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End-Of-The-Year Scavenger Hunt at Lakeshore Learning. The Magic School Bus. TREND enterprises, Inc. | Teacher-Created Learning Products. Super Teacher Tools. RubiStar Home. SMILE PROGRAM PHYSICS INDEX. The SMILE website is hosted by the Illinois Institute of Technology The following is a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons. These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyright property of the author(s) and the directors of the SMILE program. The Physics lessons are divided into the following categories: Matter, Mechanics, Fluids, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Sound and Optics, and Miscellaneous. MatterIntroduction to the Periodic Table by Estellvenia Sanders - Chicago Vocational Tempting Temperatures by Marjorie Fields - Ella Flagg Young Air: Demonstrating Its Presence and Effects by Porter Johnson - Illinois Institute of Technology Density by Marilyn Martello - Clinton Air Movement by Lisa C.

Ingram - Frederick Douglass Middle Academy Gases Lighter and Heavier than Air by Bonnie Anderson - Libby School Annex States of Matter by Kathleen Moore - O. W. Pearltrees - Google Chrome extension gallery. Get work done by playing Homeworkopoly. Thanks to all of our reader suggestions, we are now able to make the Homeworkopoly game board available. Measuring 35 inches square, it’s large enough to use on a bulletin board. If you have suggestions for improving the design or adding to our stack of Chance cards, please email us.

Thanks to Teachnet contributors Karen Hull and Ketrina Jordan for their suggestions. More bulletin board art is located at the Teachnet Classroom Decor page Download Game Board with street names.Download Game Board without street names (make up your own for your city)Download Chance Cards (includes blank cards for making your own) Homeworkopoly Instructions Homeworkopoly is a fun way to encourage children to do their homework! In order for a student to play the game, he or she must complete their homework from the night before and hand it in to the teacher.

Setup 1. Getting Started 1. Special Spaces Last but not least…Enjoy! Global Warming. April 5 , 2004 Could global warming turn Earth's climate upside down? Thunderous tornadoes demolish Los Angeles. Bowling-ball size hailstones rain down on Tokyo. Why the sudden onslaught of deadly weather? Global warming has triggered a series of natural disasters—including a monster storm that’s racing south from the Arctic. Panicked? Could global warming (an average increase in Earth’s temperature) really turn Earth’s climate (weather conditions of an area) upside down as it did in The Day After Tomorrow? On the silver screen and in real life, global warming is the villain. The trouble starts when unusually large amounts of greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere. In The Day After Tomorrow, rising global temperatures lead to a big freeze. The North Atlantic Ocean would be a lot colder if it weren’t for the great ocean conveyor belt, an ocean-current system that slowly wends its way around the globe.

Scientists fear global warming could weaken or shut down the ocean’s conveyor. David Brin's Official Web Site: Movies that help to teach science. Me Templates. PowerPoint Games. Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students. By Drs. Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty, University of Pennsylvania The expression "hands-on, minds-on" summarizes the philosophy we have incorporated in these activities - namely, that students will learn best if they are actively engaged and if their activities are closely linked to understanding important biological concepts.

Many of our activities are explicitly aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, as indicated by (NGSS) in the descriptions below and the links to the right. Additional information is provided in Summary Tables and in the Teacher Preparation Notes for these activities. To accommodate limited budgets, most of our activities can be carried out with minimum equipment and expense for supplies. Additional resources for teaching biology are available at More Minds on Activities for Teaching Biology. Read More Intro and Biological Molecules Is Yeast Alive? Enzymes Help Us Digest Food(revised, July, 2016) Who Took Jerell's iPod?

More Minds-on Activities. How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class. Have you ever plunked yourself down in a staff meeting where some of your colleagues were, for lack of a better phrase, not paying attention? Grading homework? Having private conversations? Texting? As we know all too well, kids aren't a whole lot different than adults: If they aren't absorbed by what's going on, they'll find something else that interests them.

Getting all your students focused, eager, and on task at the beginning of class is challenging enough. Equally problematic, once you have them locked in to the lesson, is watching them zone out. There's nothing unusual about that. Still, unless you manage to capture and keep students' focus, whether at the beginning of or midway through class, the engine of student learning that you are trying to drive simply isn't even in gear. From Dead Time to Active Learning I call this lack of engagement dead time. I have come to feel that dead time is so pernicious that I will do everything I can to prevent even the hint of an outbreak. 1. 2.

