Big Schools' Birdwatch Big Schools' Birdwatch is a simple activity that gets you and your class closer to the birds visiting your school grounds. Taking just one hour, the Birdwatch can be carried out in school, or by visiting a local outdoor space any time between 20 January - 14 February 2014. And every school or group that submits their results before the end of the activity will be sent a certificate and free personalised minibeast poster as a thank you for taking part. The Big Schools' Birdwatch works across a wide age and ability range. There's plenty of flexibility to run it as simply as you like, or as the centrepiece of cross-curricular studies, project work or as part of work to improve your school grounds. We also have specially designed resources for younger children. Which birds were top of the class this year?
Welcome to Discovery Education School Resources! School Resources offers clipart, free teaching resources and personalized classroom materials Skip Discover Education Main Navigation Classroom Resources > Puzzlemaker Terms of Use Privacy Policy Contact Us Technical Requirements Online Closed Captioning Careers @ Discovery Education Copyright © 2019 Discovery Education. All rights reserved. Foldables in Science | Science for All This is not a science specific resource, however, as an elementary teacher of science and as a professional development provider I have used Foldables to help learners better understand science concepts. If you are new to Foldables, they are essentially folded paper used as a graphic organizer. There are many flavors of Foldables: Cause & Effect, Venn Diagrams, mini-books, and more. If you found this post by searching for science & foldables, I would ask that you check out some of my other posts and add this blog to your science education bookmarks. I have been running this blog for over 3 years and there are over 750 posts about K-12 science education resources. Some of my favorite Foldables resource sites are the following: Applications for Science Teachers: Foldables help students build understanding through the use of visual and kinesthetic interactions. Like this: Like Loading...
20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture 20 Tips To Promote A Self-Directed Classroom Culture It’s an age-old saying, “Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.” What separates good teachers from the excellent ones? So how do you cultivate a culture of “I can…” in your classroom? 1. The more I study education and psychology, the more convinced I become that failure is one of the most important tools for learning. Failure can be the doorway to great accidental inventions. 2. Curiosity is what propels a young child to venture away from the safety of his/her mother to explore the environment. 3. Students who have a platform and a voice feel more empowered than those that don’t. Teaching students how to disagree and debate respectfully helps them to develop their own internal voice – something that is crucial when there aren’t hordes of people patting you on the back later in life. 4. Terry Heick writes about the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Physics We Are Aliens! related physics activities for you class room, devised by Anu Ojha. Includes activities and worksheets. Supporting videos demonstrate the activities. Activities are available to download as discrete packages, or you can download all the chemistry resources as a single package. Classroom Activities: Boiling Water in a Syringe The “boiling water in a syringe without heating it” experiment and why oceans can’t exist on Mars now – but once upon a time, they did! Download (.doc) Comet Recipe Create a comet in the classroom with water, dry ice, worcester sauce and sand! Planetary Pressure Pressure and what it’s really like on Earth, Venus and Mars! TVs, Magnets and Mars Using TVs and magnets to explain why Mars is the schizophrenic world of the Solar System! Earth and Mars Earth and Mars….as different as they are alike. Download (.ppt) Download all physics resources (.zip) Videos for Teachers: Pressure: Magnets and Mars Mars and Comets
Nuclear fusion - Pass My Exams: Easy exam revision notes for GSCE Physics Nuclear fusion is the process in which the nuclei of light elements combine, or fuse together, to give heavier nuclei. An example of a fusion reaction is that of two deuterium nuclei fusing together to give a helium nucleus. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen. The reaction is as follows: Fusion reactions are accompanied by a much greater mass to energy conversion than in fission reactions. Nuclear fusion requires extremely high temperatures. The animation below shows the mechanism of nuclear fusion. Both nuclei contain 1 proton and 1 neutron. At very high temperatures (millions of degrees Celsius) the kinetic energies of the nuclei overcome their forces of repulsion and collide.
Five For Friday - Test Prep and Angry Birds You know what I love even better than Friday? Friday before a long weekend ... ahhhhhhhhh ... much needed!!! It's been a long week ... but a fun week ... so I guess all is good. Looking forward to some quality time with the family this weekend (and hoping for some sun). Friday also means it's time for Five for Friday - I LOVE this linky - I seriously look forward to it all week, planning what pics I'm going to include. Grade 6 testing is just 7 days away for us, so we've been doing a lot of test prep in the classroom. The next day we started to make our test prep bookmarks. Today we used our CAFE/CRAFT board to break down our answers in language. Part of the reason why we had so much fun at school this week was our Angry Bird project. Lastly, the construction at my school is at full steam (if full steam means REALLY LOUD!) So, there's my week in review.
Schools - Teachers - Bang goes the theory series 3 & 4: Lesson Plan 4 - The size and scale of the Solar System