Natural selection, the process by which heritable traits become more common in a population over generations, is a cornerstone of biology.  This vitally important concept is often difficult for students to fully grasp, however,  because it is abstract and cannot be observed in the laboratory.  Consequently, students’ understanding of natural selection is often vocabulary-driven at [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]