Bill Nye the Science Guy. Online Creative Writing Courses Offered Free by Top Universities and Educational Websites. Getting Educated for Free 1. Introductory Courses Introduction to Creative Writing - University of Utah Course Creative Writing 101 - Eight Lesson Suite101 Course Intro to Creative Writing - Eight Week Course from the Crafty Writer Creative Writing Workshop - Four Lesson Suite 101 Course Writing What You Know - Introductory Course from the UK's Open University 2.

Fiction Writing Introduction to Fiction - Undergraduate Course from MIT Start Writing Fiction - Introductory Course from the UK's Open University Introduction to Screenwriting - Steve Barnes' Nine Week UCLA Writing Course Approaching Prose Fiction - Intermediate Course from the UK's Open University Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy - Quick Launch or In-Depth Courses for Writers of All Ages 3. 4. 5. 6. Utilizing Your Creative Writing Knowledge Writers do not necessarily need a degree to be successful. You can be published online, in magazines, newspapers, trade publications and in books. Salary Potential. Using the apostrophe 1. Ited Nations Cyberschoolbus.

Gizmos! Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding. Reading Rockets: Reading Comprehension & Language Arts Teaching Strategies for Kids. Edheads - Activate Your Mind! Ide@s - teacher-reviewed, standards-aligned lessons, interactive tools, video, high-quality digital images, and other resources for use in curriculum development and classroom instruction.

The Encyclopedia of Arda. The Encyclopedia of Arda is a personal project - a tribute to and a celebration of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site is evolving into an illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples. It already contains about four thousand entries, and we're constantly adding new entries and expanding existing ones. Inside the encyclopedia The Encyclopedia of Arda contains thousands of articles covering topics from J.R.R. You'll also find a selection of interactive tools, including a chronicle to help you explore Tolkien's fictional history, and calendar to translate dates and events, a lexicon of names, a glossary of old and rare words, and much more.

Context and approach The content of the Encyclopedia is written in the same context as Tolkien himself used; he presented himself simply as a translator, rather than originator of the tales. About the name Arda Special thanks But the real Special Thanks, though, belong to the memory of J.R.R. Smithsonian Education - Welcome. Seanan McGuire: Fairy Tale Survival FAQ. Have you ever wondered how to respond when a strange man on the street offers you six magic beans in exchange for the family cow?

Are you unclear on how one survives encounters with witches, dragons, giants, and worst of all, pixies? Then the Fairy Tale and Ballad Survival FAQ is exactly what you need to keep you alive long enough to get to "happily ever after. " From elves and gnomes to magic mirrors and enchanted princesses, we'll try to address your biggest concerns. As with all magical spells, results are not guaranteed. Once upon a time...

Before you can be helped through the fairy tale or ballad in which you are trapped, we must first determine whether you're actually in a fairy tale, since the logic of such stories is not like our Earth logic. 1. If the answer to more than half of these questions is "yes," you may well be stranded in a fairy tale. Return to Top of Page Q: What should I bring with me if I think there's a chance I'm going to wind up in a fairy tale? A: No. A: No. 21 Brilliant Productivity Tools Every College Student Must Use: Get Degrees. If you ask a college student about productivity, he won't have much to say. And you really can't blame him. He leads a dynamic life where academics and fun go hand in hand, with the latter becoming a more important activity most of the times.

However, with the advent of internet and web 2.0, a college student now has access to so many amazing tools that he could finish up his work as well as enjoy life to the fullest without the guilt. The following list mentions 21 such tools which could skyrocket the productivity of college students when it comes to doing research, communicating with fellow students and dealing with assignments. Research and Taking Notes 1.Questia Questia is an excellent online research tool which features a huge web based library of magazines, books, journals, papers, articles and much more.

Although you need to pay about $19.95 per month for its membership, you could save on books and magazines you buy if you subscribe to it. 2.Free Book Notes 3.Wikipedia 4.Notely 7. Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. CTL Events - Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching. Transition words. To improve your writing you need to make sure that your ideas, both in sentences and paragraphs, stick together or have coherence and that the gap between ideas is bridged smoothly.

