World Famous from The Teacher's Corner You must have an OLD browser. The old crossword maker doesn't allow all of the new features like cool fonts, adding images, shadows, special colors, and much more coming in the furture like saving, and being playable online. You can upgrade your browser to IE 9+ or better yet, get the Google Chrome browser and enjoy all of those great features. Not convinced? Daily Activities or Choice Board Template for Google Slides This new template for Google Slides for education is for you to use for daily activities or to create a choice board for your students. Choice boards have been a life saver for me, I am not an educator myself, and sometimes I run out of ideas or activities for my daughter to work on during this very particular time where we are confined home. And I must give a HUGE shout out to Karly Moura because, among a million things, she created the eLearning 4 everyone site, filled with goodies for educators and parents! Thank you so much Karly! Besides the slides for 6 activities or choices I’ve added a section where students can write about what they learned, or maybe you want them to write about something else, your choice.
Gimkit: Live Quiz Learning Game What is Gimkit? Gimkit is a quiz app that has many unique features. Like Quizizz, students work independently on their own screens, but like Kahoot, they are racing against time or competing for “money.” Students can earn money by answering questions. Mysite Public speaking and leadership... Did you know that Mathematics can be found hidden in both of these? Find out how in Thomas Moore's keynote titled 'Hidden Figures' which he gave at the District 73 Toastmasters Conference in May, 2019. This demonstration of long division always creates that "ahhh" moment.
Barbie Zip Line Inspiration from Matt, John, and Jedidiah helped me shape my Barbie Zip Line task today. Whenever I prepare new tasks for my students, I have been trying to keep mathematical modeling, student ownership/creativity, performance tasks, and openness in the back of my mind. That's a lot, right? Plus, there's a hundred other little things, but let's focus on the list above. As I reflect on today, I'll share how I would improve this for next time. Supplies (in order of attachment):
30 activities inspired by game shows Game shows and TV quizzes are a great source of inspiration for classroom activities. Believe it or not, I keep a notepad on the coffee table so I can jot down any teaching ideas I get from watching TV! It’s always good to have a range of different games up your sleeve to mix things up a bit. Here are some activities that appear in shows on the telly. Barbie Zipline for Pythagorean Theorem Math and Science classes could have been sponsored by Mattel this year with all the Barbie involved! You can read about our super fun Barbie Bungee adventures here or over at my awesome partner science teacher's blog where we dropped Barbie from the top of the football stadium bleachers. After doing Barbie Bungee with our students this year for scatter plots, we leaked the plans that we would also be doing Barbie Zipline. Students had really been looking forward to this and as soon as they saw the unit divider for their notebooks was Pythagorean Theorem, they erupted with excitement and questions! The lesson started with this video to get them thinking about the criteria of what makes a zipline fun but safe. Most line, height, and speed!
Fun ESL Classroom Games The games can be used to introduce new vocabulary, reinforce a language point, practice words or language structures, teach or practice grammar and improve core skills. You can also use these games to warm up the class when the lesson begins, during the lesson to re-energize the class or at the end of class to finish on a positive note and round off the lesson. Using games and fun activities in class is an important part of teaching ESL. Playing games is a fun way to help students make connections between words and grammar. These connections quicken the process of building language skills.
Dot Card Games – Young Mathematicians Dot cards are a deck of fun cards with different numbers of dots organized in many ways. Dot cards help children practice important early math skills: reciting number words in the correct order, counting with one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, subitizing, and recognizing written numerals. There are lots of ways to play with dot cards! Have children place tokens on top of card dots and count them one-by-onePut out 6-10 dot cards and ask children to find two cards that have the same number of dots on them (Match the Dots)Hold up a dot card for just a few seconds, hide it, and ask children to say how many dots were on that card (Quick Images) All of our dot card games help children practice important number concepts.
Play Wheel of Fortune Online - Free Brain Game Ready to play Wheel of Fortune online for free? This replica of the TV game show trains memory, concentration, and analytical ability. To begin, click the Small, Medium, or Large link under the picture at left. This opens the game in a pop-up window. If you like this game, you might also enjoy the other free word games on this site, such as Bookworm, Cryptogram Puzzles, and Spiderman Web of Words. <i><span><br />The games on this site require Javascript. Fraction Talks My original blog post on Fraction Talks can be found here. Fraction Talks are a built around classroom talk and student action. These two principles guide the teacher’s questions, disposition, and facilitation of the activity. They can be become a daily routine, or used for entire lessons. One common structure is much like a number talk.