UEN Introduction

Welcome to the introduction of UEN. These resources are offered to Utah educatorsfree of charge with a valid utah .edu email account.You will use your UVU email to acquire a liscence and get into the wealth of tools and resources available to yourand your students. These tools include the following: Core Curriculum Lesson Plans Rubrics Interactives Parent Resources K-12 Center World Resources Culture Grams SIRS Discoverer SIRS Knowledge Source Soundzabound eMedia EBSCO host These tools will open new worlds and possibilities for you and your students. You will spend class time playingwith the tools and exploring the UEN environment! Enjoythe journey!! Core Curriculum: look up core for specific grades look up core for specific content keep up to date with core standards keep up to date with changes use UEN to help organize your objectives Core Curriculum: allows you to organize your curriculum according to core standards allows you to organize your objectives allows you to stay current with the latest modifications to the standards online method for obtaining your standards Lesson Plans: allows you to share lesson plan ideas with the community allows you to use other teachers' lesson plan ideas allows you to create lesson plans using a free online tool Rubric Tool: use pre-made rubrics made to the standards contribute your rubrics to the community create a mash-up of several rubrics Interactives: alternative teaching ideas for visual learners game learning with instructional outcomes Parent Resources: gives you information on how to better help parents gives you information on how to better help students great resource for working with students professional development tools for self study K-12 Center: access to Pioneer Library access to Time Magazine access to CNN access to Library of Congress access to NASA and much, much more... Culture Grams: opens the world to you and your students learn about various cultures look up historical information learn phrases in other languages... eMedia: acquire free open source videos acquire bill nye the science guy acquire PBS shows all content open source...use at your discretion download videos for long term storage