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Monthly Archives: May 2018

riding horses in Chile — Here it is, another issue of the Start-up Diaries, Santiago edition. I was talking with a friend of mine in Start-up Chile, she runs Mi Manuel de Bebe (your baby instruction manual) , one of the biggest parenting sites in Colombia. Like me, she had been saying for years she […]

Why Do We Put Off Making Changes?

May 31, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

You made it through another school year and you don’t even want to think about the fall. Maybe you have two weeks left of school and you don’t even want to think about the fall. I understand, I really do. After grading 200 papers, submitting grades for students, you just […]

How You Can Be a Better Teacher

May 29, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from Fish Lake and it’s a video called “Meeting in the Middle”. This video teaches you about fractions, equivalent fractions, and how fractions are used in the real world. Click on the video or link below to learn about fractions. Meeting […]

Freebie Friday: Meeting in the Middle

May 25, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

If you’ve been reading AnnMaria’s “Start-up Diaries, Santiago edition” blogs or if you follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, you know that AnnMaria has been in Chile the last couple of months marketing and adapting our games to a Latin American audience for Start-up Chile. One of her and our […]

Help Us Name Our New Chilean Game!

May 24, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged chile / Chilean game / start-up Chile by Hannah Wren

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from March 26, 2016 “You’re Blaming the Wrong Person” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I was making beef stew with my granddaughter the other day – […]

Throwback Thursday: You’re Blaming the Wrong Person

May 24, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Teaching Native American culture, but don’t know where to start? One feature that makes our games unique is their incorporation of Native American history. We know that there aren’t many classroom resources available for teaching Native American culture and we wanted to help fix that problem. In fact, many of […]

Three Videos We Love that Teach Dakota Culture

May 22, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged Dakota / Native American culture / videos by Hannah Wren

I know a lot of people who want to work with the big accounts. Whether it’s a financial advisor who wants to start off by advising the latest athlete to sign a multi-million dollar contract or the sales person who is only interested in selling to General Electric or the […]

What Microsoft Gets Right and Other People Don’t

May 19, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

You made it, it’s Friday! Since it’s Friday, that means it is time for the weekend but that it also means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is a powerpoint and pdf from AzTech Games on median. The powerpoint and pdf teaches you what’s a median and […]

Freebie Friday: Median

May 18, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Angie from Forgotten Trail in woods at night — Looking back at my time at UCLA, one experience that stands out is an education course I took where I developed curriculum for teaching incarcerated youth of color language arts, then implemented my lesson plans with the young men at BJN Juvenile Hall. (Incarcerated youth are disproportionally minority youths.) My […]

Teaching Incarcerated Youth Of Color – And What They Taught ...

May 17, 2018 in 7GenGames / Education: Innovation and STEM tagged EdTech / Incarcerated Youth by Hannah Wren

Long division continuously tends to be an area students struggle in the most. While teachers could probably spend the entire year going over division in their classroom, they are often forced to move on to the next lesson sooner than many students need. When there is so much to teach […]

Three Videos we Love that Teach Long Division

May 17, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged long division / videos by Hannah Wren

AnnMaria, Maria and Ronda try to coordinate outfits for a Reebok luncheon. What is grandma attire? What's a Serena Williams look?

Throwback Thursday – Texts with My Daughters: Reebok Women Lunch

May 17, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Understanding when two fractions are equivalent is a third grade Common Core standard. Even if you aren’t teaching in a Common Core school district, you probably still cover a similar lesson on fractions in your classroom. If your students are learning how to determine if two fractions are equivalent for […]

Three Videos We Love that Teach Equivalent Fractions

May 15, 2018 in 7GenGames tagged fractions / Math / Teacher Resources / vidoes by Hannah Wren