Five-Minute Film Festival: Teaching in a Winter Wonderland. Ahhhh, February.
The shortest, bleakest, and often chilliest month (well, at least for those in the northern hemisphere). The holidays are well behind us, but spring seems a long way off. So what teaching and learning inspiration can we pull from the flurries, the gray skies, the cold? While you're scraping the ice off your car, take a moment to consider the beauty, the power, and the potential teachable moments of winter. To get you started, I've gathered a collection of videos that explore winter themes in every subject. Video Playlist: Best Videos for Teaching in Winter Keep watching the player below to see the rest of the playlist, or view it on YouTube. The Chemistry of Snowflakes - Bytesize Science (02:07) This little animated piece from the American Chemical Society tracks the journey of snowflakes, from their origins in bits of dust in clouds to the crystalline form we all love so well.
More Resources for Teaching About Winter see more see less. CRAP TEST by Sydnye C on Prezi. The Best of the Humanities on the Web. Eclection - Speed Dating For Books. Orientation inspiration. Facebook Template. DigitalStorytelling4Kids [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Sandbox. Digital Storytelling for Young Learners. Creating Character Profiles « Rhondda's Reflections – wandering around the Web. Posted on June 17, 2011 by Rhondda After reading about this type of activity a few years ago I finally got to introduce it to a class.
Yesterday an English class of year 7 boys worked on this task that required them to consider the characters in their novels. This approach worked very well as an English class activity. It focussed our Year 7 boys on the characters in their novels. The boys had been working in literature circle groups for almost a term. This character profile will help them later when the have to create an interview podcast as the final task on the book This year I also had them create a facebook-like page for their character as well. On the “facebook page” the boys had to: Include basic profile data – age, education, family info, make up networks the character may belong to, education, etc. including an image of or avatar representing the character.
This activity worked very well with the boys. Like this: Like Loading... Printable Paper. Find the Fairy Tale: A Scavenger Hunt in the Library. MNPS Digital Bloom's Poster - MNPS Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Cool Charts & Timelines.
Six Scaffolding Strategies to Use with Your Students. What’s the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? Saying to students, “Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday.” Yikes! No safety net, no parachute—they’re just left to their own devices. Let’s start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids.
Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common, though. So let’s get to some scaffolding strategies you may or may not have tried yet. 1. How many of us say that we learn best by seeing something rather than hearing about it? Try a fishbowl activity, where a small group in the center is circled by the rest of the class; the group in the middle, or fishbowl, engages in an activity, modeling how it’s done for the larger group. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google. Lessons by Grade Level. Scavenger Hunts.