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Teacher Tips at The Virtual Vine Information on this page provided for classroom use only; not for publication. thevirtualvine.com 2003 Teacher Tips Liquid Soap: My very favorite tip is probably one that I picked up last summer. Wind a large rubberband around the nozzle of the soap dispenser so that when the students push it down, it only goes down about half way. Word War: The Difference in Meaning and Usage of Geek, Nerd, and Dork Geeks and nerds and dorks, oh my! This isn’t Kansas anymore, Toto, and it’s also not mid-twentieth-century America, a time and place that had the Bill Gateses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world pegged as the walking, talking intersections of social awkwardness, poor fashion sense, highfalutin intelligence, and a strange technophilia. The attitude towards GNDs (geeks, nerds and dorks) has changed tremendously, as have the definitions attached to the terms. The formerly caustic connotations carried by these words have been neutralized, which also means their meanings have converged and the labels themselves seem more interchangeable.
How to Lift Your Mood? Try Smiling My personal trainer sometimes gives me an odd piece of advice during workouts: "Relax your face." For a long time, I found this advice confusing. Isn't physical exertion supposed to be expressed in grimaces? I thought of the face as a pressure-relief valve that helps emit the pain the body is experiencing.
Elementary Education Resources: Kindergarten Elementary Education Resources: Kindergarten List of Contents (click on topic name for more links) Special section contributed by Mrs. UK slang for international students By Sophie Cannon at Education UK, 27 January 2014 'Hiya mate, fancy a cuppa and a chin-wag?' 'I can't sorry pal, I'm skint. Gutted!' A Feel-Good Theory: A Smile Affects Mood PUTTING on a sad face or a smile directly produces the feelings that the expressions represent, according to a new theory of how emotions are produced. This view elaborates on ideas proposed more than a century ago by Charles Darwin and William James, the philosopher and psychologist. It holds that facial expressions are not just the visible sign of an emotion, but actually contribute to the feeling itself.
Creative Writing 1) Writing Traditional Stories from a Different Point of View 2) Design a New Room for the Chocolate Factory 3) Godzilla This idea is based on the Godzilla introduction found here Read the introduction to the children (you might need to photocopy it so that the children can refer to it during their writing) and ask them to continue the story. 4) Missing Person English Vocabulary for Getting a Haircut I don’t know about you but getting a haircut makes me really nervous. Now imagine not knowing the words you need in English to get your hair cut and looking nice and exactly how you want it again. Below is English vocabulary that you can use when you are getting your hair cut or planning a trip to the hair salon. Where do you get your hair cut? A Barber Shop A Hair Salon
5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety.