Get Help With Common Core: Win This Week’s Prize!
Posted by Karen on 10 Dec 2012 | Posted in: Alliance to Feed the Future, Discovery Education, Hachette, IFAW, Jossey-Bass, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Siemens, Special Olympics
Are you comfortable with Common Core? Here’s help! Win Common Core Curriculum Maps, a new three-book set from Jossey-Bass. This series covers English Language Arts for grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The maps organize each school year into thematic units that identify key standards, student objectives, recommended texts, sample activities, and more. Each unit also contains a sample lesson plan. The maps address all the standards in the CCSS and include grade-by-grade checklists showing which standards are covered in which unit.
To enter our drawing, submit a comment to our blog by 11:59 PM ET on Monday, December 17, 2012. In your comment, be sure to tell us how you’re feeling about Common Core and why you’d like to win our prize. One lucky teacher will receive our prize. (Update: congratulations to Betsy, who was this week’s winner!) Then check out our other fabulous freebies and amazing offers as well!
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Here’s another source of help with Common Core: the International Fund for Animal Welfare is offering free worksheets and activities that align to Common Core. Activities are for grades K-2 and 3-5 and cover favorite animals such as bears, dolphins, and elephants. New activities are released each month! Click here now to sign up for the IFAW Animal Ambassador program and access the free materials. Take a look!
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You’ve heard of STEM, but what about STEAM? i.am.STEAM is a youth engagement initiative that brings science, technology, engineering, art, and math education to life for students nationwide—inspiring and cultivating the next generation of problem solvers, innovators, and leaders. Join in on a virtual field trip to explore the Mars rover Curiosity THIS WEDNESDAY, December 12, at 1 PM. It’s sponsored by i.am.angel foundation and Discovery Education. Sign up now at www.discoveryeducation.com/iamsteam.
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Take a humor break with I Funny, the newest book from James Patterson. On sale today, the book tells the story of Jamie Grimm, a middle schooler with a mission. Jamie wants to be the world’s best stand-up comedian. But he doesn’t have much to laugh about these days! Click here to learn more about the book or to listen to a free excerpt.
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Enter to WIN a $2,500 classroom grant! Professor Eatwell’s Great Giveaway includes one $2,500 grant, three $1,000 grants, and three $500 grants for teachers. Grants are to use in teaching students about convenient and healthful food choices and modern food production. Hurry, this contest ends this month. Don’t miss out! Click here to enter now!
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Teach life lessons with free online games from Special Olympics. Designed for general education classrooms, these games teach students important lessons about perseverance, respect, and trust plus give them a glimpse inside Special Olympics. Click here now to access the games and other free materials.
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Win an interactive science assembly for your school! Two lucky classes in grades K-6 will win in the Siemens Science Day Ultimate Cool School Sweepstakes. Enter daily now through February 28, 2013. Plus you’ll find free science resources, including more than 80 hands-on activities and videos, best practice guides, and more. Check it out!
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This resource would be a great start for the staff at my school to help wrap our brains around sequencing the teaching and recording of the Common Core. Our district has implemented the use of a common core report card with self direction of how these skills should be assessed and when. Our teachers meet every three weeks to dive deeper into each of the standards and what they really mean for the students and their teaching in both Math and Literacy. This resource would be a godsend for this planning and would be the springboard our teachers need to catapult us in the direction we are currently stalled in.
I would love the CC resource book and would put it to good use as I incorporate the CCSS this year!
I would love to have the common core resource book to share with all my coworkers!!! So far, I love the common core.