CK-12 Certified Educator Program - free resources and free PD

CK-12 is one of my favorite resources for educators. It contains a wide variety of materials, lesson plans, virtual labs, interactive lesson activities, digital-multimedia "flexbooks" and much more.

CK-12 also has a certified educator program for teachers. It is a comprehensive program with thousands of educators around the globe. They have some great free webinars coming up from July 8-19, 2019, where you can enjoy free, fun, flexible learning. There are over 30 live sessions so you can create your own learning pathway. To earn the CK-12 Certified Educator status, you need to watch 5 live webinars, watch 2 on demand sessions, and create 7 matching assignments. The program offers professional development hours, engagement with live CK-12 moderators, extensive knowledge of the CK-12 platform, and a network of educators. All free!

Take a look at CK-12 and the Certified Educator Program.


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CK-12 and Google Classroom - great resources that are better together

Assign CK-12 Content Direct to Google Classroom

Did you know you can assign content from CK-12 directly to Google Classroom?

CK-12 has some amazing and diverse resources to help students learn and explore. It is one of my single most favorite resources to share with teachers and students.

You can assign reading material, adaptive practice, videos, simulations, and more from CK-12's standards-aligned content library directly to your students in Google Classroom.

• Reads
• Videos
• Real World Applications (RWAs)
• Adaptive practice
• Quizzes
• Simulations (SIMs)
• PLIX

Grades are automatically reported to your GradeBook in Google Classroom saving time and effort.

You can connect your existing CK-12 account by signing in, going to account settings and connecting your Google account under "Connected Social Accounts" section.

Find, Assign, Connect...Success!

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CK-12 Certified Educator Program is back! Great program from a great resource

CK-12 is one of my favorite resources for educators. They have digital, interactive textbooks, practice assessments, simulations, virtual labs, study aids, concept maps, adaptive practice and more, for almost every subject and grade level. And it's all free! And works on all platforms. 

They recently announced that they have brought back their CK-12 Certified Educator Program, which is also free. 

This program helps you learn how you can utilize CK-12 to help you personalize learning, engage students, assign work, and track progress. It also gives you a deeper understanding of all of the resources CK-12 has to offer and how you can customize the content to meet the needs of your students.

CK-12's Certified Educator Program will take place during July 2018, with a variety of live sessions offered multiple times a day between July 9 and July 20.

The live sessions will teach you about all of CK-12's resources to get you prepared for the upcoming school year. Register today and they will send you more information about the program in the coming weeks.

Certified Educator Program page 

Take a look and see how CK-12 can help you help your students. 

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CK-12 Concept Maps - see the connections between math and science concepts

CK-12, one of my all time favorite, free resources for teachers, has a very cool new feature called "Concept Maps".

 "Concept Maps" uses visual concept mapping to show connections between different concepts in math, science and connections between math and science. It is very easy to use and is a great way to help students see these connections, make their own connections, and see why learning these different topics is so important.

Just search for a topic and suggested items appear. Select one and see the concept map. Math and science are color coded so you can tell which is which.

Here is one on Bio and Forensics:

Here is one on Newton's 2nd Law of Motion:

This is an excellent resource for helping students better understand concepts and connections.

Make sure you also check out all of the other great resources CK-12 has to offer.

More great resources on CK-12 and what it has to offer for teachers and students. 
Digital, interactive textbooks, simulations, virtual labs, assessments, games, and much more.

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CK-12 Integrates Its Awesome Educational Resources With Google Classroom

CK-12, a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced that it is integrating with Google Classroom. Google recently updated Classroom to allow third parties to integrate and share with Classroom and CK-12 has just done that.

The Google Classroom share button is now in CK-12 so teachers and students can access all of the content in CK-12 from within Google Classroom. A teacher can easily share any textbook, video, activity or assignment they find in CK-12 right into Classroom for their students to access.

Check out this video that shows how it works:

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CK-12 announces mobile apps with adaptive learning

CK-12, a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced new student mobile apps that provide you with the ability to learn math and science, anywhere, anytime. 

The apps, available for iOS and Android, are easy to use and contain over 100,000 adaptive practice questions that adjust in difficulty based on your results. In addition, if you struggle with a concept, it will recommend resources, like articles and videos, to help you. The resources are excellent. The dashboard shows you your progress.

