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Resources for Elementary Teachers MARCH 6 - 13

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The Detective's Notebook Game

Grade Range: K-2, 3-5

Get your students to think about what they are reading. This interactive has students access an amateur detective's notebook to find clues, make inferences, and predict through logical thinking.

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Electric Company: Feel Electric App

Grade Range: PreK-2

This new app helps your students explore emotions. Part of the "Finding the Right Word" initiative, this app offers engaging tolls that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression.

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Mission US:

Flight to Freedom

Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8

Part interactive, part choose your own adventure, and all amazing history, Mission US allows your students to immerse themselves in American history like nothing else. The game's structure allows students to take completely different routes and end up completing the game and interpreting history in divergent ways.

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Wild Kratts: All About Lizards

Grade Range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8

Lizards represent a large group of reptiles with thousands of different species. Each lizard has characteristics that help it live and thrive in its particular environment. These activities will enable students to explore the diversity of lizards in terms of characteristics and behavior, and help them identify special characteristics of each lizard that allows it to thrive in its habitat.

Register today for these ICN sessions, at no charge to you or your school, to network your students with other learners throughout the state.

Mandatory Reporter Training: Suspected Child and Dependent Adult Abuse (Educator Session)
Amazing Reptiles (K-5): Join conservationists to learn more about these misunderstood animals.
Engaging Early Learners and Families with Math Content (Educator Session): Learn some easy ways to engage kids in math and literacy.

Can't make it to any of these sessions? Take a look at IPTV's ICN events calendar to schedule your next opportunity.

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Extract Your Own DNA

Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Behold your very own DNA in this do-it-yourself science experiment.

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