Discovery Education Webinar Schedule
In keeping with my the math theme, I am
highlighting the Mathmateer Free (formerly Rocket Math Free) app this week. This app was created by the same guy who created the Stack the States and Stack the Countries apps.
Mathmateer Free (formerly Rocket Math Free) By Dan RussellPinson
Dates
Time (EST)
11/12
7pm 8pm
DE Science Elementary 101: Learn how to access and use reading passages and their accompanying eBooks, our interactive glossary, fundamentals, video segments, and 5-minute preps and more!
11/13
7pm 8pm
Discovery Education’s Social Studies Techbook: Experience the latest offering from Discovery Education designed to bring Social Studies instruction to the 21st century. Learn how to bring social studies alive through the use of digital media, primary and secondary sources and interactive tools.
11/13
7pm 8pm
What’s the 4-1-1? Teachers, Technology and the Common Core: Join us as we examine practical strategies for using digital content and technologies to engage students in today’s 21st Century classrooms.
11/13
8pm 9pm
Students as Curators: Managing New Information in the Digital Classroom: Join us as we explore a new category of web-based tools, tools for curating information, and see how these tools allow students to work together.
11/14
7pm 8pm
Somersaulting the Classroom: Experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model? The Somersaulting the Classroom approach is for educators who have a desire to integrate the flipped teaching strategy, but are not quite ready to burst into a total flip.
11/15
7pm 8pm
Building Your Lesson With Discovery Education Science Techbook: Join the Discovery Education Science Techbook team as we build a media-infused science lesson presentation that you can use in your classroom. Each month we will demonstrate how to create a truly engaging lesson presentation using digital resources and PowerPoint/ Keynote
After building and customizing your rocket you take your crew on a number of different missions, solving math problems along the way. From their site: Play one of the many fun math missions. Each mission has touchable objects floating in space, including stars, coins, 3D shapes and more! Earn a bronze, silver or gold medal and also try to beat your high score. Missions range in difficulty from even/odd numbers all the way to square roots, so kids and their parents will enjoy hours of fun while learning math. MATH MISSIONS: ▸ Numbers ▸ Telling Time ▸ U.S. Money ▸ 3D Shapes ▸ Arithmetic
Questions/Comments? I’d love to hear from you email me at matt_monjan@discovery.com or Tweet me at @monjan
Here is the link to access the app.
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