Discover how tech tools and strategies can improve teaching and learning in your science classroom.
Tech Integration Can Ignite Science in Your Classroom
Grade Level: 6-8
Apply and Extend Science Skills and Concepts With Virtual Simulations, Labs, and Interactive Science Materials
Explore virtual science tools that can empower students in your science classroom to engage in or create simulations, labs, and interactive science materials in a digital environment.
Find and Explore Resources to Help Plan Science Lessons
Browse and discover lesson-planning resources to help you plan, create, and amplify your science lessons.
Play Games and Explore Videos to Increase Science Learning and Engagement
Discover how the intentional use of science games and videos in your classroom can activate and expand thinking and learning.
Apply and Extend Science Skills and Concepts Through Virtual Field Trips, Real-World Science Applications, Coding, and Computational Thinking
Browse the many options available to go on virtual field trips, become a citizen scientist, extend computer science skills, and develop computational thinking skills.
Ed Tip: Games
Use these digital versions of popular board games to have students interact, connect, and practice critical thinking.
Ed Tip: Exit Tickets
Use these premade exit ticket templates to check in with your students at the end of a lesson and see how they are doing academically and emotionally.
Tutoring With Inquiry Instead of Answers
Integrate inquiry into each phase of your tutorial process to help students develop multiple skills while owning their learning.
Amplify Social Studies and History Education with Technology
Consider how technology has made the instruction of social studies and history more important than ever and how you can best prepare your students for life in a technology-infused world.
Social Studies Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
Examine four strategies and skills that you can use to help your students develop questions and plan inquiries.
Social Studies Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
Explore digital resources that you can integrate into your civics, economics, history, and geography classroom.
Social Studies Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
Explore five ways to empower your students to critically evaluate resources and effectively use them as evidence.
Ed Tip: Categorizing
Students can use these versatile graphic organizers to process and categorize concepts and ideas in any academic content area.
Ed Tip: Community Building
Use these activities and templates to facilitate the building of community and classroom relationships.
Social Studies Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action
Explore a multitude of ways that students can use audio, video, text, images, and multimedia to communicate conclusions, demonstrate what they’ve learned, and take action based on that learning.