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Colonial Life - Making a Colony. Lesson Plan - Chinese New Year. Multicultural COWs (Elementary, Mathematics. A Match Made in the Classroom! If you are seeking a new way to add relevancy to your classroom math activities, the answer may be right in your school library!

A Match Made in the Classroom!

Literature is the ideal vehicle to help your students see the importance of numbers in their daily lives. Included: Author Marilyn Burns is one educator who says, "Math and literature together? Why not! " She shares her thoughts with Education World. Plus more ideas for integrating math and literature! "I've found throughout my teaching career that students are my best teachers, that the more I understand how children think and reason, the better I'm able to find ways to help them learn," author Marilyn Burns told Education World. In Books by Marilyn Burns, Burns uses traditional and original literature to address mathematical concepts. "Combining math and literature in classroom activities is a way for teachers to invite children into the world of math," stated Burns.

Powell has even borrowed from Hollywood to make her point! Lesson Ideas. (August 2011) My current lesson idea is making a math trail around the school area.

Lesson Ideas

I have been thinking about going out to the track that is at my school and trying to video tape someone running and jumping in to the sand pit (long jump). That function describing them jumping at a time is described by a square root function which can be anything. The current algebra book we are using describes it as y=10√x. Measured in the maximum height at time t. (October 17, 2011) I have had this idea of taking pictures on the smart board and using the line tool with one arrow, twice to form angles. Talks. Khan Academy. Junior Achievement - Educating youth on business, economics, and succeeding in a global economy. Math and Literature.com. Teachers Network. How It Works: The students take a virtual cyber tour to learn about the Lewis and Clark Expedition funded by Congress in 1803.

Teachers Network

Since this is the two hundredth anniversary of the expedition, the book Lewis and Clark On The Trail Of Discovery was read in the classroom. In one of the lessons the children each choose a topic from the story and fully investigate it, examples of topics are a keelboat, how to supply a camp, the Corps of Discovery or Sacagawea. They search for information using online search engines as well as CD-Rom encyclopedias, various websites and e-mail Standards: Uses writing processes effectively Writes to communicate effectively Constructs meaning from a wide range of tests Explores on-line services as an information source Uses compact discs as an information source Uses math operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Estimated Class Periods To Complete: 6-8 Students: There are twenty-five students in my class.

Impact II: Projects & Lesson Plans: Coming to America. Coming To America HOW IT WORKS Coming To America teaches students about the history of immigration in the United States: how it has affected the population of our country, and how it continues to change and influence its development.

Impact II: Projects & Lesson Plans: Coming to America

We learn about the many different groups of people who have left their country of origin for the United States. We explore some of the reasons someone might be compelled to come to America, leaving their past and perhaps their possessions and family members behind. And we discuss the different feelings that a new immigrant to this country might have, as well as what a person might experience upon entering his/her new home.

Students also get a chance to discuss and explore the backgrounds, experiences, and stories that are part of their own family history. THE STAFF Frances Hidalgo is the teacher of a third-grade integrated class at P.S. 164 Caesar Rodney School in Brooklyn, New York. Multicultural Science Education: Myths, Legends, and Moon Phases. School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Multicultural Science Education: Myths, Legends, and Moon Phases by Andrea B.

Multicultural Science Education: Myths, Legends, and Moon Phases

Freed In the preface of Teaching Science for All Children, the authors indicate that our mission as science teachers is to find effective ways to help learners construct their own understandings by incorporating their ideas into a fabric of concepts, skills and attitudes that carries meaning for them both academically and personally (Martin, Sexton, Wagner & Gerlovich, 1997). An important aspect of this idea is that teachers need to be aware of the diversity within their classrooms and facilitate the learning of all students, many with cultural backgrounds that differ from the mainstream. In an effort to meet the requirements laid out by the National Science Education Standards (NSES, 1996), teachers need to recognize and respond to student diversity and encourage all students to fully participate in science learning (Teaching Standard B).

The Story of Annigan 1. Teachers Network. Grandfather Tang and Little Soo were sitting under a peach tree in their backyard.

Teachers Network

They were amusing each other by making different shapes in their tangram puzzle. "Let's do a story about the fox fairies, (Chou and Wu Ling)," said Little Soo. So Grandfather Tang arranged his seven tangram pieces into the shape of a fox.