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Found this through my RSS Feed, love the chart!

Trignometry Uses

For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme. This website has two goals. One is to help end world hunger and the other is to help educate people. People of all ages can answer questions and for each question that they get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the UNWFP (United Nations World Food Program). They can answer questions in a variety of subjects such as humanities, math, and science.

"When I first started teaching it was a goal of mine to integrate technology into the classroom as much as I could. I began my teaching career after being a graphic designer and working for a textbook publisher. That experience taught me how important technology is in the real world." This website has neat ideas on how to incorporate technology in early childhood classrooms.

Graphing Calculator Use

Keith Hughes explains how to flip your classroom. He gives a quick tutorial about how to do the video piece. He emphasizes three things: 1. Know your curriculum, 2. Know your audience. 3. When you know your curriculum and your audience, you can focus on how to engage kids so they understand your objective clearly. He suggests making a 10 minute video, and explains how incorporate the videos, font and lecture into the video. The students watch it at home and come to class prepared to discuss the concept. In this way, class time is not used to teach content, but to respond to the concepts the students viewed in the video at home.

This is the blog of a second grade teacher who provides insight on various common core standards and shares many resources related to the common core. She provides 2nd grade writing rubrics related to the common core standards.

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This weekly article on classroom management has revolutionized my teaching over the past three years. I can't recommend it highly enough!