National Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of November. Here are some fun activities that your K-12 students can participate in all year.
History
Most of the time, words like “studying” and “vacations”, can sound like complete antonyms. In general, studying at a school can be exhausting, to the point that can become stressful for kids. However, studying by itself may not be as stressful as studying while at school, where kids must past […]
Why is it good to learn during vacations?
We updated Making Camp Lakota. Prepare your kids to beat summer learning loss with this free game!
Prevent Summer Learning Loss with Making Camp Lakota!
Welcome to the 7 Generation Games and Growing Math Fall 2021 Art Contest Gallery! Here, you can view all the submissions from the contest participants. The theme for the art contest is Native American Heritage Month. Contestants' grade levels range from 2nd to 8th grade.
Students Illustrate Indigenous Culture in the Growing Math Art Contest-Winners ...
The Growing Math art contest ends on November 30, 2021.
Fall 2021 Growing Math Art Contest–Extended!
She was a notable Native American woman who championed for policy changes and legislation that would allow Native Americans to become citizens in their own country. She also wrote the first Native American opera.
Women’s History Month: Zitkála-Šá
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time for reflection upon civil rights movement of the 1960s. What will you be teaching your students today? Many who aren’t in education are thinking of service work, volunteering through Americorps, or celebrating virtually this year. For students, we have curated some adaptable […]
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Here’s a little bit of US history from Southeast Alaska. Today, civil rights activist and Tlingit tribal member Elizabeth Peratrovich was celebrated as a Google Doodle. She was also honored on a new $1 coin from the US Mint earlier in 2020. Peratrovich was a key figure in establishing the […]
Elizabeth Peratrovich
Combining Mayan history and math, learn about distributions and Mayan trading with these two videos. An adventure game, included, kicks off the AzTech Games series. Bilingual Spanish-English
Social Studies Meets Math in Today’s AzTech Games Lesson
If you’re a teacher, you probably know that time lines are actually a Social Studies standard, not math. However, that seems like splitting hairs to us. We’re all about teaching math in context and we know from experience that many students struggle with timelines that have dates before the year […]
Lesson Plan: Timelines
10-minute lesson on primary sources Have your students watch the following two videos back to back. Not the galloping buffalo, the video below that. These two videos together are great resources for a lesson on the value of primary sources. Becoming a Buffalo Hunter How did you learn to hunt […]