This site presents tech tools and resources by subject matter (including music, art, PE, SPED, world language, and core content) so teachers are easily able to peruse and choose a resource applicable to their specific subject area.
This site presents tech tools and resources by subject matter (including music, art, PE, SPED, world language, and core content) so teachers are easily able to peruse and choose a resource applicable to their specific subject area.
Northborough Elementary Resources
This site presents tech tools and resources by subject matter (including music, art, PE, SPED, world language, and core content) so teachers are easily able to peruse and choose a resource applicable to their specific subject area.
This slide show was created by the Digital Literacy Leaders in 2020 and has tips about Canvas, Google Classroom, Google Apps for Education, PearDeck and much more
The Creative Computing Curriculum, designed by the Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a collection of ideas, strategies, and activities for an introductory creative computing experience using Scratch.
Google offers creative, video-based lessons to prepare students for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Here are some examples of lesson topics: Make Art with Google Sheets, Write an If-Then adventure Story with Google Slides, Make a Promotional Flyer with Google Drawings...
Interland is an adventure-packed online game that makes learning about digital safety and citizenship interactive and fun—just like the Internet itself. Here, kids will help their fellow Internauts combat badly behaved hackers, phishers, oversharers, and bullies by practicing the skills they need to be good digital citizens.
Use these short, self-guided activities to create a positive culture around digital learning.
The District has programmable robots (BeeBots, Dash, Ozobots, Ollies) and other physical computing tools (makey makey, lego robotics kits) available for teacher use. Click to explore all the options and to see examples of how these can be used in the classroom
Practical, “use it in class tomorrow” solutions to teachers’ classroom needs.
Common Sense Research and Citation Tools
Students are always needing to effectively gather, study, and cite sources for their essays and projects. As teachers know, the internet has made this process both more fruitful and more complicated. The Wild West of the web requires students to think more critically about sources and more effectively organize all the different kinds of things they find -- both digital and physical. These picks will show students how to go beyond Google to find credible, usable scholarly resources, and then to unpack and use these sources to fuel awesome essays and projects. To this end, on this list you'll find top-rated tools for not just collecting sources but annotating and citing them.
Getting Unstuck is a 10-module intermediate Scratch curriculum to help your students develop greater creative and conceptual fluency with code. The curriculum reimagines the classroom as a design studio: a culture of learning in which students explore, create, share, and reflect. Get started with the curriculum by reading the orientation, then explore the modules.
CSforMA Professional Development Opportunities
Canvas Educator Course on Copyright and Fair Use
Customized District Partnerships