Critical+Thinking+with+Digital+Content+(E)

=Overview = The Information Age has swept in voluminous amounts of Internet based, multi-media resources that can be used for solving problems, communicating, and processing information in the K-12 classroom. Engaging and effective educators who use and/or teach with the digital content directly support their students mastery of Common Core standards.

In this session you will be exposed to a variety of digital content repositories that directly support learner outcomes. You will evaluate 2 selected digital resources that you will be able to use to enhance your teaching.

Learning Outcomes
After this session, Cardinal Gibbons staff will be able to:
 * leverage select digital content repositories that can be used in your learning and teaching practices;
 * better evaluate the alignment to CC and presence of Information and Technology Essential Standards in selected digital content resources.

Cross Curricular Web Based Resources

 * Curriki ** - is a play on the words 'curriculum' and 'wiki', is a not-for-profit organization that is building the first and only Internet site for Open Source Curriculum (OSC), which provides universal access to free curricula and instructional materials grades K-12.


 * Smithsonian Channel - **is a joint venture of the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime explores the history of our planet, life and culture.


 * Thinkfinity **- offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources across ALL content areas. The resources are grade-specific and are aligned with and CC.


 * Gooru ** - This free resource library of **standards-aligned** collections helps educators access rich, multimedia open education resources for students from grade five through high school.Teachers and Students accounts.


 * Internet Archive ** - is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books

Humanities / Literacy Resources |

 * American Memory ** - from the Library of Congress, provides free media, content and "Today in ** History ** " links for all grade levels.

**DocsTeach **  - thousands of **historical documents** from the National Archives. Plus, ready-to-use activities to pair with the documents. Search by historical era or make your own activity.

** NYPL Digital Gallery **  - provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, **historical** maps, vintage posters, rare **prints**, **photos** and more. ** ReadWriteThink ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - provides educators with best practices and interactive resources for reading, literacy, research, inquiry and analysis, organizing and summarizing, etc. Organized by themes, grade level, and ability.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Zinn Education Project ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"> - offers free, downloadable U.S. History lessons and articles organized by theme, time period and reading level.

Sciences Tools and Resources |
**EdHeads.org** - is an online resource providing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; vertical-align: baseline;"> engaging web simulations and activities. Current activities focus on **simulated surgical procedures**, cell phone **design** (with market research), simple and compound **machines**, and **weather prediction**.

**HippoCampus.org** - includes free educational resources including video presentations and test prep for **Math** and **Science** high school curriculum.


 * MEDtropolis ** - features access to ** health ** calculators and the multimedia ** virtual body ** tour with drag-and-drop activities.

**PhET** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - provides dozens of fantastic simulations for **physics**, **chemistry** and **biology**. The website also includes a collection of teacher contributed activities, lab experiences, homework assignments and conceptual questions that can be used with the simulations. **SciShow** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; vertical-align: baseline;">- is all about teaching **scientific** concepts in an accessible and easy-to-understand manner. This YouTube channel includes a variety of short (3 minute) and long (10 minute) videos. New videos are released weekly.


 * <span style="color: #329945; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">Math Tools and Resources | **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Illuminations] is the comprehensive source for instruction and learning materials based on [|The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics]Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">This resource provides engaging, interesting and challenging interactive applets, standards-based lesson plans and other teacher resources.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Wolfram is an extensive mathematics dictionary resource.

PBS Learning Media contains video clips that can be used to share everyday mathematics examples.

<span style="color: #329945; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">II. Explore and Evaluate Digital Content <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> | 45 minutes
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please select ** ONE **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> resource from the Cross Curricular section and **ONE** resource from the content specific sections above that peak your interest and you want to explore more. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you explore the resources please use the **Google Form below** to guide your exploration and evaluation of 2 different resources. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you would like to find a partner with similar interests and explore your selections together that would be great! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">media type="custom" key="24170274"

<span style="color: #329945; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">III. Reflection <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> | 10 minutes
What resource did you find that you particularly liked? What resource will help you present content to your students? Share you ideas here.