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I spend lots of time trialling new web 2.0 tools with my students, for all different learning purposes. My grade and I often have a conversation that goes a little something like this: Me: I have placed the link to -- on our blog for you to open and use.

It can be heartbreaking if your child doesn't get invited to a classmate's birthday party, isn't chosen for the lead role in the play, or sits alone at recess. Though it's not easy being left out, how you help them deal with it can make all the difference in the world.

Great tool for creating rubrics for all different types of projects!

List of assessment and rubric information We always need rubrics and assessments for creating criteria for success! This is helpful!

Students will Learn why numbers are an important part of everyday life. Provide examples of daily uses of numbers. Problem-Solving: Math, Episode 1 video Writing paper Pencils and erasers Computer with Internet access (optional) Talk about the different ways we use numbers in our everyday lives. What are some uses of numbers?

A different type of puzzle for each day of the week. These puzzles will help with critical thinking skills, as well as develop and reinforce math and language arts skills.

The narrowing of some curriculums and the rigid school assessment formulas under the federal No Child Left Behind Act drew comments from researchers and educators at forums on different sides of the U.S.

Reading textbooks is very different from reading your favorite mystery novel. Naturally, the way you read a textbook will vary depending on how well you know the material already, and the Textbook Surveys you have performed should have started to show you how you can handle each of your books.

Here are many different types of rubrics available for teacher use.

A teacher helper for assessments & rubrics

A prethra of rubrics.

Teachers often come from vastly different social and economic classes than their students, which can lead to culture clashes in the classroom. A book by Dr. Ruby K. Payne helps educators understand low-income students, and discusses ways to improve their learning. Included: Tips for making lessons relevant to students from all social classes.

"Sheppard offers everything from early math to pre-algebra. The lessons include interactive activities to practice concepts. Students can shoot fruit, pop balloons, and even play math man (the math version of pac man!). Fractions, place value, money, and basic operations are some of the areas that are covered.

Sheppardsoftware has a bunch of fun online games for students. I was looking for math games and found this site but they do have games for all grades for many different subjects.

Brief Description Students analyze photographs of high plains sod homes and read accompanying narratives. They then choose one photograph and, using the copy and paste features and simple drawing tools available in Microsoft Word, students identify characteristics, points, differences, and questions they find in that photograph. -Stephanie Jones

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With gun violence always being a hot topic, this is a great article showing how students with music can make a difference.