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15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly
15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly Engaging online wrting is informal, conversational, and fun, but certain goofy mistakes just make you look silly... and not in a good way. 1. Your / You're Your
Gapminder – some teaching ideas
Updated 4/2/07Gapminder is a BRILLIANT way to analyse development indicators. A range of development data can be plotted on a map or chart and animated over time. Gapminder website Here are some suggested activites to introduce the Gapminder site to students Download an illustrated guide to Gapminder (Word doc) Thanks very much to Val Vannet who produced the first version of this document.
Differentiation: setting learning objectives and outcomes
Schools will use different systems for setting objectives, but it's expected that pupils will know – by being told or by seeing these displayed on the board – what the learning objectives are. I would strongly advise that pupils copy down these learning objectives, or stick them into their books so that they can refer to them both during and after the lesson. When setting your learning objectives you need to be clear about what you expect the learning outcomes to be.
Symbols Homepage
The State of Illinois has eighteen official state symbols, which are pictured below and listed in the menu on the left . Click on a symbol's picture or on a link in the lefthand menu to learn more about the symbol and find a list of books or Web sites where you can find out more. Click on Games in the menu to find a list of online and hands-on activities you can do while learning about the Illinois State symbols.
Five Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning
Voiceover: How will today’s children function in a dangerous world? What means will they use to carve the future? Will they be equipped to find the answers to tomorrow’s problems? Teacher: When you think about traditional learning you think of a student sitting in a classroom and being talked at. Teacher: Now I imagine a lot of you are still thinking... Teacher: They are supposed to be a sponge.
5 Ways to Use Audiobooks to Help Struggling Readers
Traditionally, audiobooks have been used in the classroom to help students with visual impairments or learning disabilities such as dyslexia. Now, however, experts are realizing the power of audiobooks to help students who struggle with many different issues and aspects of reading. Here are five creative ways you can use audiobooks in the classroom to help these readers. 1.
Using Round and Square Brackets - Grammar Lesson on Brackets
Round Brackets for Additional Information Round brackets are used to insert additional information in text. If you were to remove the brackets and the information inside, the text would still work. For example:
Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society (BIAS)
Bristol Carriageworks BIAS try to keep an eye on planning applications which affect old industrial archaeological sites. Bitton paper mill 25 Feb 2015: Planning application PK15/0532/F has ben lodged with S Glos for major housing development on site of Bitton paper mill. Mixed use development on 7.4 hectares of land comprising up to 115no new dwellings; change of use of the Gatehouse to commercial use (Use Class B1); change of use of existing 'canteen' building to commercial and community uses (Use Classes B1/D1); engineering works to raise the raise the existing ground levels; associated landscaping and the retention of Ash House and Heather House in residential use (Use Class C3) | Golden Valley Mill Bath Road Bitton Gloucestershire BS30 6HJTo comment use the South Gloucester link by 9th March.
Measurement Worksheets
Welcome to the measurement worksheets page at Math-Drills.com where you can measure up, measure down or measure all around! This page includes Measurement worksheets for length, area, angles, volume, capacity, mass, time and temperature in Metric, U.S. and Imperial units. Measurement concepts and skills give students the ability to perform tasks related to everyday life. Length, area, volume, capacity, mass, time and temperature are measurement concepts that people are exposed to everyday.
PBL Gallery
Home | Getting Started | Modules | Resources | About Us View the work of teachers who developed and implemented PBL units/mini-units. Feel free to download and use the PBL as a template for your work with students. We appreciate your feedback.
Download 20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books
Every year, thousands of American high school students read a common selection of great novels — classics loved by young and old readers alike. Today, we have selected 20 of the most popular books and highlighted ways that you can download versions for free, mostly as free audio books and ebooks, and sometimes as movies and radio dramas. You will find more great works — and sometimes other digital formats — in our twin collections: 600 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices and 550 Free Audio Books. So please give them a good look over, and if we’re missing a novel you want, don’t forget Audible.com’s 14 day trial. It will let you download an audio book for free, pretty much any one you want. 1984 by George Orwell: Free eBook – Free Audio Book – Free Movie Although published in 1949, 1984 still captures our imagination generations later because it offers one of the best literary accounts of totalitarianism ever published.
15 Amazing Animated Short films
We all love short animated films, but creating short film is very hard task. Putting whole story in 5 to 10 minutes is not easy. Can you imagine? Few films produced after working hard more than 6 years!
