Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
This Earth Day, let’s look at our Home Sweet Home with Google Earth. Learning about climate change? Check out these Timelapse Videos Explore America’s National Parks and introduce Every Kid Outdoors, the NPS program that offers free park admission to Continue reading Google Earth for Earth Day
Throughout the year students are researching, but it seems like this is often the time of year when culminating research projects are happening. We thought this would be a good time to focus on all the tools we have at Continue reading Tools for Researching
iPads can be used in creative and meaningful ways in Bend-La Pine classrooms. To help encourage best practices around technology use, let’s reflect on how iPads can best be used during the school day. Below are ideas to help prevent Continue reading Prevent Passive iPad Time
Screen Time allows users to set app limits, content restrictions, downtime, and a variety of other helpful tools for staying on track. One caution: Screen Time settings can affect what our students can access in class, which sometimes gets in Continue reading Making Screen Time Work For You
As of today, we now have over 1800 comics and graphic novel titles that were just added to Sora! This is a new package and the best part is that they are all simultaneous use which means that students and Continue reading Comics are Live in Sora!
You may be familiar with the studies connecting the dangers of social media and the teenage brain. As the mother of two teenagers myself, these reports have played a role in my own thoughts about it. As my kids saw Continue reading Instagram Ready?
For the month of March, you will be seeing several posts here on the topic of Digital Citizenship. This is a topic that we all know is important, yet many of us have a hard time finding time to fit Continue reading Digital Citizenship Made Simple
When you Google Black History Month, you’ll most likely see the name, Carter G. Woodson, known as the “Father of Black History”. In 1915, he created the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Then in 1926, he Continue reading February is Black History Month