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An Awesome Interactive Lesson for Women’s History Month

Thanks to Heather from OH for sharing a great lesson in celebration of National Women’s History Month:

Women’s History (Book), VizZle ID Number: 110133
Images and text w/ audio about the women’s rights movement and women’s enfranchisement in the United States, with popups and quizzes, 8 pages with a custom video celebration
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New York City PS creators have shared some awesome lessons celebrating Black History Month. The VizZle moderators were especially impressed with Dachka B’s lesson Ruby Bridges and Angela S’s Etta James. But we really loved Erin S’s George Crum lesson, as potato chips hold a place near and dear to our hearts… Many thanks to all the authors who shared lessons honoring Black History Month–may the extra bonus good karma points rain upon you!

Here’s the details on theses three lessons (but you can run a search fot “Black History” in Share to find lots more):

• Ruby Bridges (Book), VizZle ID Number: 99919
  Image and text w/ audio about Ruby Bridges and school integration (e.g., “At the start of school integration, many white parents were afraid of the protesters in front of the Frantz School. Even if parents believed in integration they didn’t want to put their children in danger by sending them to class.”), 16 pages
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• Etta James (Book), VizZle ID Number: 100729
  Image and text w/ audio about Etta James (e.g., “In 1993, Etta James was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!”), includes recordings of two of her songs, 12 pages
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• George Crum (Book), VizZle ID Number: 100157
  Image and text about George Crum, the inventor of potato chips (e.g., “George Crum is an inventor. An investor means a person who makes or creates something.”), 10 pages
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Cynthia C from Minneapolis shared this great lesson on Leap Year. Thanks for sharing Cynthia–bonus good-karma points are winging your way!

• Leap Year (Book), VizZle ID Number: 102107
  Image and text w/ audio about 2012 being a leap year and why (e.g., “We can’t have ¼ of a day, so we just set it aside. 2009 had 365 days.”), 11 pages
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Our thanks to Sarah T from Ohio who shared this great lesson for listening comprehension called What Do You Hear?. Not only is it an awesome listening lesson–the moderators gave her extra extra bonus good-karma points for sending it in 100% error-free!

• What Do You Hear? (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 93839
  Image of an ear and text (“I hear”) w/ audio of a specific sound (e.g., sound of a harp playing) TO image of object that makes the sound and text label (e.g., “harp”), field of 3 choices, 8 pairs
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Many thanks to Erin O from Shaker Heights, OH for sharing a terrific edit of a book called Open Things. The moderators were impressed by the most excellent use of video to help generalize the verb.

• Open Things (Book), VizZle ID Number: 85541
  Images and simple text containing the verb “open” (e.g., “open book”), each with video models depicting open, 7 pages
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Thanks for stories on Chinese New Year Angela McV (OH) http://goo.gl/LXXTS and Amanda C (NYC) http://goo.gl/9Go9Q! (#autism #spedchat) We appreciate your sharing your terrific lessons with the VizZle community!

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New in Share! This awesome lesson just shared by David from Allen, TX in the VizZle library brings history to life and makes it relatable. Check out Tail Gunner in WWII – ab fab for studying World War II, Vetran’s Day, Memorial Day, and 4th of July too! Thanks for sharing David!!

• Tail Gunner in WWII (Book), VizZle ID Number: 83414
  Image and text about Sonny Kemble, a tail gunner in WWII (e.g., “I flew in a B17 bomber. It was a big airplane.”), popup text question (e.g., “What war was I in?”) TO text (e.g., “WWII”), 10 pages
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Cathy P from Shaker Heights, OH created and shared this great lesson on ASL Colors. Thanks for sharing Cathy!

• ASL Colors (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 79672
  Image of a hand pointing to the video play button and text w/ audio directing the student to watch the video clip of the ASL sign for a specific color (“Watch the video and match the color.”) TO color swatch and text label (e.g., “yellow”), field of 3 choices, 10 pairs
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Lessons for Skills Practice over Break – Autism VTips

Of course, as loyal readers of these fabulous pearls of wisdom, you’ve already taken to heart my best advice on sending work home over a school holiday (VTips for a Smoother Thanksgiving Break). And you just knew that I would provide you with a Winter Break version of the visual story, like this one:

• Winter Break (Book), VizZle ID Number: 71300
  Images and text w/speech about getting time off school to celebrate winter holidays, with a quiz and pop-up for discussion, 11 pages
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And having had a fabulous week exploring the shared user library in VizZle for holiday lessons (because you hopped right on all my suggestions last week in 5 Tips for Finding “The Best” Holiday-Themed Lessons), you realize, “Huzzah! I still have a week left on my free trial!” So you can find exactly the fun and engaging lessons you need for your kids to retain skills over break.

