Search lessons by keyword Jeopardy [SMART Notebook lesson] A jeopardy game template to be used for a chapter review, or end of year testing review. It takes a while to g... Subject: Special Education, Mathematics, Other, Social Studies, English Language Arts, Science, Health and Physical Education, Art and Design, Citizenship, Modern Foreign Languages, Geography, History, Cross-curricular, ICT, English as a Second Language, Music Grade: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Post-Secondary Submitted by: Harvey Search terms: Jeopardy, Games Download 0.96 MB Open in SMART Notebook Express
Activities for the 1st Day of School The first day of school can be a wonderful opportunity to hook students on everything that makes your classroom a special place. Make the first day a fun and exciting showcase of great academic and social activities. Have students collaborate and share. Give students the opportunity to think, as well as share what makes them special as individuals. Try these 10 activities with your students to show them what’s in store for the rest of the year! What NOT to Do Many teachers use some of their time on the first day of school to list classroom rules or have students create the classroom rules. 6 Word Memoirs Students love to share stories from their own lives. Ultimate Rock, Paper, Scissors Teachers often have several activities included on the first day for students to get to know each other. STEM Challenges Collaborative, hands-on activities can help you learn a lot about your students on the first day. Scavenger Hunt using QR Codes Students love a good scavenger hunt. By @RACzyz
ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. Therefore, the charity had been using its reserves to keep the project online and was unable to fund any dedicated staff to maintain Arkive, let alone future-proof it, for over half a decade. Despite appeals for support, just 85 of our 5.6 million users in 2018 made a donation.
Transition to Standards | Lexile by Grade Updated Sept. 2012 More ‘Lexile by Grade’ Info How Lexile fits into ‘Text Complexity’ The right hand column has been updated to reflect CCSS appropriate Lexile levels for each grade level. CCSS Lexiles should be used for instructional purposes, not placement decisions. According to MetaMetrix, “The updates refer to the three-part model defined in Appendix A of the the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, which combines the quantitative and qualitative measures of text complexity with reader and task considerations.”
Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics Save Time This Year With 10 Free Tech Tools for High School Teachers Time is at a premium for high school teachers. "I think that a lot of people forget that in middle school and high school we have so many more students than the elementary school teachers have," says Stephanie Richardson, an English teacher at North Harrison High School in Ramsey, Indiana. While an elementary school teacher may teach 25 to 30 students, she says, she is expected to give each of her 150 to 175 students the same amount of attention. "If you think about it, even if you are grading just a regular paper, it takes five minutes for a paper," she says. One thing Richardson can't live without is a notebook she calls her "sanity saver." High school teachers strapped for time can also try using free tech tools that are designed to make their lives easier. [Read these four questions high school teachers should ask when vetting new tech tools.] Organization and Productivity Teaching and Presentation Assessment Tools • Kahoot! And time management gets easier, she says.
Podcasts and Downloads - Science in Action Memory Improvement Techniques - Improve Your Memory with MindToo © VeerPRZEMYSLAW PRZYBYLSKI Use these techniques to improve your memory. The tools in this section help you to improve your memory. They help you both to remember facts accurately and to remember the structure of information. The tools are split into two sections. Firstly you'll learn the memory techniques themselves. As with other mind tools, the more practice you give yourself with these techniques, the more effectively you will use them. Mnemonics 'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. The idea behind using mnemonics is to encode difficult-to-remember information in a way that is much easier to remember. Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. Unfortunately, a lot of the information we have to remember in modern life is presented differently – as words printed on a page. Using Your Whole Mind to Remember Use positive, pleasant images.
creativeStir: Growth Mindset... for schools? A lot of growth mindset discussions center on the traits students and adults can develop. Especially at the start of a school year. Growth mindset vs fixed mindset. Lots of debate going on. If we're asking individuals to develop a growth mindset, what about a 'growth mindset' for a school? Is weaving students into some existing and traditional school structures prohibiting growth? Here are a few ideas on how school and systems within can develop and practice a 'growth mindset.' Create a common learning language and focal points Does your school have a common set of learning values for each class? Inquiry Research Collaboration Reflection Presentation Inquiry and project based learning... hands on, collaborative, interactive, project oriented. Analyze the class / master schedule... and make changes Analyze start time, breaks, class length, and flow from a student and adult perspective. How does your schools schedule impact family life? Are deadlines on homework completion rigid or flexible?
UDL Examples and Resources Disclaimer: The examples and resources highlighted on these pages have been gathered for educational purposes. CAST does not necessarily endorse the products listed, nor does their inclusion here mean that these products are complete expressions of the UDL principles and guidelines. They may illustrate certain principles and not others. Below, you will find teacher-friendly examples and resources that illustrate each of the UDL checkpoints. Exploring these examples and resources not only helps to clarify what is meant by each of the checkpoints but also gives teachers ideas of ways to implement UDL in their classrooms. These lists are meant to be a sampling of the different examples and resources that are available. We're on Diigo! Want to search our examples and resources? Never used Diigo before? Principle I. Principle II. Principle III.