Explodingsink.com · education, technology, science and life. Marcia's Science Teaching Blog. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Resources For Planning The First Day Of School. Check out my three-part series in Education Week teacher including first day advice from many of the top thinkers and teachers around The summer always feels so long at the beginning and so short at the end…. It’s getting that time again — a new school year. I have an extensive chapter in my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, on getting the school year off to a good start, and I thought I’d also share here some free online resources. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Planning The First Day Of School: I’ve got to start off with a previous post titled Answers To “What Do You Do On The First Day Of School?” My Teachers Leaders Network colleague Jane Fung wrote a two-part article on this topic for Education Week Teacher.
Another talented TLN colleague, Elena Aguilar, wrote Teaching Secrets: First Days in the Elementary Classroom. Peter Pappas, as always, has some very creative and useful ideas at First Day of School? What Is Your Technique For Memorizing Student Names? First day of school, biology (sophomores) First we went through the usual introductory ritual--see the previous post. I brought a slug to school today. I saw him creeping on the stoop last night, and enticed him into a container with a pellet of fish food.
The first picture I show the class is a series of hominids representing human evolution. I ask if we descended from chimpanzees, listen to the answers, then gruffly announce no way we came from chimpanzees. (A few look puzzled, though I might get a smug look from a budding creationist--he's one of us.) After a very brief statement that no biologists believe we descended from chimpanzees, everyone looks confused, even my smug co-conspirator. We went through some more procedural nonsense, then I showed a photograph of a slug. Hey, that's a slug! "Yep," I agree, "Limax maximus. Um, it's slow? "Can you see that?
" A young woman, and one I suspect who will do well, notes that the slug in the picture is in some leaves, and that maybe it likes to eat them. Pour salt on it It saw it! EcneicsciencE. NASHOSPHERE - exploring the elements of science literacy... literally. My Second Wind. ScienceFix - Science Fix.
Beatrice the Biologist. Cool Cat Teacher Blog.