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Lessons & Instructional Materials - Earthquake Introduction. The flipchart introduces earthquakes by asking students to do a 3 minute quick write about their background knowledge. Then, the pages turn into an introduction to vocabulary words related to earthquakes. Students watch a seismograph at work to show student the way the machine works.

Given students' preconceptions of history as fixed information, cultivating students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking is foundational to advancing their disciplinary understanding. This study examines the ways in which preservice history teachers construct tasks that demand students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking and attend to such thinking in their field placements while being taught to do so in their methods courses. Analysis of methods course assignments, student teaching observations, and assessments of candidates' disciplinary knowledge led to the construction of three cases of novice teachers' efforts to teach these ways of thinking to their students. The one novice who attended to her students' interpretive and evidentiary thinking translated her disciplinary knowledge into lessons that involved analysis of text in developing interpretations and gave general prompts to provide evidence in support of students' conclusions. This study highlights the role of preservice teachers' disciplinary understanding and pedagogical content knowledge in developing students' interpretive and evidentiary thinking in history classrooms.

Very detailed posts about resources, lesson ideas, classroom organisation, stress management and more.

PCK which consider student misconceptions for the science concept of heat and insulation.

This is a great resource, thank you for sharing! I used this site a lot for science lesson plans.

A summary of work done by a World Bank supported group. Attempts to summarise what is known about the use of ICT in education -- original shared by Lisa Stewart

what do we know about successful pedagogical strategies?

This flipchart consists of definitions for the art techniques

SLIC - holistic lesson to increase motivation and engagement, helping to teach multiple levels of learners and different learning styles, fostering collaboration and helping students focus on specific tasks

Interactive game where students aged 8-14 learn about maps and globes. I am going to incorporate Lesson 1 into my yr2 unit plan.

Fractions

Ms Cassidy's blog documents the interesting and valuable learning achievements of her students. Her blog offers a great variety of lesson ideas, including those which involve ICTs such as twitter to communicate with other learners from around the world and enhance the learning experience of all.

This blog site is up to date and relevant, providing an inside look at the class practice with current photos and videos.

I found this blog really interesting as it shows the children are engaged in using ICT in the classroom with their own blogs and videos of their work. It also shows the use of not using ICT with lots of hands on experiences. I think it shows the importance of using both in the classroom depending on what your learning. I will definitely keep a close eye on this blog.

This blog includes some great ideas, especially the most recent post that includes how to avoid resorting to PowerPoint presentations. Simon shares some great resources/ apps that can be used instead of PowerPoint and in addition to his lessons. The use of modern ICT is noted.

Asked in the context of mathematics, bu the question (and many of the answers) apply to all teaching.

Great resources

Melinda Crean is a Perth primary school educator who shares ideas and resources in her blog: Top Notch Teaching, on how to better classroom practice. She shares different ideas and resources on topics such as classroom management, lesson ideas, reflective teaching, Specific Learning Disability (SLD) and much more.

Primary school teacher and dyslexia specialist, reflects and supports through her own blog for other teachers. She has some great resources and tips to help us out.

Firstly, a Unit Plan what's this? In education this basically encompasses weekly lesson plans (what is taught on a day to day basis) into an overarching idea say of Mapping in the Maths curriculum. A unit plan can run for a few weeks or can be extended over many weeks when teaching a very detailed subject area.

Lesson ideas and teaching strategies. Classroom management. Reflective practice.