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BBC - KS2 Bitesize: English - Deduction - read
Print Poets and authors use similes and metaphors to describe things. It’s easy to get similes and metaphors mixed up because they are very similar, but they aren’t quite the same.EdIncubator" projects are designed to help education projects or initiatives build advisory councils with real educators, administrators, parents, and students giving real feedback. Current projects are below.
Thomas Petra's Page - Classroom 2.0
"The interest in game-based learning has accelerated considerably in recent years, driven by clear successes in military and industrial training as well as by emerging research into the cognitive benefits of game play. Developers and researchers are working in every area of game-based learning, including games that are goal-oriented; social game environments; non-digital games that are easy to construct and play; games developed expressly for education; and commercial games that lend themselves to refining team and group skills. At the low end of game technology, there are literally thousands of ways games can be — and are already being — applied in learning contexts.
Games in Education - home
Teaching Drawing Skills, by Carolyn Holm
Drawing can be a wonderful tool for creativity. But many of us lack confidence in our ability to draw. Here you'll find drawing skills lessons that can be explored in the classroom (it's also ideal for homeschoolers).Enter to win a FREE copy of Adobe’s Digital School Collection in the @AdobeEdu , #ADSC Tweetaway! Adobe’s Digital School Collection is a key mechanism for augmenting classroom instruction while helping students learn lifelong communication skills for the digital age. Be sure to pay attention to the @AdobeEdu twitter account for your chance to retweet & win!
How The #ADSC Hashtag Can Earn You Free Educational Software | Edudemic
Teachers Helping Every Student Reach Their Potential: Teach Up I never get tired of reading the thoughts and ideas that Carol Ann Tomlinson shares with the educational community about how to meet students’ needs. Having seen her in action as a presenter, she is very captivating and convincing. The books and articles she has authored, many of which I have read, are scholarly, well-written, and lay out a vision for excellence in teaching. In the February 2012 edition of Educational Leadership , she co-authored an article with Edwin Lou Javius titled, Teach Up for Excellence . It was one of the most inspiring pieces I have read and gave me a great deal to think about in my work with teachers.
Teach Up: Create a classroom that works for all students « Center for Teaching
Enriching Primary Science is a collection of new activities that will provide science enrichment for primary children, in particular extending learning for the gifted and talented child Written by John Senior and Angela Tuff Enriching Primary Science offers challenging enrichment activities that aim to inspire more children to study science, encourage scientific literacy among all children, foster creativity with regard to scientific thinking and stimulate an informed debate among children about the application and direction that science takes in our increasingly complex society.
Enriching Primary Science
StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
The StarChild site is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) , Dr. Alan Smale (Director) , within the Astrophysics Science Division (ASD) at NASA/ GSFC .Explore how math can help us in our daily lives by looking at the language of numbers through common situations, such as playing games or cooking.
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School Subjects | English Attack! – English 2.0
Feb 28th, 2011
Fun, in practice – Teaching Village
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We have focused on making a tool that makes it ultra easy to draw on maps, we have polished the user experience using a large amounts of feedback from our users, and we continue to improve on a regular basis.
Scribble Maps - Draw on google maps with scribblings and more!
As I sit down to write this, I look at the calendar and notice that it is the middle of January. We have been in school for approximately 15 weeks. In this short period of time, I have witnessed several amazing changes in the lives of my students.

