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S’Cool Tools
5 Great Tools to Perk Up Your Classroom
and Engage Your Students
Maureen Brown Yoder
Whether you’re a kindergarten teacher trying
to find a new way to help your students learn
about shapes and patterns or a high school
science teacher hoping to bring ecology alive,
we have a tool that could be just right for you.
5 Steps to an Accessible
Classroom Website
Linda Amundson
Can you gather information from your classroom
website with your eyes closed or the sound turned
off? Can you navigate the pages without using a
mouse? Follow this plan to open up your website
to a community of diverse users.
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Students Without Borders
Global Collaborative Learning Connects School
to the Real World
Mali Bickley and Jim Carleton
Kids can’t help but get engaged when they’re collaborating
with peers across the globe to solve real-life problems.
These cross-curriculum, classroom-tested projects will
inspire your students to make a difference while learning
about the wide world around them.
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