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It’s Our Duty to Participate in the Census and Vote
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Thoughts on a Future to Hope For
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A Closer Look at Wrongful Death Claims
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Minty Carrot Top Pesto
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The Best Educational Tools to Help Students Succeed
and in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. EduHam is a free digital program for students and their families that provides history lessons on the Founding Era of the United States. It also brings art into the mix — Miranda shows students how to create their own performance pieces based on primary source documents,
Student Tech Success
Kids these days face so many more distractions from academics than their parents did. It’s not as easy to focus on homework when TikTok, YouTube, and all sorts of video games beckon. Rather than being distracted by technology, students now have opportunities to engage with technology to help promote their learning. Here are three tools to help students at different age levels get the most from online learning.
which they can then share in the app. The program is geared toward students in sixth through 12th grade, though everyone is welcome to participate.
BEANSTALK
FIVEABLE
While Beanstalk is an online learning tool, the beauty of it is that the classes and videos aim to pull kids “out of the screen to do real-world physical activities.” These include science experiments, building projects, and more. Experienced teachers provide engaging lessons and learning tools, and many of them are free.
For high school students, the most looming challenges include the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams that are so important for college. Enter Fiveable, the amazing free resource that houses thousands of livestreams, study guides, trivia games, and other resources for 15 AP subjects. Started by a former teacher, Fiveable is passionate about giving students the resources they’ll need to be successful now and into the future. With so many resources out there, students can use technology in plenty of ways to help them be successful. Here’s to a fall season full of learning!
EDUHAM
What better way to learn about the history of our nation than through one of the nation’s most popular musicals? “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda launched this learning platform in 2016 along with the show’s director
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