But just on that oh-so-tiny chance you haven’t quite gotten to any of that yet, (and because I just love showing off cool VizZle lessons) here are some common skills practice gems that you might find useful to send home over break.

• Penguins (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 9379
  Image of penguins TO identical matching image, field of 3 choices, 27 pairs
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• Colors (Book), VizZle ID Number: 27035
  45 page Book. Images and text showing colors, color examples, then followed by quizzes for each color. All pages have TTS (text to speech) audio.
  (No access to VizZle? Click here for a browser version—remember to maximize your browser and click play at the bottom.)
• Find the Sports Equipment (Game), VizZle ID Number: 16589
  Each tile has an image with a popup matching quiz with a text directive (i.e., “Find the Sports Equipment”) TO image, 20 tiles, number spinner
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• I Know My Numbers (1-11) (Book), VizZle ID Number: 17661
  I Know My Numbers (1-11) with color word quizzes. Match the color word to the correct set. Includes a video on the first and last page of the story.
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• Word Families (Sorting), VizZle ID Number: 68706
  Sort into word families of /ap/ OR /an/ and /am/ OR /at/, text w/ audio instructions, text categories, image and text label w/ audio sorts, 8 tiles per sort, 2 sorts
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• Time (Hour) (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 1184
  Digital time (e.g. 12:00) TO analog clockface, field of 3 choices, 12 pairs. Hour only.
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• Coin Value (Heads and Tails) (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 29363
  Image of U.S. coin (both heads and tails sides represented for penny, nickel, dime and quarter) TO value (e.g., “5 cents”), field of 3 choices with set distractors, 8 pairs
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• Where Would You Buy This? (Game), VizZle ID Number: 16590
  Each tile has an image with a popup matching quiz with a text question (i.e., “Where would you buy this?”) TO image w/ text label, 20 tiles, number spinner
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• Next Dollar at the Grocery Store (Book), VizZle ID Number: 5146
  Grocery store scenarios with next dollar quizzes. Images and text w/audio, popups and quizzes, 12 pages
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Happy Holidays from the VTips Team!

VTips will be taking a winter break too—the next post will come in 2012 (and doesn’t that just sound… far away?) (I can’t believe it is almost here—how the heck did that happen?)

The VTips Team wishes you and yours a happy and healthy holiday, and a joyous and successful New Year.

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Happy Thanksgiving Break to VizZlers Everywhere

We are thankful for every one of the thousands of amazing VizZlers who have dedicated themselves to working in special education and autism. We appreciate your work and your passion.

Last-Minute Lessons

Just since the Thanksgiving lessons post, VizZle creators have added some awesome new lessons to the shared library. They might be just what you need to keep your kids focused as the break approaches.

• Ten Little Turkeys (Book), VizZle ID Number: 53660
  Image and rhyming text for counting turkeys from 10 down to none (e.g., “Ten little turkeys walking in line. One went away, then there were…”), popup related quiz image and text question (e.g., “How many turkeys are there?”) TO number (e.g., “10”), first page includes “Turkey in the Straw” video, 12 pages
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• Thanksgiving Words (Book), VizZle ID Number: 61443
  Image and repetitive simple text w/ audio related to Thanksgiving words (e.g., “I see a turkey.”), 7 pages
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• Thanksgiving Match (Pix for Print), VizZle ID Number: 60539
  For print, tile/direction tile (“Thanksgiving Match Game”, “Match the items that go together”), image of Thanksgiving food item before being cooked and another of same item after cooked, 9 tiles, prints on 1 page
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• Holiday: Halloween or Thanksgiving (Sorting), VizZle ID Number: 55183
  Sort into Halloween OR Thanksgiving, text instructions, text categories, image and text sort tiles, 8 tiles per sort, 1 sort
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• Thanksgiving Vocabulary (Matching), VizZle ID Number: 57180
  Text for vocabulary word associated with Thanksgiving (e.g., “Colony”) TO image and text definition (e.g., “A place where people settle far from home.”), field of 3 choices, 7 pairs
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Happy Thanksgiving from the VTips Team!