Thinkfinity sessions

Link to files from the conference

Thinkfinity sessions, NJEA 2010 – all sessions are 45 minutes
Date	Time	Title
Thurs. 11/4	10:00 AM	Great Resources for For a Project Based Classroom

	11:00 AM	The Technology Enhanced Language Arts Classroom

	noon	Engage Struggling Students with Thinkfinity's Interactives

	1:00 PM	Holidays Around and Across the World and Cultures

	2:00 PM	Bring Language Arts into your Social Studies Classroom

	3:00 PM	Free Standards Based Resources for 21st Century Learners

	4:00 PM	Differentiated Learning with Thinkfinity Interactives

Fri. 11/5	9:00 AM	Free Standards Based Resources for 21st Century Learners

	10:00 AM	Bring Language Arts Into your Social Studies Classroom

	11:00 AM	Inquiry-based Science with Thinkfinity

	noon	Great Resources for For A Project Based Classroom

	1:00 PM	The Technology Enhanced Language Arts Classroom

	2:00 PM	Exploring Mathematics Through All Disciplines

Engage Struggling Students with Thinkfinity's Interactives Are your students confused, distracted, unwilling or unable to focus? Come explore the FREE interactive games and tools from Thinkfinity.org. See your students get excited about learning. The standards-based interactive resources reach across curricula. Select the interactives that your students can use to strengthen reading, organize thoughts, and develop writing skills. Holidays Around and Across the World and Cultures Thinkfinity.org has lessons for every holiday that you celebrate with your students. You’ll have resources for the first weeks of school, first 100 days, and testing tips. You will walk away with lesson plans, web interactives, worksheets, and a variety of other resources. Have this information available for your use as the holidays approach and enhance your curriculum. Differentiated Learning with Thinkfinity Interactives Are your students at different levels? Do your students have a wide-spectrum of strengths, interests, and needs? Give your students’ choices with the interactive games and tools on the Thinkfinity website. Pique their curiosity. Give them a chance to explore and choose. Come and familiarize yourself with Thinkfinity’s FREE standards-based interactive resources that reach across curricula. Inquiry based Science with Thinkfinity Use Thinkfinity's tens of thousands of FREE resources to strengthen classroom science programs and to enhance the way students learn science by making connections to fundamental scientific concepts and principles. Discover how Thinkfinity’s innovative and comprehensive resources will advance student science practices and content knowledge. Find out how to use Thinkfinity to extend science learning beyond the classroom and to create scientific communities involving students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Free Standards Based Resources for 21st Century Learners Thinkfinity’s free, standards-based resources will help you meet the criteria outlined in the 21st Century Skills Framework as put forth by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills. In this hands-on workshop surf through the site to see resources from Thinkfinity.org including interactives, video clips, audio clips, rubrics, handouts, and maps that will engage your digital learners. Thinkfinity provides teachers, parents, and students with quick access to the educational resources created by experts specifically for the classroom and your 21^st century students. Bring Language Arts Into your Social Studies Classroom Primary sources, video clips, pod casts, photo galleries, and interactives from Thinkfinity’s nationally renowned content partners are engaging and provocative. Make these motivating materials part of your classroom by using Thinkfinity’s comprehensive lesson plans. Incorporate these easily accessible resources in your social studies classroom while meeting language arts standards, too. Social studies teacher and New Jersey 2008 Teacher of the Year, John Kline, will show you how. Exploring Mathematics Through All Disciplines Thinkfinity Partner Sites provide standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students through all subject areas. Explore lesson plans that bridge literature and mathematics; connect mathematics to sports, rhythm to math; apply mathematical ideas and skills to the world around; strengthen reading comprehension through math problem solving skills; connect mathematics and environmental concerns Explore links, resources and interactive activities that engage students and prepare them with 21^st century skills. The Technology Enhanced Language Arts Classroom Language Arts teachers – see how you can quickly and easily find free, standards based resources to integrate technology into a non-technology curriculum. There is no need to be a technology expert! Anyone can do it. Experience a hands-on guided tour through Thinkfinity to see some of the tens of thousands resources including interactives, video clips, audio clips, rubrics, handouts, maps, and more.Thinkfinity.org provides teachers, parents, and students with quick access to educational resources created by experts specifically for the classroom. Be introduced to Web 2.0 tools in the brand new "Verizon Thinkfinity Community" Great Resources for For a Project Based Classroom Thinkfinity is just the help you have been looking for to implement project based learning in your classroom. Thinkfinity's classroom-ready lesson plans and other online teaching materials make it easy to integrate Thinkfinity resources into your classroom. You'll find primary source materials, interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists to help you tailor materials to your teaching style and needs. Thinkfinity content is appropriate and reliable, endorsed by the nation's leading education organizations.