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You know what’s even better than Freebie Friday? The “Ultimate Freebie Friday.” We couldn’t just pick 1 or 2 or 3 or 10. Instead pulled a full dozen of great resources that we love and know that you will too. In case you missed them the first time around, here’s […]

Ultimate Freebie Friday: A Dozen Free Resources, Links and Other ...

February 9, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Maria Burns Ortiz

I am a bit embarrassed to say this but someone “improved” our teacher resources pages a while back and the results were, well see for yourself. Even worse, this page, and more like it, were around for a while before I caught the problem. (Keep reading, it does get better.) […]

Teachers aren’t stupid but they ARE busy

February 6, 2018 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from AzTech Games. The freebie is a chart showing the number of bananas found each day in the jungle. This chart can be found and is used in AzTech Games. We […]

Freebie Friday – Number of Bananas

February 2, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Freebie Friday / Teacher Resources by Diana Sanchez

Hello everyone! It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is related to our game Spirit Lake. The freebie is a link we like. The link we like is the Dakota-Lakota page from the Native-Languages.org website. Overall, the Native Languages website strives to preserve and promote American Indian languages. It […]

Freebie Friday: Links We Like, Native-Languages.org (Dakota-Lakota)

January 12, 2018 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Cultural Content / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

It’s Friday and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today isn’t just any regular Friday, it’s the last Friday of the year! Hope everyone has a great weekend ringing in the new year. But before then, we have another freebie for you. Today’s freebie is from Aztech […]

Freebie Friday – Aztech Clip Art

December 29, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

graph — As I mentioned in another blog, I’m teaching statistics to Fine Arts majors next semester and I decided the best way was NOT to have them compute the area under the normal curve between two z-scores. So, what am I doing? I’m starting in the first place by asking statistical […]

Learning Statistics with Graphs

December 9, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Resources by AnnMaria De Mars

cards with prompts — Whether it is teaching statistics, software design or writing, I think you need to remember that everything is easier once you’ve done it a bunch of times. I was talking to a couple of teachers I know about the software design project we are doing with a couple of local […]

Teaching Software Design with Writing Prompts

December 5, 2017 in AnnMaria / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / New earth by AnnMaria De Mars

By Abby Jones Ugh, my wrists! We’ve all been there, right? The start of a new school year, a new project—a new something!—that needs labels. If you are using our games you may decide to assign each student a username and password But that isn’t the bad part; you’ve got […]

Teacher Tip: Labels with Excel and Word

December 5, 2017 in Educational Resources / Tech Tips by AnnMaria De Mars

When I installed the most recent Windows 10 update, I was disheartened that it broke my current installation, sending me into a panic as I tried to think about what I was going to do for grad school. After a few minutes, I remembered that I had three certifications on […]

The Office 365 Diaries, Part One

November 27, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is from our game Making Camp. The freebie is a video on math terms. The video goes through the definitions of different terms that you should know when it comes to addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The video also gives you examples of […]

Freebie Friday: Making Camp – Math Terms

November 10, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is related to our game Fish Lake and it’s a game on fractions. This is a link we like and it’s called the FractOne Math Game. Since our game Fish Lake teaches […]

Freebie Friday – FractOne: Math Game

October 27, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

It’s the end of another week and that means that it’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from our game, AzTech Games. The freebie is a video on percentages and it teaches you what a percent is and how to find a percent. View the video on percent […]

Freebie Friday: What is a percent?

October 20, 2017 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez