Educational Links 8/16/17

Celebrate the Solar Eclipse with these Classroom Resources

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2017/08/14/celebrate-the-solar-eclipse-with-these-classroom-resources/

Technology in the Classroom: How to Assess Writing

http://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-how-assess-writing

Five Tips to Encourage Positive Classroom Culture

https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2017/08/11/five-tips-class-culture-new-tch/

How Ethnic Studies Connects Learning With Students’ Identities

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/08/14/how-ethnic-studies-connects-learning-with-students-identities/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Behavior Therapy Benefits Parents Too, Study Finds

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2017/08/15/behavior-therapy-parents-too/24034/

Children Learn Best From Storybooks When Characters Are Realistic

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/08/15/children-learn-best-from-storybooks-when-characters-are-realistic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

The Impact of Student-Created Apps

https://www.edutopia.org/article/impact-student-created-apps?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

In addition to all the marketing, graphic design, website building, and content creation activities that take place when you create an app, the students are learning brainstorming and social entrepreneurship.