by Eboni Hogan | Jun 12, 2018 | High School Teachers, Playlists, Resources, Social Studies Teachers, Teacher Tips, Teacher Voice
Captivate your classroom with these teaching “playlists” which are a series of themed blended resources you can use for the diverse students in your class.
Explore each playlist by subject, or access the entire collection.
Social Studies: The Problem With Prosperity
Our world is more interconnected than ever before but globalization has vast economic, political and social repercussions.
Science: Darwinning
In our planetary thunder-dome, it’s survival of the fittest. Thanks to the tireless work of Charles Darwin, evolution isn’t just a theory anymore.
Math: Survey Says…
When applied responsibly, data collection can uncover many truths. See how statistical studies shape our world.
English: What’s Your Point?
An author’s purpose isn’t always so clearly defined but with a little investigating, we can unearth their motives.
By: Eboni Hogan, Content Specialist
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by Eboni Hogan | May 29, 2018 | English Teachers, Math Teachers, Playlists, Resources, Science Teachers, Spring School
Check out these newly curated resources for grades 6–8. Explore each playlist by subject, or access the entire collection of 6-8th grade resources here.
Welcome to the dark side of the Silk Road. Examine how interregional interactions led to the spread of the Black Death.
Your genes hold the code to everything from eye color to tongue rolling. Explore the laws of genetics and the factors that influence our traits.
Time to steamroll some shapes! This playlist explains how to create nets for 3D shapes then use them to calculate surface area.
If your students struggle with constructing essays or narratives that flow effortlessly, show them how to use transitional words and phrases.
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By: Eboni Hogan, Content Specialist
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by Eboni Hogan | May 22, 2018 | English Teachers, Math Teachers, Playlists, Resources
From earthquakes to conversion tables, we’ve put together these teaching resources specifically for 3rd-5th grade classrooms.
Instructional Playlists to Shake Things Up is a collection of themed teaching resources for all grades. You can explore each playlist by subject below, or access the entire collection here.
This playlist provides a comprehensive look at a long history of border disputes and immigration policies, while also illustrating the harrowing journey that undocumented migrants undergo in reimagining the American Dream.
Shake things up with this playlist that explores why buildings collapse during earthquakes and how earth science and engineering is converging to construct quake-proof structures.
Time to turn the tables on the metric system. These resources will help students learn how to create their own conversion tables for metric units of measure.
Turn your students into literary detectives as they discover strategies for deciphering words that they don’t know using context clues .
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By: Eboni Hogan, Content Specialist
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by Eboni Hogan | May 15, 2018 | Playlists, Resources, Social Studies Teachers
Like any good playlist, this one has been carefully arranged for K-2 classrooms, with your needs in mind. Check out each playlist by subject or click here to access the full collection.
SCIENCE: It’s Alive! (Or Is It?)
Our world is comprised of both living and non-living things. In this playlist, students learn how to tell the difference.
ENGLISH: Pluralize It
Showcase the magic of the letter S as students transform singular nouns to plurals.
MATH: Shape Shifting
Once students have mastered basic shapes, take things to the next level with these engaging resources that explore composite shapes.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Make It Or Take It
Using these resources, your students will become familiar with basic economic concepts. focusing on the interdependent relationship between producers and consumers.
By: Eboni Hogan, Content Specialist
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by Eboni Hogan | May 15, 2018 | Playlists, Resources, Social Studies Teachers
Many teachers don’t feel fully equipped to meet their students’ growing emotional needs. These resources address body positivity, bullying, depression, and more. We organized them by the developmental needs of specific age groups, spanning K-12.
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Happy social emotional learning!
By: Eboni Hogan, Content Specialist
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by Melissa Giroux | Sep 19, 2017 | Curriculum & Instruction, Playlists, Resources
Kiddom’s Planner and Timeline are curriculum development tools that work together to help you plan ahead, then modify assignments when you need to.
Your Timeline (left) and Planner (right) work together to help you plan and deliver the right materials when you need them.
You can think of Planner as a digital curriculum binder or bookshelf, storing resources like lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and videos for later use.
With Planner, you’re free to access any of the curricula you design from within any class: the activities and resources can be assigned to any student in any class.
Planner (at right) can be made up of assignments, playlists, and resources
Planner is organized to help you think about the big picture, but then dig deeper. Structurally, it’s laid out like this:
- Curriculum: This is one overarching set of units. Every new class has a “Master Curriculum” with the same name as the class. This curriculum will be shared with your co-teachers who have access to your class.
- Unit: a unit can be organized around a topic or skill, and includes playlists or individual assignments. Unit titles and descriptions are only visible to teachers — not students — as it is purely a way to organize things.
- Assignment Groups: a number of assignments that are grouped together to serve a purpose, such as remediation, self-paced instruction, differentiation, review, or by topic. The assignments in them can be assigned to students together as a set or individually.
- Assignment: When you create an assignment in Planner, you can add an attachment from your computer, Google Drive, or Kiddom’s library. You will add standards, due dates, and grading settings when you assign it to students.
What is Timeline?
Your Timeline shows you (and your students) assessments and resources that have been assigned. It shows all of the assignments you have sent to your class (or an individual student), in chronological order. You can even filter assignments that are late or you haven’t graded yet.
You can create assignments directly in Timeline, but these will only be available in the class you’re in. To be able to re-use the assignment in the future or in another class, consider creating the assignment in Planner first.
How do Planner and Timeline work together?
Once you’ve made an assignment or playlist in Planner, you can drag it over into your Timeline to assign it to an individual student, a group, or the whole class. The original assignment (or playlist) remains exactly the same in your Planner to be used again, and a copy of it is created in your Timeline. You can edit the assignment that’s in your Timeline to modify standards, rubrics, points, a due date, or more detailed instructions for your current class.
Easily drag-and-drop assignments and playlists from Planner into Timeline
Use these tools in tandem for more efficient planning, and spend more time getting to know your students, analyzing their work, and giving them feedback. Happy Planning!
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