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On a twitter education chat, people were discussing, “What education conferences would you recommend?” You missed it this year, since it ended today, but I have one for you for next year. First of all, the cost for the Wyoming Native American Education Conference is an unbelievable $25. Yes, you […]

Hidden Jewel: Wyoming Native American Education Conference

November 20, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources tagged Native American heritage month by AnnMaria De Mars

It’s the end of the week and that means that it’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is a video on how tobacco is considered sacred by most Native American tribes. The video talks about the way that tribes use tobacco and the reasons behind it. You can view […]

Freebie Friday: Tobacco is Considered Sacred by Most Native American ...

November 15, 2019 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Cultural Content / Freebie Friday / Native American heritage month by Diana Sanchez

Before I started working here, my knowledge of Native American history was what I learned in middle school, basically a watered down unit on The Trail of Tears. There is so much more history than what is taught in schools, – and at 7 Generation Games, we work really hard […]

My Top 5 Native American History Video Resources

November 14, 2019 in Educational Resources / Intern Diaries tagged Native American heritage month by Sabrena Youngerman

Pyramids are a likely icon on a time line — 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

September 20, 2019 in Educational Games / History / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade by Daniel Mondaca

Were you wishing that you could pull out the videos in our educational games for use in your lesson plans or classroom presentations? Teachertube is a social network that allows you to have and share videos, audio, and documents that have been created by users in the education field. Unlike […]

Free videos, lesson plans and student progress reports for teachers

September 17, 2019 in Educational Games / Educational Resources / Teachers by Daniel Mondaca

3/3 = 1 : Converting a fraction when adding and subtracting fractions with a common denominator — Students often struggle with multi-step problems for a lot of reasons. In my experience, the most common one is they stop too soon. For example, in the first lesson below, the student may add up the fractions of the rice gathered by each of the two sisters and stop there. […]

Adding and Subtracting fractions with a Common Denominator: Multi-step problems

August 31, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Mathematics tagged Common denominator / like denominators / multi-step problems / word problems by AnnMaria De Mars

Tic-tac-toe game for teaching multiplication — If you teach math, you are well aware of how essential it is that students learn basics such as multiplication and division. Of course math shouldn’t be all about rote memorization but if you believe it is a waste of time for students to memorize 9 x 7 = 63 […]

Teaching multiplication: Lesson Plan

August 19, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fourth Grade / multiplication / Third Grade tagged Multiplication Games / teaching multiplication by AnnMaria De Mars

Ojibwe men in canoe - photos are a good primary resource for teaching Ojibwe history — Resources for teaching Ojibwe history – from the Library of Congress This week we are bringing you what we consider to be some of the most stellar photos of the Ojibwa that you can find at Library of Congress‘ online catalog. Why 7? It seems kind of odd, doesn’t it? Well, […]

Resources for Teaching Ojibwe History

August 14, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Resources / Teachers tagged Ojibwa / Ojibwe by Victoria Moll-Ramírez

3/3 is a fraction = 1 — Is it back to school time already? Yes, it is! Are you ready? No, you are probably not. So, your friends here at 7 Generation Games want to lend a helping hand. To follow up our lesson plans on introducing fractions and teaching equivalent fractions, we want to talk about […]

When does a fraction = 1? Another back-to-school lesson plan

August 9, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers tagged converting fractions / fraction = 1 by Daniel Mondaca

find an equivalent fraction to 2 out of 5 fish — Equivalent fractions are different fractions that name the same number. The numerator and the denominator of a fraction must be multiplied by the same nonzero whole number in order to have equivalent fractions. The presentations and videos below provide multiple explanations and examples. Using Equivalent Fractions on a Number Line I really like this PPT […]

Math Lesson – Equivalent fractions

August 7, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Sixth Grade / Teachers tagged comparing fractions / equivalent fractions by Daniel Mondaca

Introducing fractions can be done with anything , like that 2/8 of these snakes are brown — STANDARD: Understand a fraction a/b with a > 1 as a sum of fractions 1/b AAGH! It’s August and almost back to school time. Maybe you are that super-teacher who has everything ready. For the rest of you mere humans, who wish you could have a lesson plan together in just 10 minutes, have […]

Introducing Fractions : Lesson Plan

August 6, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Mathematics tagged examples of fraction problems / introducing fractions by AnnMaria De Mars

Learn time rate distance problems with grandma — Time-rate-distance problems are word problems that involve the distance an object will travel at a certain average rate for a given period of time. This type of problem drives many students crazy. That’s why we find it so helpful to have multiple examples. Okay, maybe this is a 15-minute lesson, […]

Time-rate-distance problems : 10-minute lesson

July 29, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Mathematics / Seventh Grade / Sixth Grade tagged distance problems / time rate distance problems by Daniel Mondaca