Polk County Public Schools, Staff
Program: These activity packs provide a set of educational resources focused on oceans, technology and ethics, forensic science, and Earth Day. They are packaged in a widget format that teachers can embed in their own class or social media web page. Each pack includes links to PBS web sites and a set of activities by grade level. They offer lessons on breakthroughs in medical research, weather, Earth Day, innovation and invention, and forensic science.
Funding/Award: PBS Teachers offers online science and technology activity packs for K-12 teachers
Eligibility: K-12 teachers
Contact: Web Site
Program: Digital Wish helps teachers find funding for classroom technology. All teachers who submit a lesson plan will be automatically entered to win up to 43 technology grants. Through Digital Wish, teachers can tell their stories and let the world know how they will use technology in the classroom. Class stories will be publicly posted so that potential donors can make a contribution. Grants will be awarded on the 28th of every calendar month.
Funding/Award: Vary
Eligibility: Teachers
Contact: Web Site
Program: The Verizon Foundation's Thinkfinity.org provides a wealth of online educational and literacy resources for students, parents, and after-school programs. Their goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing free extensive on-site professional development training. All of Thinkfinity.org's 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools, and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students.
Funding/Award: Thinkfinity.org's standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools, and reference materials
Eligibility: K-12
Contact: Web Site
Program: Digital Wish is now offering a program that matches teachers with donors. To find a donor, teachers must build a wish list of Digital Wish classroom technology products. Teachers may then tell their stories and share their lesson plan ideas. Prospective donors can review a classroom profile and donate funding or purchase a wish list item for a school. After each technology purchase, Digital Wish will automatically donate an additional 2-10% in immediate cash-back funding to the recipient school to fund their next technology project.
Funding/Award: Donors put technology in schools
Eligibility: Teachers
Contact: Web Site
Program: Wikis are simple group Web sites that are easy for anyone to edit. They are great for classrooms, work groups, clubs and more. Wikispaces provides easy-to-use hosted wikis. To encourage the use of wikis in education, Wikispaces is offering free wikis to K-12 teachers. These wikis can be public or private, have no advertising on them, provide unlimited usage, and are completely free.
Funding/Award: Free wikis
Eligibility: K-12 teachers
Contact: Web Site