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End-Of-The-Year Scavenger Hunt at Lakeshore Learning
Plan a scavenger hunt…for information your class learned throughout the year! Create a list of questions whose answers can be found in books the class read during the year. (Make sure copies of the books are available in your classroom library or reading center.)
Our Flash Jeopardy Review Game tool is by far the most popular tool on the site. With this tool you can create a custom jeopardy review game for use in classrooms, training sessions, or anywhere else a fun, team based review game is appropriate. You can even download the Jeopardy Flash Player file to use games that you have created offline without an Internet connection!
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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 . The Great Tin Race by Bernina L. Norton - Abbott School
SMILE PROGRAM PHYSICS INDEX
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.
Get work done by playing Homeworkopoly - Teachnet.com
Global Warming | Scholastic.com
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?
Films based on history or true life stories: Apollo 13 (1995) "Houston, we have a problem." Ron Howard directed this stirring story of NASA's real-life crisis.
David Brin's Official Web Site: Movies that help to teach science
Password The PowerPoint game is simple to setup. The teacher types a vocabulary word on each slide in the subtitle textbox. Then press F5 on the keyboard to start the game. Setup directions are found on slide 2.
PowerPoint Games
Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students
Introduction to Biology Cell Division and Genetics Molecular Biology Evolution and Diversity Human PhysiologyWhen students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation. 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?
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia
Bill Nye the Science Guy
By Bill Nye | Published: February 2, 2012 – 10:06 am Audacious— that’s how I describe the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory radio telescope. For me, it was just hard to believe what I was seeing. I just returned from my first Planetary Society-sponsored trip to Puerto Rico and this historic, remarkable, big idea of a machine. If you’re not familiar with this observatory, it was featured in the movie Contact . It’s ideally suited for receiving signals from deep space and even for transmitting our signals out into the void.
Free courses are a great way to improve your writing skills. The courses shown here focus on several types of creative writing, including poetry, essay writing and fiction writing. Writers do not necessarily need a degree to be successful. There are many published writers who have not had any formal postsecondary education at all. This means that you should have no problem using your new creative writing knowledge and your natural talent to get into print.
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Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards. We partner with corporations, universities, and school systems throughout the United States, which help us research, design, and test our activities every step of the way. Not only do teachers and students appreciate our free activities, Edheads has been recognized by almost every major award on the Web for our excellent educational content. So click the "Choose an Activity" tab at the top of the page to dive into an activity and let the fun and learning begin!