21 Activities for the 21st Century Classroom
 
 
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills describes four elements as a framework for
21st century student outcomes.

They are:
Mastery of Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
Learning and Innovation Skills
Information Media and Technology Skills
Life and Career Skills
These 21 Web 2.0 sites and activities provide the skills, knowledge, and expertise students
should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.
Try a few to begin a 21st century learning environment in your classroom!


Core subjects and
21st century themes
include:
• Core subjects include English, reading or language arts, world languages, arts, mathematics, economics, science, geography, history, government and civics.

 • Interdisciplinary themes must be weaved into the core subjects. They are:
• Global Awareness
• Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
• Civic Literacy
• Health Literacy

A Video Story and Reflection Guide

Learning and Innovation Skills
are what separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century and those who are not.

Learning and innovation skills include:
• Creativity and Innovation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Communication and Collaboration

A Video Story and Reflection Guide

Information, Media, and Technology Skills
are essential in a technology and media-driven environment. Students and citizens must be able to exhibit a range of functional and critical thinking skills, such as:

• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy 
• ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy

A Video Story and Reflection Guide

Life and Career Skills
are important as today’s life and work environments require far more than thinking skills and content knowledge.

The ability to navigate a globally competitive information age requires students to pay rigorous attention to developing adequate life and career skills, such as:

• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity and Accountability
• Leadership and Responsibility

A Video Story and Reflection Guide



  

Amazing Adventures Field Trips
These interactive educational virtual field trips to national parks and museums includes webisodes, lessons, and TV shows. Register for free for 4 field trips this year.

Collaborative Online Projects
Connect your students from all over the world in projects that promote shared responsibility as they are learning about a variety of community and global topics.

Del.icio.us
This social bookmarking site allows you to create your own bookmarks that you can access online and share your bookmarks with others.

Discovery Channel Curriculum Center
Try these classroom activites that support core curriculum topics in addition to the Learning Adventures.

eScrapbooking
This website provides strategies for creating electronic, educational, experiential, and engaging scrapbooks by combining photographs, memorabilia, written narratives, poetry, quotations, stories, or other textual content into a scrapbook style album.

FlickrStorm
This Flickr/Creative Commons site allows you to collect photos choosing from a variety of copyright licenses. Click on Advanced to choose the licence type.

Gcast
Create your own audio broadcast by calling a toll free number from any phone and record a podcast of any length. This Web 2.0 tool is great for activities such as recording discussions, field notes, reflections, and assignments.

Grammar of the Internet
Teach your students how to validate Web site information by using the following resource and lesson ideas.

Kerpoof
Be Creative! Print a card, tell a story, or make a movie with this online tool! Collaborative with other teachers by viewing lesson plan ideas and sharing some of your own!

PBWiki
Ask others to share and collaborate with you as you learn more about a topic by building a wiki website.

SurveyMonkey
Create a poll to ask a lot of people just about anything!

Picnik
With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. This is a great tool for all ages to support creativity in the learning process

PageFlakes
Personalize the Web and make it your own by subscribing electronic journals, videos, podcasts, photos, weather information, news and much more!

Protopage
Create your own personal webpage for your students and parents for weblinks and class information

Read, Write, Think Interactive Tools
These tools support student learning while using interactive tools to create and publish work.

Scholastic Online Activities
Students are able to learn about core subjects through these online activities that engage students as they interact with topics such as immigration, science explorations, and literacy topics.

ThinkQuests
The ThinkQuest Library provides innovative learning resources for students of all ages on a wide range of educational topics.

TuxPaint
This interactive paint program is designed for children 3 - 12 years old. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Visual Literacy Activities
Learn more about the importance of visual literacy in the classroom using these lesson plans and ideas.

Voice Thread
Voice Thread allows users to add audio and/or text commentary to an image to promote collaboration.

WebQuests
A webquest an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet.