1. Accelerate Your Curriculum with Thinkfinity! Linda Rush Field Trainer Thinkfinity.org TCEA invites you to…

2. Copyright © 2008 Verizon Foundation. All Rights Reserved. 2 A partnership between the Verizon Foundation and the nation’s leading educational and literacy organizations 55,000 + FREE education and literacy resources FREE professional development What is Thinkfinity? Thinkfinity.org is a Web site that contains thousands of free lesson plans and student materials for every core subject, designed by the leading educational organizations in the United States.

3. Thinkfinity’s Content Partners 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/Language Arts American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScience National Geographic SocietyGeography National Museum of American HistoryAmerican History American Library Association, National Center for Family Literacy & ProLiteracy Worldwide Adult & Family Literacy

4. Integration Plan The Integration Plan helps guide teachers through the thought process of how a Thinkfinity resource can be used in the classroom. 4 Lesson Plan Standards: National or state Objective: Students will compute the number of possibilities that can be made from a given number of factors Learning Activities: 1.Discussion 2.Hands-on - shirts and shorts 3.Partner - TF interactive Assessment: Related to objective

5. Learning Objects Online Manipulatives Video Clips and Podcasts Printable Activities Interactives Graphic Organizers Virtual Museums

6. How do you find resources? Three Main Ways: 1. Navigation through Partner site 2. Search Engine 3. Educator Homepage

7. We lose our students sometimes because we bore them! Students are more “tech savvy” than teachers! The World of “Digital Natives”

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10. Arts Edge http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

11. Econ Ed Link http://www.econedlink.org/ Example: http://www.kidsbank.com/

12. Art and Culture http://edsitement.neh.gov/

13. Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/

14. Family Literacy http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/TLN/

15. Read Write Think http://www.readwritethink.org/

16. Science Net Links http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/

17. Smithsonian http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si. edu/

18. National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpe ditions/