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All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources

#146 – Reflections and Projections

The Unpacking Education team recounts the themes that stand out from this past year in education and anticipates the topics and trends they feel will be important in the year to come.

Unpacking Education 20 min Grades K-12, K-12 Resource by:

#145 – Q and A Tools

Review four digital question-and-answer tools and six ideas for integrating these tools into your classroom.

Tech Talk For Teachers 6 min Resource by:

#144 – The 12 Months of Podcasts: Greatest Hits of 2022

The Unpacking Education team counts down 12 of their favorite memories from this past year of podcast episodes.

Unpacking Education 11 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#143 – Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship

Betty Gessesse from Amazon shares an overview of the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and program.

Tech Talk For Teachers 6 min Resource by:

#141 – Fun Holiday Brain Breaks

Explore four digital tools and strategies that you can use to provide your students with holiday-related brain breaks.

Tech Talk For Teachers 7 min Resource by:

Ed Tip: Activities to Reconnect Students Before and After a Break

Use these resources to reinforce classroom community and inject some fun into the days before and after breaks from school.

Ed Tips 3 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

#139 – Sharing Holiday Traditions

Explore ways to celebrate and honor the holiday traditions of all your students by empowering them to share their stories.

Tech Talk For Teachers 7 min Resource by:

#138 – Beginning and Sustaining a Career in Education, with Kathy Koszegi

Listen to the experience of Kathy Koszegi, a new teacher, and discover ways to both support and retain promising new teachers.

Unpacking Education 38 min Grades 3-12 Resource by:

#137 – Ways to Capture and Annotate Digital Images

Explore several ways to capture and annotate digital images as well as two ideas for integrating this process into your classroom.

Tech Talk For Teachers 9 min Resource by:

Ed Tip: Coding for Kids

Use these resources to introduce your students to computer coding and problem-solving skills.

Ed Tips 2 min Grades K-12 Resource by:

New “Basic Skills” Computational Thinking Unplugged

Students will explore and practice the four key computational thinking skills and connect those skills to their future-ready toolbox.

Lesson 95 min Grades 9-12 Resource by:

Coding C.H.O.M.P.

This lesson introduces students to coding while connecting cause–effect thinking with prior knowledge about healthy food choices.

Lesson 50 min Grades 3-6 Resource by:

Smartphones & Your Carbon Footprint

In this lesson, students will digitally explore the environmental impact generated through the manufacture and use of cell phones across the world, make personal connections to the learning, and develop a plan to reduce their own carbon footprint.

Lesson 75 min Grades 9-12 Resource by:

Let’s Clean!

Students will use design thinking and computational thinking to complete the task of cleaning a room.

Lesson 65 min Grades K-2 Resource by:

#136 – Computer Science Education Week and the Importance of Computational Thinking, with Kiki Prottsman

Kiki Prottsman unpacks computational thinking and practical ways that teachers can recognize Computer Science Education Week with their students.

Unpacking Education 38 min Grades K-12 Resource by: