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Science for Kids. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: science, preK-2, 3-5, 6-8 Science for Kids offers 150 hands-on activities, puzzles, and games for students and teachers in grades 2-6.
Activities cover chemical & physical change, states of matter, motion & energy, Earth, human body, art & toys, and interviews with chemists. Each heading includes a test your knowledge section. Every activity is in PDF format. Architect Studio 3D. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: arts, language arts, mathematics, social studies, 3-5, 6-8 With Architect Studio 3D students in grades 5-8 can design houses and share them with others.
They explore architecture and learn about Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work while gaining practice in subject skills. Visionlearning. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: science, 6-8, 9-12 Visionlearning offers science learning modules in English and Spanish for teachers and students in grades 6-12.
Requires free registration. Students must be 13 or older to register. Popplet. ArtsEdge. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: language arts, preK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 ArtsEdge is the Kennedy Center’s educational media arm providing arts and cross-curricular materials for K-12 students and educators.
Sixty Symbols. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: science, 9-12 Sixty Symbols comprises hundreds of short videos by experts from The University of Nottingham about the substance underlying the symbols of physics, astronomy, and more.
Me, Myself and Math. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: mathematics, 9-12 Me, Myself and Math is a six-part series that looks at us and our place in the cosmos mathematically.
The author, Steven Strogatz, is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. No specialized knowledge or background is required to appreciate the discussions. Each essay includes notes and citations and links for further investigation. Essay Map. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: language arts, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12.
EekoWorld. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: science, social studies, preK-2, 3-5 EekoWorld (Environmental Education for Kids Online) informs K-4 students about the role they play in taking care of Earth.
Learning Games & Interactives for Students. BAM! Body and Mind. By Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer Found In: health & p.e., 6-8 BAM!
Body and Mind (CDC) gives students in grades 5-8 information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. It focuses on disease, food and nutrition, physical activity, safety, stress, and the body. Kepler’s Tally of Planets - Interactive Feature. The Knowledge Network.
Process Skills. Common Sense Media. STEM. Engineering. Technology. Sustainability Curriculum. PBL. Science Standards & Resources. Game Based Learning. PD 2013-2015. ELI: Home. An Animated History of the Tulip. Alsgillespie : Cereal box repurposed as a... Whole Child Virtual Conference - Archives. Archives ASCD's Whole Child Virtual Conference is a free, online virtual conference that provides a forum and tools for school sites and districts around the world working toward sustainability and changing school cultures to serve the whole child.
Did you attend one of the virtual conference sessions or view the session archives? Download, fill-in, and print out a professional development certificate for the sessions you attended and viewed online. Topics Aligning Health and Education Integrating Health/Social Development Programs with the Whole Child Approach and Within Education Systems. Daily chart: The size of it. How the world's population has changed THE world in 1950 looked very different from how it does now. Europe was home to 22% of the world's 2.3 billion people. Germany, Britain, Italy and France all counted among the 12 most populous countries. But strong economic growth in Asia coupled with high fertility rates in Africa have caused a big regional shift in the global population.
The UN's latest World Population Prospects expects the world to grow from 7.2 billion people today to 9.6 billion in 2050.
Bozemanscience - videos on all parts of #Ngss. Guy dressed as Darth Vader runs Death Valley in 129-degree heat - CNET Mobile. Jonathan Rice on his 2012 run. (Credit: Jonathan Rice) Say it five times fast: "Darth Vader-dressed dude dashes in Death Valley. " It sounds like a comic convention fever dream, but it's very real. Jonathan Rice is a fan of heat running. It's pretty much what it sounds like. Rice is the originator of the Darth Valley Challenge , a personal challenge he sets himself to run a mile through Death Valley at the height of its heat, all the while dressed as everyone's favorite "Star Wars" villain, mask and all. The most recent Darth Valley Challenge took place on June 30 when the National Weather Service recorded a temperature of 129 degrees. ODNR Project Wild/Aquatic Wild, Science & Civics Training Registration. Alsgillespie : Coding today @pltworg AR... Inducing Labor May Be Tied to Autism, Study Says.
The biggest study of its kind suggests autism might be linked with inducing and speeding up labor, preliminary findings that need investigating since labor is induced in increasing numbers of U.S. women, the authors and other autism experts say. It's possible that labor-inducing drugs might increase the risk — or that the problems that lead doctors to start labor explain the results. These include mothers' diabetes and fetal complications, which have previously been linked with autism. Teachers Must Let Students Use Their Mobile Phones In Classrooms. Welcome to Forbes. Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. The free encyclopedia. Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn. Teaching Strategies Bruce Guenter What’s the key to effective learning?
One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know. To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about the subject at hand (say, mathematics or history) and knowledge about how learning works. The Most Important Skill of the 21st Century. The average American adult spends at least 8 hours a day in front of a screen. Computers are becoming increasingly relevant to both working and home life and Americans now rely on processors for a number of essential tasks. So it makes sense that being able to program computers is an important skill, possibly the most important of the 21st century. “[Writing code] is the new literacy. In this century if you want to have the power to change the world, writing code is the most practical thing you can do,” says Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit and author of the new book Without Their Permission.
Dad's Awesome Reaction to Son's Math Score. Map: Where You Don’t Want to Be When It Hits the Fan. Kid President's Pep Talk to Teachers and Students! Sign Me Up! The Elementary Email Solution: Linked Gmail Accounts. One of my biggest stumbling blocks as I’ve switched gears from middle to elementary school is individual e-mail accounts for the students.
2007-10-17_2349 - courosa. Pinterest. The brains behind the viral Goldieblox video. Debbie Sterling, CEO of Goldieblox (photo courtesy of Goldieblox) The woman behind a video that recently exploded online–the one showing three girls creating a Rube Goldberg machine out of princess toys, with music set to a modified version of the Beastie Boys’ 1987 hit “Girls”–is a Stanford engineer, yes. She’s also a savvy marketer with viral video expertise. Two years ago, Debbie Sterling created Goldieblox, the girls’ construction and storybook toy start-up that now counts its products among the top-selling toys on Amazon after the commercial went viral (it currently has more than 6 million views on YouTube).
Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement. Conan Shows Us That Main Stream Media Is Scripted. NESbox - play NES, SNES, SEGA games online! Cleveland schools nudging parents to comply with the law and meet their kids' teachers. CLEVELAND, Ohio – About 15,000 Cleveland children will be giving their parents an extra message from school along with their report cards this week: Get in to the school and meet with my teacher. It's not a request. It's the law. It's a law unique to the Cleveland school district and a nudge the district hopes will draw lagging parents to schools this week for parent-teacher conferences, now that the school year has reached its halfway point.
It's also a reminder to teachers and schools in the district that parent and teacher communication is a greater priority in Cleveland now, and something the district and state are tracking. The Teaching Profession: Then and Now. Back in the early 1970s, I was invited to give a keynote speech at a National Science Teachers Association meeting. Alsgillespie : Multitasking at its best! Love... A New York and Chicago Mom Discover What Standardized Rigor Really Means for Their Children. I recently volunteered to be on the frontlines of testing.
I offered to help during the MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) test administered to my daughter’s kindergarten class. For two days the teacher needed to be pulled out of the classroom along with all of the kids. They would be set up in a room with computers where the test would be given. Parents were needed to act more or less as proctors during the test, being on hand to assist with the equipment, then acting as runners to take the kids who had completed the test back to their classroom. Kid President's Letter To A Person On Their First Day Here. Why high-level World of Warcraft players make better employees than Harvard MBAs. SmartBrief is partnering with Big Think to create a weekly video spotlight in SmartBrief on Leadership called “VIP Corner: Video Insights Powered by Big Think.” This week, we’re featuring John Seely Brown, independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge and adviser to the provost and visiting scholar at the University of Southern California.
Due to the nature of the online game, high-level players of World of Warcraft make better employees than those who have an MBA from Harvard, John Seely Brown, independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge and adviser to the provost and visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, says. He points out that in order to become a high-level player of the game, one has to have both the ability and the drive to adapt to thousands of new ideas, work in groups and constantly measure his or her own performance. It is for these reasons that Seely Brown says high-level World of Warcraft players make ideal employees. Equity and Fairness in Higher Education. This second grader’s revenge against Common Core math will make your day. This second grader’s revenge against Common Core math will make your day The litany of frighteningly stupid Common Core math worksheets never ends. A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom.
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