Tech Thursday (2/3/2022): Mystery Science Launches New Site

<p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo5XH_vco-5rdD-E3uDSKnshn3nzVD-0OwsaLJ_CxqSkoyPphQT2VsCh1Wi5z4dPe0haNvJE1tZ5cbbwWBRMC0AR1kJIEXqAHxv_X9CRwZxeBjosaB8bVL1JRd-Z9IeGGHyYaPY-5hrGW98r-FxaKxKsP9yxCvhXPOY3pGHLiBXDHoMhDWdj6kIGF4Sw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="127" data-original-width="121" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgo5XH_vco-5rdD-E3uDSKnshn3nzVD-0OwsaLJ_CxqSkoyPphQT2VsCh1Wi5z4dPe0haNvJE1tZ5cbbwWBRMC0AR1kJIEXqAHxv_X9CRwZxeBjosaB8bVL1JRd-Z9IeGGHyYaPY-5hrGW98r-FxaKxKsP9yxCvhXPOY3pGHLiBXDHoMhDWdj6kIGF4Sw=w158-h165" width="158" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Mystery Science</i> Launches New Site!</span></h3><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Just a head's up that the look and feel of the <i>Mystery Science</i> website has changed as of January 28th, 2022! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqhMKMXBTD955mBYbTxqW_wwL0pciw4zKGJDtT6o0a2L8jF7b67-LV9CSbhqcWaHJmVlKphEsu0smwkg6ClABR8Ani1pfgTJqK9He688RsCDzy56iGlRMrXMFNP39VCvvHBBAwTRjrega6p0jCuBvSQh7NpSNKBpdcGJD6BR0Q00FtWeHM9dPKeHyWpQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1916" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqhMKMXBTD955mBYbTxqW_wwL0pciw4zKGJDtT6o0a2L8jF7b67-LV9CSbhqcWaHJmVlKphEsu0smwkg6ClABR8Ani1pfgTJqK9He688RsCDzy56iGlRMrXMFNP39VCvvHBBAwTRjrega6p0jCuBvSQh7NpSNKBpdcGJD6BR0Q00FtWeHM9dPKeHyWpQ=w627-h284" width="627" /></a></div><div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The <i>Mystery Science</i> Team has phased out their old site and has launched a new site in order to add more features and improvements for educators. Regular users may have already explored the new site; the "new" site was made permanent as of January 28th, 2022.  </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXLSjQFbe4zmugwK30nkVFzYiP4846U-J3hiitaARkv7o_JfGorxXdTUa2pGWCwCiet8up_wkkqIMHSTDcS4dMr2fJao8EpW_aRnriIRsDXsQ1-FYtbfiPU8ujNZnJgDhg0QxyrN-iEUvLgsgtPEGegEy48mOqvi1rV7Vwkv6KeJ7D5yBn8_tpY1nR-Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="2000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXLSjQFbe4zmugwK30nkVFzYiP4846U-J3hiitaARkv7o_JfGorxXdTUa2pGWCwCiet8up_wkkqIMHSTDcS4dMr2fJao8EpW_aRnriIRsDXsQ1-FYtbfiPU8ujNZnJgDhg0QxyrN-iEUvLgsgtPEGegEy48mOqvi1rV7Vwkv6KeJ7D5yBn8_tpY1nR-Q=w449-h225" width="449" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The new look includes friendly font that mimics teacher's handwriting, bright colors that are usually found in a classroom, and many new and engaging images. Besides a new look,  teachers will be able to find lessons with a "Top 5 Bonus" feature as well as "See all units at once" feature! </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSOXJXhLSzS7QzDc19sgcwdXddxlO7LlGIN319ZfA2lKBdycARGeIikqSVZgrf0LbnaFXctJ6A9uD8xoFBtr2ylaLkd2ux6SZMLqsh6IAiho8FBQ384NKr52NJs1ulYvGXWKU4xJHdj35cC35niBOUSRXH7l58a4qHihteDKOREZu7EYHwD8xsuXvdSQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="398" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSOXJXhLSzS7QzDc19sgcwdXddxlO7LlGIN319ZfA2lKBdycARGeIikqSVZgrf0LbnaFXctJ6A9uD8xoFBtr2ylaLkd2ux6SZMLqsh6IAiho8FBQ384NKr52NJs1ulYvGXWKU4xJHdj35cC35niBOUSRXH7l58a4qHihteDKOREZu7EYHwD8xsuXvdSQ=w302-h300" width="302" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>K-5 Educators will still access Mystery Science through ClassLink launchpad and/or through Discovery Education. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">If you have questions about Mystery Science or would like help integrating this tool into your classroom lessons, please reach out to the Digital Learning Team at digitallearning@johnston.k12.nc.us</span><div><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p></div>

