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Disguise Research Skills as a Scavenger Hunt

by BrainNinjasWP

Give your students meaningful practice doing research by completing scavenger hunts. They're fun and serve a purpose. Come find out how we use them in our classroom.

Sometimes students don’t understand how time is of the essence when doing research. They lack the research skills to use text features, skim materials, and find items quickly. Not only does this slow down their work, it often results in incomplete research and general frustration.

It is a struggle year after year.

However, we have managed to find some activities that help students refine their research skills: scavenger hunts. It turns out that making research fun and game-like can have a positive impact on how students complete research.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety, ELA, English Language Arts, Geography, research, research skills, scavenger hunts, Social Studies, Teachers Pay Teachers, TpT Products

Find the Fake News and So Much More

by BrainNinjasWP

We need to teach students how to think critically about what they see online. Check out these tips and lessons you can use in your clasroom to help turn your students in to responsible digital citizens. Digital citizenship and online safety should be a priority in every upper elementary classroom.

We realized the importance of teaching critical thinking and fact-checking one day on Facebook. One ninja-mother-in-law posted an article about an actor that had died-but the actor had died FIVE years earlier. Yet, there she was just reposting like crazy. A dog with a piece of ham on its face was her next post and that was when we started writing our digital citizenship and online safety resource. Clearly, digital citizenship is a skill to be learned by many these days.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Classroom Technology, Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety, Educational Technology, Fake News, Health, Lesson Plans, Online Safety, Setting Up Technology, Social Media, Teachers Pay Teachers, Technology in the Classroom, Technology Integration, Wellness

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