All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Review the four elements of computational thinking and how you can use these during Computer Science Education Week.

Discover three online note-taking tools as well as three integration ideas for using these with video in your classroom.

Use the four parts of the BIAS acronym to guide your students in identifying bias.

Dr. John Spencer helps us unpack the benefits of empowering students and introduces us to the LAUNCH process as a classroom strategy.

Review five strategies for marking up digital text as well as five digital annotation tools.

Dr. John Spencer shares strategies for empowering students while also identifying the benefits to our classroom and our students.

Explore five digital mind mapping tools as well as seven strategies for using these in your classroom.