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Integrate Visual Learning with Kidspiration<sup>&reg;</sup> 3 into your Curriculum

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Created 08/07/2008 - 17:59


Overviews
Kidspiration Quick Tour [2] Interactive Whiteboard Support [3]


Quick Tour system requirements [4]
 






How to Use
Picture View [5] Writing View [6] Math View [7]

Atomic Learning offers several additional tutorials for PC users [8] and Mac users [9].





On-demand Webinars
Keep Your Students Learning Till the Final Bell with Kidspiration 3
Keep your K-5 grade students learning right up until that final bell with a hassle-free end of the year project. Get tips on how to keep your students engaged and celebrate a successful school year while they plan, write and publish a yearbook.
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Teaching STEM and 21st Century Skills with Kidspiration®
Students in the first grade this year will graduate in the year 2020. Will they have the skills necessary for success in the 21st Century? According to the State Educational Technology Directors Association's (SETDA) recently released Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education, early exposure to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) is critical to success in the 21st century and should be integrated throughout the curriculum for all children starting in kindergarten.
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Learn to Use Kidspiration®'s Visual Math Tools
Kidspiration 3 has five visual math tools to help K-5 students build their conceptual understanding in math.
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Writing to a Prompt with Kidspiration® 3
Graphic organizers are an effective tool to support students as they learn how to write to a prompt. Learn how your students can learn to write on demand using Kidspiration.
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Individualizing Early Literacy Instruction with Kidspiration®
Learn how Kidspiration supports the teaching and learning of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development and reading comprehension, all components of effective reading instruction.
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Making Sense of Fractions with New Math Tools in Kidspiration
Use fraction tiles, pattern blocks, color tiles, base ten blocks and fraction boxes to develop conceptual understanding of fractions. Represent and compare fractions; add and subtract with like and unlike denominators; and work with mixed numbers, improper and equivalent fractions.
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Click here [11] for the Kidspiration webcasts.





Curriculum Applications
Reading
Beginning Sounds [12] Listening Comprehension [13] Early Reading Comprehension [14] Read Across America with Dr. Seuss [15] Read for the Record with Corduroy [16]
Writing
Using Pictures to Write a Story [17] Growing Vocabulary in Writing [18] Teaching Word Choice [19] A Poem in Your Pocket [20]
Math
Counting with Tiles [21] Addition with Regrouping [22] Subtraction with Regrouping [23] Multiplication with Base Ten Blocks [24] Area Models for Multiplication [25] Modeling Division [26]
Math - Fractions
Pattern Block Fractions [27] Modeling Fractions [28] Exploring Equivalent Fractions [29] Common Denominators [30] Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators [31] Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions [32]
Thinking Skills
Categorizing Information [33] Comparing People and Places [34] Making Decisions [35] Similarities and Differences [36]
Science
How Do You Use Energy? [37] Research on Climate Change [38]
Other Activities
A Celebration of St. Patrick's Day Across the Curriculum [39] Activities for Earth Day [40] Activities for Cinco de Mayo [41]




Get QuickTime [42]

 

Textbook Connections: Many leading education textbook publishers have chosen graphic organizers as a core strategy to improve learning outcomes. They use graphic organizers within textbooks to present new information and concepts, and they give recommendations on how to use graphic organizers with student activities in their teacher guides and classroom materials. Access these resources here [43].

 

Visit the Inspired Learning Community™ [44] for curriculum integration ideas created by educators.

Source URL: http://www.inspiration.com/Curriculum-Integration/Kidspiration

Links:
[1] http://www.inspiration.com/
[2] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Kids_3.flv
[3] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Whiteboard_QuickTour.mov
[4] http://www.inspiration.com/Help-Center/Kidspiration#Quick-Tour
[5] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Kidspiration_PictureView.flv
[6] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Kidspiration_WritingView.flv
[7] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Kidspiration_MathView.flv
[8] http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/kids3pc
[9] http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/kids3mac
[10] http://www.inspiration.com/Curriculum-Integration/Kidspiration
[11] http://www.inspiration.com/webcasts/Kidspiration
[12] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/BeginningSounds.mov
[13] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/UsingPicturesToCheckComprehension.mov
[14] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/EarlyReading.flv
[15] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/ReadAcrossAmerica.mov
[16] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/ReadfortheRecord.mov
[17] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/UsingPicturesToWriteAStory.mov
[18] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/GrowingVocabularyInWriting.mov
[19] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/WordChoice.mov
[20] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/poeminpocket.mov
[21] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/CountingWithTiles.mov
[22] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Adding_and_Regrouping.mov
[23] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Subtraction with Regrouping.mov
[24] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Multiplication with Base Ten Blocks.mov
[25] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Area Models for Multiplication.mov
[26] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Modeling Division.mov
[27] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/BuildingFractionswithPatternBlocks.mov
[28] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Modeling Fractions.mov
[29] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/ExploringEquivalentFractions.mov
[30] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/CommonDenominators.mov
[31] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Adding Fractions.mov
[32] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/MixedNumbersandImproperFractions.mov
[33] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Categorizing Information.mov
[34] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Comparing People and Places.mov
[35] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/MakingDecisions.mov
[36] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/Similarities and Differences.mov
[37] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/HowDoYouUseEnergy.flv
[38] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/ClimateChange.flv
[39] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/StPatricksDay.mov
[40] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/EarthDay.mov
[41] http://download.inspiration.com/videos/CincodeMayo.mov
[42] http://www.inspiration.com/Quick-Time
[43] http://www.inspiration.com/About-Us/Partners#Textbook-Connections
[44] http://www.inspiration.com/community