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If you’re a K-12 educator, you can accessCanva for Education for free! You’ll get all the benefits of Canva premium features such as millions of images, fonts, graphics, videos, animations, and templates, plus a dedicated classroom workspace to invite students and teachers to share, review, and manage your work.
AND if you’re an Iowa Educator you get Pear Deck Premium for free! You’ll get all of the bells and whistles of draggables, immersive reader, student paced mode, locks, timers review and reflect and more!
About Me — build connections with your students by sharing an “About Me” presentation
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) — understand your students with a Mood or Feelings check-in
Science — teach a ready-to-use Science presentation template
Social Studies — engage students with an eye-catching Social Studies lesson
Pear Deck also partners with Newsela! This month’s tip is a recommendation from Stephanie Hnesh, 5th grade teacher in Iowa City. She loves using the Daily Decks with Newsela content that are new every day to engage students in rich conversations. Take a look!
