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second grade graphs, place value, time, add & subtract, multiplication, number sense-greater than, odd or even hundreds charts, ruler, pattern, money, place value, learning fractions, temperature, calendar worksheets social studies- continents, compass rose, science- butterfly life cycle, frog life cycle, typing games, worksheet generator, word search maker, 

Free Cycling PPT Template is a fitness theme under Free Lifestyle PPT Theme to share insights regarding recreation, transport, and much more using PowerPoint 2016 (stable release) and PPT 2013. Share tips on travelling by bicycle and share the pros & cons of biking.

interactive website on the rock cycle

Students create their sandstone as they investigate the processes of the rock cycle.

Maturity PowerPoint Template is a free PowerPoint template with a simple maturity diagram or product life cycle chart in the slide design or business life cycle diagram. This free PowerPoint template has a maturity chart design useful for product development PowerPoint presentations. The slide design and chart has different colors for the maturity phase. For example, you can see the product introduction in green, then growth, maturity and decline.

Interactive to learn about the rock cycle: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks

flashcards, nasa scheduling, math formulas, solar system, life cycle, 3D brain, states, wikipedia searcher, original source docs like US Constitution

art and culture of Africa

games and interactives regarding food chains, health, plants, life cycles variation, microorganisms, and moving and growing frmo the BBC

interactive science games on humans, plants, food chains, life cycles, habitats, physical processes

Resources on food chains, plants, Life-cycles, habitats, micro-organisms, teeth, human body, gases, liquids, and solids, material properties, changing state, rocks and soils, magnets, day and night, light and seeing, scientific method. Primarily for K6

Blueback is a beautiful metaphor for life and particularly of the life we live in schools. When looked at close up, with an eye on the details, the experience of school is one of passing and recurring cycles. When looked at from a distance, with an eye on the whole, there are elements of constancy, the throughlines which bring meaning to our experience and which have as their consequence the residuals of education. 

Despite this being a 'thinking' conference, despite us all being advocates for structured and scaffolded models of thinking, not one group had applied any thinking routines, utilised a collaborative planning protocol or talked about applying an inquiry model or design thinking cycle. It wasn't that we didn't know about them. It wasn't that we don't know how to use them. It wasn't that we don't value them. We had all the knowledge we could desire on the how to and the why of a broad set of thinking tools and anyone of these would have enhanced the process, but we did not use any of them. Why was this the case and what does this reveal about our teaching of these methods to our students?

Recently I have been diving into the world of Assessment, seeking to better understand how we might design effective processes around this essential phase of the learning cycle. In doing so I have found a wealth of resources and quality reads that offer insights and strategies to be applied into our classrooms. Here then is a sampling of what I have been reading. 

If we believe that all learning is a consequence of thinking, then we should consider what types of thinking our learners are likely to benefit from at each phase of their inquiry. This is where the Understanding Map, developed by Ritchhart, Church & Morrison offers useful guidance. By contemplating the demands of each phase of our chosen inquiry model, we can plan for how we might scaffold thinking moves which will enhance our learners' learning.

Video on recycling for elementary students

Indira Gandhi National Open University, one of the Mega-University in the World, announces ADMISSIONS to its Distance Education Academic Programmes for the Academic Cycle commencing from July 2013.