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º Access and use resources from school or home! º 55,000 + FREE educational resources º A partnership between the Verizon Foundation and the nation’s leading educational and literacy organizations º FREE professional development Thinkfinity.org is a website that contains thousands of free K-12 lesson plans and student materials for every core subject, designed by the leading educational organizations in the United States.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsArts National Council on Economic EducationEconomics National Endowment for the HumanitiesHumanities National Council of Teachers of MathematicsMathematics International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English Reading/English Language Arts American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScience National Geographic SocietyGeography Smithsonian National Museum of American HistoryAmerican History National Center for Family Literacy & ProLiteracy Worldwide Adult & Family Literacy Thinkfinity Partners

Continuum of skills Basic skillsHigher order thinking Thinkfinity focuses on standards Knowing the alphabet Counting to 5 Adding fractions Reading decoding States and capitals Volcano formation Converting decimals Difference between protons & neutrons Newton’s law of gravity Cell division Determine regression coefficients Thinkfinity focuses on 21 st century skills Critical thinking Collaboration Social responsibility Civic literacy Problem solving Technology literacy Communication Global awareness Financial literacy Personal responsibility Innovation Standards & 21 st Century Skills

multimed ia explorati ons primary source documents lesson plans video clips podcasts interactiv e calendars interactiv es student e- sheets 1,200 print friendly maps datalinks educator e-newsletters Parent tools powerful search engine

Is Bigger better? vs.

13 million +# Pearl Harbor resources50 MostlyFree?Yes Maybe, probably notCreated by Experts? / cross disciplinary? Yes DoubtfulStandards Based?Yes If you’re luckyCommercial Free?Yes Who knowsAudience Appropriate?Yes No wayGrade level specific?Yes Dream onComes with FREE training?Yes