Playing To The Positive Tweets of the Day 11/27/12

 

1. Resources and Downloads for College and Career Readiness

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-college-career-resources?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=stw&utm_campaign=mc2resources 

2. “They held onto those books like little treasures.”

http://blog.firstbook.org/2012/11/26/they-held-onto-those-books-like-little-treasures/ 

3. Favorite Games for Fun and Learning

http://special-ism.com/favorite-games-for-fun-and-learning/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

4. Civic Education: A Forgotten Subject in the World of High Stakes Testing

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/11/civic-education-a-forgotten-subject-in-the-world-of-high-stakes-testing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

5. Physics in the Hands of a Seven-Year-Old

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/physics-in-the-hands-of-a-seven-year-old/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

6. High School Graduation Rates By State: U.S. Department Of Education Releases First-Ever National Data 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/high-school-graduation-ra_n_2194378.html 

7.  7 Things You Don't Know About A Special Needs Parent 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-lin/special-needs-parenting_b_1314348.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false 

 

Science Is Awesomehttps://www.facebook.com/ScienceIsSeriouslyAwesome

Marie Curie, the French-Polish physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She remains the only person to ever receive two Nobel prizes in two separate sciences.

The World Is Our Classroom Tweets of the Morning 11/21/12

http://collaborationwithoutboundaries.edublogs.org/category/melody-watson/

1. 5 Ways to Inspire Students Through Global Collaboration

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/5-ways-to-inspire-students-through-global-collaboration/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

2. Easing into Thanksgiving

http://special-ism.com/communication-expert-louise-sattler-reports-easing-in-to-thanksgiving/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

3. Want to Meet One of My Heroines?

http://www.ahaparenting.com/_blog/Parenting_Blog/post/Want_to_Meet_One_of_My_Heroines/ 

4. Reading Like a Historian: Contextualization (Uncut)

Grades 9-12, History, Philosophy 
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/reading-like-a-historian-contextualization-complete-lesson/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=post11201201&utm_campaign=fbt 

5. 4 Overlooked Prewriting Features

http://special-ism.com/4-overlooked-prewriting-features/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

6. Freedom on the Edge: Civic Education’s Role in Preserving Democracy

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/11/freedom-on-the-edge-civic-educations-role-in-preserving-democracy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

7.  Head Start Programs Offer Benefits, Improve Child Well-Being And School Readiness: Report 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/advisory-committee-review_n_2159585.html 

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