This is a great way for students to study math and science concepts, whether for their own enrichment, extra help, or for studying. 

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PhET - excellent, free, virtual labs and simulations for science




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CK-12 has over 100,000 teacher created digital textbooks available for free

CK-12, a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced that there are now over 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks available online on their site. These new "Flexbooks" were created by the 30,000 schools that are using CK-12's free digital resources.

 

They also have some great physics simulations and other resources available, as well as new elementary math resources and PLIX (Play, Learning, Interact, eXplore) which provides an interactive and immersive experience where students learn by doing, allowing them to use critical thinking and creativity. 

All of these resources are free and easy to use. The FlexBooks are customizable by the teacher using them to fit their needs and the needs of their students. 

Many schools have adopted these resources to replace traditional textbooks, saving millions of dollars and using those saving to purchase technology resources and other needed items. 

CK-12's resources are excellent quality, easy to use, and pedagogically well done. 

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CK-12 announces online Physics Interactive Simulations (free)

CK-12, a great resource for free e-textbook and curricular resources, has just announced the launch of it's Physics Interactive Simulations. The simulations are all online and free.

There are currently 66 simulations available, with a lot more coming soon. Some of them may look familiar as some look like some I used on PhET, another source of great online labs and simulations.

These simulations are great ways for students to learn about physics concepts and can be used as part of labs, projects, or on their own. PhET has same/similar ones with lots of educator resources.

You have to sign in to use them, but you can sign in with a Google account so students will have access.

The really nice thing - they work on Chromebooks!!

Here are some of the simulations they have:

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CK-12 - free e-textbooks and more - updates and news

CK12 is a great resource for students and teachers. Their flexbook site contains tons of online textbooks, all free, for teachers to use. You can also create your own flexbook on the site, combining parts of other textbooks from their site, or using materials of your own. Books are available in PDF, Kindle, iPad, NOOK and other formats. 

In February, they reached 1,000,000 books downloaded, showing how popular open, e-textbooks are becoming. 

They also have content: US History Sourcebook - basic, available in ePub format (readable on iOS, Android and NOOK.

The FlexBooks system will be getting updated to version 2.0 soon, which will "combine student-centric learning with teacher-centric tools and materials to create a dynamic system." Invitation only beta testing will be starting this month. New titles that will be released soon include:

CK-12 Algebra II w/Trig (the first five chapters)
CK-12 Middle School Math - Grade 6, Teacher's Edition, Teaching Tips
CK-12 Middle School Math - Grade 6, Teacher's Edition, Common Errors
CK-12 Middle School Math - Grade 6, Teacher's Edition, Differentiated Instruction
CK-12 Physical Science For Middle School

In addition to the Flexbooks digital textbooks, CK-12 offers free SAT prep and an interactive Algbra curriculum.

This is a great resource for all educators and students. To use e-textbooks, students have to have access to technology, which costs money. Free and open e-textbooks are a great way to save money. 

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Wolfram announces Wolfram Education Portal

Wolfram, the makers of Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, and Mathematica, announced yesterday the launch of the Wolfram Education Portal. The portal will have dynamic teaching and learning tools, organized by course, such as dynamic textbook, lesson plans, interactive demonstrations, widgets and more.

It is in Beta at this time, but anyone can sign up for a free account and access the materials.

Materials are available for Algebra and Calculus and Pre-Calculus are coming soon. Future features include forums, problem generators, web based apps, and personalized content. The problem generators will allow students to work on problems online and it will change the difficulty and type of question based on the previous answers.

The interactive textbook was developed in collaboration with the CK-12 Foundation which produces free K-12 materials and e-textbooks. I've used many of the CK-12 materials and they are very good.

The interactive textbook has Wolfram|Alpha widgets and links and interactive demonstrations from Mathematica.

This is a great resource for math teachers and any teacher or parent looking to help a student with math (or brush up on their own math skills).

Take a look: Wolfram Education Portal


Source: Wolfram Blog announcement of Wolfram Education

Free online textbooks

CK12 is a great resource for students and teachers. Their flexbook site contains tons of online textbooks, all free, for teachers to use. You can also create your own flexbook on the site, combining parts of other textbooks from their site, or using materials of your own.

They currently have flexbooks in Physics, Math, and Biology, but there are always more being created and added.

The site is relatively easy to use and I plan on creating my own Flexbook for my Physics class.