Tech Thursday (2/3/2022): Mystery Science Launches New Site

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<h2 style="text-align: center;"> Mystery Science</h2><div>Because of our partnership with Discovery Education we are being offered Mystery Science for free until the end of the school year. Please share with all K-5 Science teachers the following link: <span face="Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><u>https://mysteryscience.com/start</u></span></span> to sign up for an account and then you can access through Classlink.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWm5wLG8esPN7le24kzYnldrlbFUy4RhdZsyppuss7DeK6jYww8-3a8SdOeccNqu0nHLBhsNQyCr-U18c8No9Zflwyh2h1crgzNlTuivw7rS2gFEi4J-dVuo1Ic5NLxvx-TWQjql1Frh8/s96/mystery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="89" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWm5wLG8esPN7le24kzYnldrlbFUy4RhdZsyppuss7DeK6jYww8-3a8SdOeccNqu0nHLBhsNQyCr-U18c8No9Zflwyh2h1crgzNlTuivw7rS2gFEi4J-dVuo1Ic5NLxvx-TWQjql1Frh8/s0/mystery.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Getting started Video: <a href="https://mysteryscience.wistia.com/embed/iframe/ozhk8931ui">https://mysteryscience.wistia.com/embed/iframe/ozhk8931ui</a></div><div><br /></div><div>If you already had an account it has already been moved to the district.  Discovery Education is offering a session for Elementary teachers on December 8 at 3:45 they will include integration ideas for using Mystery Science with your Discovery Education account.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpYKy2o_KmiUE-jdTL4FpuC351UdzVUkWc9dxBDnfNOhkXUGzeIcwKJmBRsbELNlxZ9MYX2K9-ZaCUQqKyig5HBYMH08vtdVxN0Dl3Yfe7oKckmHsCUatZJnt0BRRYlT3PdjBE6k5f9q0/s2048/Training+poser.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpYKy2o_KmiUE-jdTL4FpuC351UdzVUkWc9dxBDnfNOhkXUGzeIcwKJmBRsbELNlxZ9MYX2K9-ZaCUQqKyig5HBYMH08vtdVxN0Dl3Yfe7oKckmHsCUatZJnt0BRRYlT3PdjBE6k5f9q0/w300-h400/Training+poser.png" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>NCWiseOwl Resources for Computer Science Week</b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ncwiseowl.org/&source=gmail&ust=1605729909105000&usg=AFQjCNFOaQq-z2Kaswz-WTi5j2tYBj5Ihg" href="http://www.ncwiseowl.org/" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank" title="www.ncwiseowl.org">NCWiseOwl</a> offers resources suitable for supporting <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.csedweek.org/&source=gmail&ust=1605729909105000&usg=AFQjCNHuT1llLmmMOuyGn-Rj7Arv4ULr2g" href="https://www.csedweek.org/" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank" title="https://www.csedweek.org/">Computer Science Week</a> (Dec. 7-13) and accompanying <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://code.org/&source=gmail&ust=1605729909105000&usg=AFQjCNHpjX5U59d3ZnBBaa_GpelbF3OXfg" href="https://code.org/" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank" title="https://code.org/">Hour of Code</a>.  </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The STEM in Focus toolkit resource highlights examples that support STEM/STEAM in your school.  </span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ncdpi.instructure.com/courses/1276/pages/focus-stem-and-steam&source=gmail&ust=1605729909105000&usg=AFQjCNFskFkU-lwxoozJ5iFTSstrZKXHfA" href="https://ncdpi.instructure.com/courses/1276/pages/focus-stem-and-steam" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">https://ncdpi.instructure.com/<wbr></wbr>courses/1276/pages/focus-stem-<wbr></wbr>and-steam</a><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="margin: 0px;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ncwiseowl.org/eBooks.htm&source=gmail&ust=1605729909105000&usg=AFQjCNH-dE6J0tZ664Jn33vC2x4iXl16Bw" href="http://www.ncwiseowl.org/eBooks.htm" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank" title="http://www.ncwiseowl.org/eBooks.htm">NCWiseOwl eBook collections</a> have various series (book sets) addressing a wide array of </span><span style="background-color: yellow; margin: 0px;">coding topics</span><span style="margin: 0px;"> that are suitable for classroom instruction, individual student reading, and professional learning</span>. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="margin: 0px;">Slides</span> 7 and 8 specifically address coding with example coding eBooks.</b>  </div></div><br /></div>

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