Jamie Dooley and Jack Brenchley created this video to help teachers learn how to set-up their presentation stations' duel monitors and how to set-up the audio equipment in classrooms and through Zoom.

Jack Brenchley has created a handout walking teachers through the process of copying an existing Canvas course into a new semester or school year.

Jonathan Cowan, Centennial Middle School teacher, created this video for creating cohort seating charts for hybrid classrooms.

The district has set-up your account for Zoom. While working at home you can access Zoom through HelloID. If you haven't used HelloID from your home before then go to https://www.sno.wednet.edu/Page/2091 and click on HelloID. You will have to login to HelloID from home.

Snohomish School District's Zoom resources for classroom teachers. Thank you, Scott Bracken.

Zoom Tips for teachers. April 2020.

Here is the link on Setting Up Zoom App on Your Phone.

Click here for a short YouTube video on how to use Zoom for beginners.  The important part of this video is when they discuss how to record your video and save it as a MP4 file. The MP4 file is saved to your computer.  Upload this MP4 file to your Canvas account, or teacher web page. This is a great way to create your short 10-15 minute lesson introductions for your students. You can then send your students a link to this video for them to watch before they start their lesson.

Click here to view Zoom's own tutorial videos.  They have a wide range of tutorials for various aspects of their product.

Click here to go to the University of California at San Diego's Zoom User Guide 

Click here to read an article on 10 tips on how to get the most out of Zoom from USA Today 

Click here to go to Zoom Short Cuts 

This link is to a grades 9-12 digital citizenship curriculum.

High School activities include:

Teen Voices: Who Are You on Social Media?
Teen Voices: Friendships and Boundaries
Teen Voices: Hate Speech Online
When is Your Brian Ready for Social Media?
Is the Internet Making You Meaner?
Screen Time: How Much is Too Much?
Civil Discourse Online

29 lessons/resources for 9-12 grades.

Digital Citizenship and distance learning support.

This University of Washington group has created media literacy lessons in the areas of sex education and the media, nutrition and the media, teen health and the media, teens, tabacco and media, nutrition and health, and violence and media.

This web site includes tips for making media literacy more relevant to students and links to helpful media literacy web sites.

Additional resource links on Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy from Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Click here to down load Phishing Power Point Presentation

This free download allows students to create, alter and run physics and engineering simulations.

8 pages of elementary to high school level at home maker projects ranging from art to science.

All projects can be made with low-cost or recycled materials.  Check out the project library for STWM-rich ideas.

This archive of experiments is curated into collections, easy to use and share, and require little or no equipment.

A favorite site for science teachers and kids.  This site investigates everything from skateboard engineering to cookie subduction.

This site partners educators with scientists to create free STEM activities.

Though Scratch program ended in 2019 this site includes an archive of activities for hundreds of math and visual art activities.

This list of best education apps for the classroom can be found at your app store.

Earthviewer - dive into earth's deep history, explore biodiversity, solar luminosity, and more over geologic time.  Files can be downloaded for offline viewing.  App is iOS only.

Equity Maps - tool for tracking class discussion and individual participation.

iCell - provides 3D representation of animal, bacteria and plant cells.  Students can rotate perspectives.

iCivics - suite  gamifying civic education.  Two examples: Win the White House & Immigration Command.

Mixerpiece - choose from 300 famous artwork images to create your own.

Novel Effect - uses voice recognition to compliment read-alouds with sound effects and music.

Sites in VR - virtual tours of landmarks, places, and planets.

Stop Motion - try your hand at stop-motion animation.  Enables frame-by-frame editing, sound effects, titling, painting with layers, and more.

Tynker - empowers students to learn code through play.  Solve engaging puzzles, modify Minecraft worlds, program robots and drones, create custom games, and build and animate characters.

Click here to download the Microsoft Word scope and sequence skills
Click here to download the Microsoft Word 9-12 grade level targets

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Flipgrid now has new and improved features: accessibility/transcription and closed captioning, Shorts Camera for super-enhanced storytelling capability including stitching together video clips which can be embedded in Teams and One Note, and GridPals to search for other users with common interests.

Newseum will be closing in January 2020.  However, their Today's Front Pages of 1,000 newspapers will continue to exist.

As history teachers, you know the State Legislature in 2015 passed a law requiring history teachers to incorporate Native American lessons in history courses, and to specifically tie this integration with local tribes.  This link takes you to the high school curriculum developed by OSPI.

There are several links listed under this section at OSPI.  There are videos, lessons, primary documents, and a listing of Native American tribes you may contact.  Scan the left side of this web page for tabs that will take you to these additional sources.

This free science series provides lessons, handouts and video clips on space, weather and climate.

February is Black History Month.  This year, the first week in February is being dedicated to Black Lives Matter.  This web link provides lesson plans and resources to help teachers incorporate Black Lives Matter into Black History Month.

A bibliography of resources for exploring the historical context of racial violence in the United States.