Create your own fantasy maps with these generators
Source: Maps Mania: Fantasy Map Generators
Need to generate a city or land map for activities in your classroom? Then check out this list of Fantasy Map Generators
Source: Maps Mania: Fantasy Map Generators
Need to generate a city or land map for activities in your classroom? Then check out this list of Fantasy Map Generators
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Researchers have been investigating the novelty effect for decades. It started in the 1930s at the Wawthorne Works factory. The factory wanted to see if changed the lighting improved productivity. It turns out…
Building a catapult that can hit a target at one, three and five meters is a core project of Ben Smith’s engineering class. When the project is assigned, groups get to work inventing a mechanism that will meet the objectives, often coming up with ingenious ideas. But when Smith noticed his students were increasingly asking…
Amazon released a new Kindle this week, the Oasis. At 3.4MM thick and 4.6 ounces in weight, it is over half the weight of an iPad mini and almost 50% thinner (44.3% if you want to be pendantic). The downside is that it is $290. But, who buys a black and white Kindle? Readers I…
Create Random Assignments is a Google Apps script that takes a spreadsheet of questions and student names and creates random assignments. Once added to Google Chrome and you’ve authorized the script, your ready to get started! The author has a complete help sheet available to get you started with using the script.
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On a recent late-night formula run, I passed by a large display of books about teaching children to code. I have seen these books around, but never such a large display directed toward elementary-aged children. These books are part of a flood of resources—summer coding camps, after-school code clubs, apps designed to teach kindergarteners the…