70+ Common Core Projects

Description

How to Achieve Common Core with Tech is a four-volume series that focuses on using technology to meet Common Core standards in Language, Writing, Reading, and Math (in the future: Speaking/Listening). Consider these expectations from Common Core (truncated for brevity):

• Expect students to demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding to type a minimum of one page [two by fifth grade] in a single sitting
• Expect students to evaluate different media (e.g., print or digital …)
• Expect students to gather relevant information from print and digital sources
• Expect students to integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats
• Expect students to interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., … interactive elements on Web pages)
• Expect students to make strategic use of digital media
• Expect students to use glossaries or dictionaries, both print and digital …
• Expect students to use information from illustrations and words in print or digital text
• Expect students to use a variety of media in communicating ideas
• Expect students to use technology and digital media strategically and capably
• Expect students to use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information

…and this Common Core note:

New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Digital texts confront students with the potential for continually updated content and dynamically changing combinations of words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded video and audio.

Each volume in this series shows you what technology to use and when without taking a lot of extra time out of your crowded schedule. You see how to use computers, websites, tablets, graphic art, infographics, web widgets to scaffold what you already teach–easy-to-understand tech tools, no more complicated than the iPads and manipulatives you already use.

Each lesson includes

1. Common Core standards addressed
2. NETS-S Standards addressed
3. Vocabulary used 
4. Time Required
5. Grade level recommended and suggested background
6. Essential Question
7. Big Idea
8. Materials required and teacher preparation
9. Step-by-step directions
10. Help with tech problems
11. Extensions—how to differentiate and dig deeper

A note: These books are not intended to teach Common Core Standards. What these books show is how to use technology to teach.