"Print out your own checkbook register, or check register. For use with our checks introduction lesson, or for your own class lesson that uses checkbooks or checking registry. Sample checkbook for lessons. Includes the option of a basic teaching registry, or standard bank checking registry.
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APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.
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Adult Education Alternative Education Early Childhood Elementary and Secondary Financial Aid Fun Stuff Organization and Associations Post Secondary Special Needs Student Resources Study Abroad Resources
Government Resources
Department of Education - This award-winning site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance our mission as a Department-to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans.
Education News Parents Can Use - To help parents understand the No Child Left Behind Act and all the important changes it will bring, the U.S. Department of Education launched a new monthly television series entitled Education News Parents Can Use. What is different about Education News is its focus on information and resources of value to parents and families. The program features brief segments, including one-on-one interviews, "how-to" demonstrations, more video and graphics, and brief conversations with parents, educators, community, business and religious leaders, and education experts.
Estuaries.gov - The primary function of this Web site is to educate the public on the importance of estuaries and the need to protect them.
FCIC's Educator Page - Here are four activities to help you teach young citizens how to be proactive consumers and learn about the government.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) - Part of the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, this is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
NOAA Education Website - This site has been designed to help students, teachers, librarians and the general public access the many educational activities, publications, and booklets that have been produced.
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) - OESE promotes academic excellence, enhances educational opportunities a
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Rubrics may be used as a teaching tool and as an authentic assessment tool. Students are more likely to perform well if they know in advance what constitutes quality. When students receive rubrics beforehand, they understand how they will be evaluated which will lead them to assess their works-in-progress and guide revision
As an assessment tool, they provide students with informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
The advantages to the teacher are that rubrics help clarify assignment expectations, reduce repetitive questions from students, improve consistency in grading, decrease the time spent writing comments on student papers, and improve communication with tutors and parents.
Tips for using in the classroom:
* Give copies to the students at the beginning of the assignment. Discuss the expectations.
* Have students assess their own progress by referring to the rubric. Allow students to revise their work.
* Use the rubrics for peer-assessment.
* Share the rubrics with parents.
* Use the rubrics for grading.
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"i-SAFE's education component provides students with dynamic, interactive, up-to-date e-Safety curriculum in the classroom, online and in the community. These prevention-oriented lessons employ peer-to-peer communication and cooperative learning activities to help students retain this valuable information. The Outreach component facilitates the extension of students' newly acquired e-Safety knowledge beyond the classrooms and introduces the entire community about the need to be safe online. Youth empowerment is the link. Students are encouraged to become student i-MENTORs who communicate the e-Safety message via peer-to-peer contact and exciting community-wide activities, events and rallies.
Certification is not required to teach the lessons. However, an i-SAFE Professional Development Program (PDP) - face-to-face or online through the i-LEARN video modules - is recommended to update educators on the specific topics covered in the curriculum. Attending a PDP or completing i-LEARN online is required for an educator to train others as an i-SAFE Certified Trainer."
"information about Women in the West. Under Texts you will find examples of primary texts, such as women's diaries and literary works, or secondary texts, such as critical essays or historical studies. Under Resources, you will find biographies of Western women as well as other resources, such as bibliographies and teaching and study materials. Under Links to Other Sites, you will find a collection of links to sites dealing with various issues in women's history, such as women's art and health. Finally, under Images, you will find both general collections which include some images of Western women's history and direct links to pictures available online."
"Here's a handy tutorial for using Microsoft's free Photo Story 3 to create "Book Trailers" - and other projects using photos to tell a story, with.
Photos are a great tool for teaching in the classroom, but with moving pictures, narration and music, they are even better!
Photo Story 3 is a free download from Microsoft that lets you easily create narrated "mini-movies" using photographs. It also has a built in music generator that allows you to put your story to music, copyright free! Think of Ken Burns's many wonderful documentaries. This program will allow anyone with a computer running Windows XP to do something similar.
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The program gives students the ability to make their own 'Book Trailers' to help other students get interested in books they have read. Students can scan, draw or take pictures related to the book, import the pictures into Photo Story 3, arrange the pictures, add narration to the pictures, and choose the type of music used when the trailer plays. Photo Story 3 then generates a stand-alone movie based on all of the above.
One of the ways I have used Photo Story 3 is with my "Integrating Technology into the Classroom" course at Dakota State University is by inviting a local fifth-grade class to visit our lab, then helping students build their own book trailer. Over the course of the hour, we help students scan or take digital pictures, import their pictures to Photo Story 3, add narration, motion and music. They take their movies back to show on morning announcements, to their friends, and to their parents.
For example, one student, Brian, made a Photo Story of Sammy the Seal. It shows enough information to get other students interested in the book, but not so much that the ending is given away. Another example is "Zack's Alligator goes to School", a story of the (mis)adventures of a pet alligator named Bridgett.
Making a Book Trailer is fairly simple. Just follow these steps:
Quick Start Guide"
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* Outreach Materials
* Earth Day Ideas
Clean School Bus USA LogoIdeas for Clean School Bus Earth Day Activities
* Recognition Event, with media
* Open House, with media
* Teach a Lesson at a Local School
* Celebrate "First" Retrofit
* Participate in Local Earth Day event
* Get a Local Proclamation about Clean School Buses
* Reduce Idling of School Buses for Earth Day
* Team Up with Asthma Advocates for Joint Asthma Awareness Day/Earth Day Event"
"The goal of this event is to encourage teachers from all subject areas to teach students basic concepts about copyright during Copyright Awareness Week. We hope that through this understanding, students will be more appreciative of the efforts of creative people and the protections the law affords them. Many people are avid users of copyrighted materials such as music, film, books, magazines, art and photographs, but they have little or no understanding about how these works are protected or why our forefathers felt copyright protections should be included in our constitution. We hope that you will enjoy learning about this important subject and that you will encourage other students, teachers and parents to engage in the study of copyright during Copyright Awareness Week.
We are always looking for new ideas to share with other teachers and students. Please email us and let us know what your class studied during Copyright Awareness Week. You may contact us with this information or any questions you might have regarding Copyright Awareness Week at Contact the CSUSA Office. We hope your study leads you to a greater understanding and appreciation for creators and their creations. "