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Resource Update: Scratch Unit in Spanish

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Several of our middle school math courses, including algebra-geometry and CMP, have used Scratch to teach fundamental programming concepts.  Sergio González, a math teacher working at the Luis de Camoens school in Ceuta, Spain, recently updated and translated our six day algebra-geometry unit into Spanish, created video tutorials for some of the lessons, and assembled [...]

Video Book Trailers

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Book trailers, short video clips designed to entice viewers to read the book they are based upon, can be an effective tool for engaging students with age-appropriate literature. Our fifth grade language arts students recently completed a book trailer project using Photo Story 3 for Windows and shared their final products on their class blog. [...]