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"This learning theory is based on the structure and function of the brain. As long as the brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its normal processes, learning will occur."

Courtney, did you happen to scroll down the page and read on? There are very simple approaches to BBL that any teacher could begin using right away. I really like the idea of "relaxed alertness" and "active processing."

I love love love both the NYTimes educational supplementary materials and the fact that they exist. Recently I tweaked a Times lesson plan on writing your own obituary to help the students set goals. As we move toward the Core Standards, it's more important than ever for kids to read non-fiction and journalism.

This site provides specific tactics to help alleviate the attention-deficit woes of your most inattentive students. Typical suggestions include decreasing the length of your lessons and structuring some guided daydreaming time.

Students create an Amazing Race challenge for another class. Students are put into production groups to create a show segment for The Amazing Race.Each group represents the different United States regions, investigates the various types of geographical regions, creates a digital poster or poster board presentation to be posted on classroom wiki for study reference, include an "artifact" (e.g. geographic tools/ technologies, stories, songs, and pictures) to further describe their specific region. As a class, students will present their final product and regional artifacts to another class as an Amazing Race challenge.

2-sided help sheet for students (and teachers)

2-sided help sheet for students (and teachers)

2-sided help sheet for students (and teachers)

This document provideds simple, practical ways to implement brain based learning strategies in your classroom. It offers you something different for each letter of the alphabet.

Several types of concept maps (in INTERACTIVE pdf format) This means you can link to them, students can access them, complete them, save and turn in electronically. They can also be downloaded and printed if there's little to no access to classroom computers. Or do some collaborative/small group work. Have small groups of students complete a task, work together on completing and explain/defend their concept map to whole group. Non-linguistic representations are a high impact teaching strategy that work especially well with visual learners. Consider using these for organization, pre-writing, summaries, etc.

Apangea is an online math resource partially funded by the state of Indiana. It is primarily geared towards high school students taking the Algebra I ECA, but can be used for grades 3-12 with varying content. I use Apangea as part of my math lab.

Research suggests that small-group teaching is the most effective way of having new information learned. In addition, there is plenty of evidence suggesting that reading centers that focus on specific sub-skills are an excellent approach to teaching reading, comprehension, and fluency well. Therefore, I particularly benefit from this website, as it offers a wide variety of sub-skill targeted reading centers for kiddos in grades k through 5. Again, this is a WINNER of a site (with a lot(!) of resarch to back it up)!

Excellent Reading Resource that specifically addresses a wide variety of reasons WHY children struggle with reading and HOW to help them overcome that particular obstacle.

great worksheets and activities for students in Elementary grades. This website has both math and ELA activities as well as many holiday and seasonal activities.

Great for students as a center time activity- Kindergarten-2nd grade

Activities for teachers, students, whole group and individual.

This is a collection of resources for science demonstrations. I teach 8th grade science and my kids just want to do something fun everyday. They learn better when they can manipulate something or ground abstract knowledge in something that they see in real life. Starting with a demonstration almost every class is a great way to reel in the students!

Standards based links and our grade level "Skillbuilders" to help students practice, either at home or in the classroom, what they have been taught. Several large collections of links for PreK-12 teachers, students and parents.