Paint.Net Projects. Online Scavenger Hunts. This week’s site selection is dedicated to improving search skills.
Some of today’s sites feature a single daily question (or search challenge), and others offer topic-based research questions often called online scavenger hunts. Good hunting! Ask.com: Question of the Day4 starsThese are fun, topical questions, but often very easily answered with a single search. For example, on the day of the royal wedding, the Ask Question of the Day was "Will Kate Middleton become Queen? " To see the answer displayed along with the Ask results, simply click on the question or the "See the Answer" button. TECHNOLOGY - The Learning Network Blog. Overview | What does “good” science education look like?
What experiences, good and bad, have students had in science classes? In this lesson, students explore suggestions for improving the way science is taught and make their own proposals for new approaches to science teaching. Read more… This video is part of our guest lesson “Gearing Up for a Summer of Making, Connecting and Learning by Doing.” Updated June 13, with links to all our 2012-13 collections. This week, we’re looking back at all the lesson plans we published this school year. In addition, here is a list of all 182 Student Opinion questions we have asked this year. Below, our science, math, health and technology collection.
Read more… Joseph LapchickA mobile, fire-breathing dragon, 90 feet long, that contains a lounge for 20, was created by Ryan C. We asked Suzie Boss, who has done a series of guest posts on project-based learning for us, to focus her final post of the school year on ideas for summer. Happy making! Read more… Science. Google Earth and SketchUp Google Earth, Maps, and SketchUp have been identified as a powerful learning tools that can help students conceptualize, visualize, share, and communicate information about the world around them.
National Geographic Education. Get The Math. Toolkits. 50 Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students. Literacy is changing–not at its core necessarily, but certainly at its edges as it expands to include new kinds of “reading.”
Digital media is quickly replacing traditional media forms as those most accessible to most 21st century learners. The impact of this change is extraordinarily broad, but for now we’ll narrow it down to changes in how learners respond to the media they consume. The most fundamental pattern of formal academia is to read something and then write about it. Sometimes this writing comes in the form of responding to questions, while other time it’s in the form of an essay. And sometimes the reading is watching, playing with, or otherwise interacting with a digital media. Some of these tasks will look familiar, especially to English teachers. You also might notice that many of them apply to both traditional and digital media. @missgarrido #articles. CIS Introduction. 365 things to make you go "Hmmm..." What is 365 Things?
'365 Things' is a thinking skills resource. Simply put, it's one big question for every day in the year. Its official aim as a thinking skills resource is to help your pupils deepen their understanding and introduce them to different ways of thinking, but if it gets your class talking hard about the answer, that's good enough for us. We've had both secondary and primary schools using the resource, but our main support comes from KS2 classes. The daily questions vary, from open-ended Maths challenges to more philosophical issues. . - creative thinking,- mathematical thinking and problem-solving,- decision making,- critical thinking- logical thinking We try to be topical when there's a subject we think will provoke discussion (e.g. we covered the Chilean miners' release and the Royal Wedding) and if your class has a question they'd like to see featured, fill in the form below and we'll send you an e-mail if/when we plan to use it.
Using this resource Your privacy. Release Your Inhibitions - Writing Resources. No matter how techie our lives have become, good writing is still a requirement to succeed at school and professionally.
Good writing helps see in the world from a different angle, may be cathartic and most of all, good writing may be a pleasure. Now - how to get students writing? Yes, there are journals to write, quick notes to pass around, stories with beginnings, middles and endings. Yes, writers need to heed to sentence fluency and word choice, organisation and conventions.
And yet.... how to release students' inhibitions when it comes to actually writing? 100 Word Story is a collection of stories written in 100 words. The Write At Home Blog includes reflections on the many varying aspects of writing, from how words sound to grammar rules. As for learners? Here are some suggestions: NoRedInk - to practice Grammar and Writing Skills Fraze.It - how to use a particular word in a sentence. Free Microsoft Office Tutorials at GCFLearnFree. Day 9 - Bullets & Numbering - Word Processing with Office 07.