One way to do this is by using transitions - words or phrases or techniques that help bring two ideas together. Transitional words and phrases represent one way of gaining coherence. Certain words help continue an idea, indicate a shift of though or contrast, or sum up a conclusion. Check the following list of words to find those that will pull your sentences and paragraphs together.

For continuing a common line of reasoning: consequently clearly, then furthermore additionally and in addition moreover because besides that in the same way following this further also pursuing this further in the light of the... it is easy to see that To change the line of reasoning (contrast): however on the other hand but yet nevertheless on the contrary For opening a paragraph initially or for general use: finally lastly. Homepage. Holocaust Resources for Teachers. AR BookFinder US - Quick Search. Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century. 10 Great Classroom Icebreakers. 1. Self-Portrait. Have your students draw themselves. After they have done this, collect the papers and hang them up for the whole class to see.

Now have students try to guess who the artists was for each picture. 2. Letter Writing. At the beginning of the year, write a short letter about yourself as the teacher. 3. Give each student an index card. 4. Have the students get into a circle. 5. Pass around a sheet of paper and some pens. 6. Call out any month of the year and have all students born in that month come up to the front of the room. 7.

Have the students draw pictures about what they like to do, what their favorite foods are, and what is their favorite subject in school. 8. Don't forget about this old time favorite part of class. 9. Have students write three things about themselves on a piece of paper. 10. Line up the students in two lines facing each other. Teacher Tom’s ping pong art. We picked up this great idea the other day from ‘Teacher Tom‘. We were attracted by the a post titled -‘Boy Art‘ and we figured any idea that attract boys to try creative activities is definitely worth giving a go!

We’ve always enjoyed offering the children marbles to paint with. It’s a fun creative exercise where the children dip marbles into paint … drop them into trays lined with paper and roll them around. It provides a wonderful opportunity for pattern making … and any one who’s been following our blog for any length of time will know we believe you can never have too many opportunities for colour mixing! Thanks to Tom we were able to add a new dimension to this popular activity. Using our removable tray-table-top we headed outside into our wonderful Melbourne, autumn weather … and using ping pong balls dipped in paint, instead of marbles, we set the children free to create!

So, just like Tom’s students, our Red Group children used the straws to hit the balls around on the paper. Folklore, Myth and Legend. Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc. Storyline Online. Roald Dahl - The Official Web Site. Dr. Seuss | Seussville.com.

Enjoy England - Storybook England - Home. Lemony Snicket. Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming - MindMeister. I Love That Teaching Idea! Introducing the Thinking Classroom. The Thinking Classroom: Ways of Thinking. Effective thinking-centered instruction aims to achieve two educational objectives: To cultivate the active use of knowledge, and To help students become self-regulated learners.

Toward that end, this section of The Thinking Classroom highlights four thinking-centered approaches for infusing high-level thinking instruction into your regular curriculum. The Ways of Teaching Thinking region features a preview and description of each of the approaches. Why These Four Approaches? The four approaches to teaching thinking represent some of the research and products of the Harvard's Cognitive Skills Group. But more important, the four approaches together broadly attend to the core components of the instructional enterprise - from curriculum design, to implementation, to assessment. Ways of Teaching Thinking: 4 Instructional Approaches. Websites for Educators. Don't Pay for Technology: 25 Freebies for Students. Jun 29, 2009 In today's economic climate, paying for technology isn't prudent, and for some students, it isn't even an option.

Fortunately, there are plenty of freebies on the web that can help with document creation, research, writing, storage, collaboration, studying and more. Here are 25 free web apps and software programs that may be useful to students. Document Creation Zoho Office - Zoho Office is an amazing suite of web-based productivity and collaboration tools. The suite includes free email, a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, a presentation creator and more. OpenOffice - The OpenOffice suite of tools can do all of the same things as the pricey Microsoft Office--for free. Research and Writing Schoolr - This meta search engine combines other academic search engines to make research faster and more efficient for students. Online Storage and Collaboration ADrive - Offering more than 50 GB of free storage, ADrive is one of the best places to upload and store files online.