It's never too early to teach kids about money management. This site has a variety of interactive games for kids/teens plus info for parents and teachers of 6-8th graders.
This is a great website that shows where reservations are located. It also talks about the different tribes that live in each area. I think this website is wonderful because it shows a map of Minnesota, which makes learning much easier and fun!
Great site Barb. What a quick way to access project ideas for the current time period you are teaching. For example, a Halloween clean up project idea. Just a click or two away and you have a fun and educational project. Nice work.
It's humbling to learn about our world's hunger problem. Countless individuals die from starvation every day throughout the world, yet our country enjoys overabundance at every level. How can we create a balance?
Wow, is this site full of cultural ideas. Thats great that they have the lessons, ideas and activities all laid out and categorized. How fun and easy to use this site.
The survey results can be broken down into three overarching themes: parent engagement along with synchronous and asynchronous strategies. The responses uncovered the following best practices to address the needs of students with learning differences.
“Parents seem to be more invested as they take part in their child’s programming,”
Parents can see the skills their children are working on and can carry them over more effectively.”
increasing engagement during live, virtual, synchronous meetings.
IEP goals and objectives may not be the student’s preferred virtual learning activity.
Virtual book clubs:
Start virtual meetings with a fun, engaging activity:
Visuals, routines, schedules:
I create individualized weekly schedules for my students,
ncluded in these schedules are their assignments and expectations with links to documents, websites, or other materials in a centrally located document. These schedules assist the students and caregivers with pacing, planning, organization, and task completion, among other functional skills.”
As the school year begins, it’s always fun to learn more about your students in a way that celebrates individuality and promotes creativity! Using this beginning of the year digital all about me activity is as a creative way for my students to set goals, express their favorites, and have something to look back on for their school year in our class.
This is incredibly true, almost every lesson we will teach have some aspect of a visual. How will we accomplish our lessons without visuals?
In a school environment, visual impairments can cause difficulties when it comes to traditional reading and writing activities, reading at a distance, distinguishing colors, recognizing shapes and participating in physical education games which require acute vision, such as softball and kickball.
Prior to research, when I heard "vision impairment" I would typically think of someone who is blind. Throughout researching this disability I have realized that it is so much more. Something as simple as needing glasses for being near sided or far sided is consider a vision impairment.
Below are some very basics tips to help accommodate your visually impaired students.
Children and adults with low vision are not considered legally blind, they simply have reduced vision at or lower than 20/70. Students who are blind have vision that is at or lower than 20/200. Nonetheless, only 15% of students with visual impairments are considered to be completely blind, with no light or form perception ability
Children with visual impairments often start off learning to read and write with the assistance of low-tech solutions, such as high-intensity lamps and book-stands. Sometimes screen magnification and computer typing and reading programs are used. In other cases, low vision students will learn to read using the Braille system over text, or a combination of the two.
However, as students progress through early grade levels and reading and writing activities become more demanding, periodic literacy skills assessment is required to ensure additional resources and adaptive strategy instruction are provided to meet their needs.
It's good to continue assessing visually impaired students in case they need further assistance.
For those students with visual impairments who do not master Braille, making use of technology to facilitate reading is fundamental. In fact, most talented Braille readers prefer to use computers or tablets when reading for fun anyway. And students who learn to use a computer not only find homework easier to complete, but often become faster readers.
It is simply more efficient for low vision students to use a computer and word-processor over reading paper books and handwriting. This is particularly relevant at a high-school level, when reading and writing assignments become lengthier and more challenging.