Group items tagged

Discover, Share, and Present presentations and infographics with the world's largest professional content sharing community.

ProCon.org can help with classroom debates, student research papers, persuasive essays and more.

Students will Learn and understand the term habitat. Discover that forests, deserts, wetlands, and grasslands are unique and separate habitats. Identify animals that live in four different environments. Animals Around Us video Crayons White construction paper, 1 sheet per student Magazines, nature calendars and other print resources with photographs of desert, forest, wetlands, and prairie environments 1.

Teach the different habitats animals live in and how they differ.

Students use checkbooks and real bookkeeping skills to keep track of their finances just like they would if they were older.

There's no need to adopt all facets of a token economy such as Beth Moore's all at once. The fifth grade teacher recommends starting small with classroom jobs. Next, give students "salaries" for their work in the form of coins or classroom currency. The checkbook is another strong step.

Can't wait to try this with the kids.

This site gives tips on how to connect classroom read alouds to standards.

Here's a list of ideas for making every read-aloud count, while assuring your principal that you are focused on meeting standards.

This is one in a series of articles that Cathy Puett Miller writes giving practical suggestion on how to get read alouds to cover the "standards"

It's report card time and you face the prospect of writing constructive, insightful, and original comments on a couple dozen report cards or more. A daunting task? Not with Ed World's help! Included: 100 positive report card comments for you to use and adapt.

As teachers, we know the value of hands-on exploration with math manipulatives in school. We can extend the sense of discovery and empowerment into our students homes by helping them assemble math toolboxes to be enjoyed by the whole family.

Have a Student Secretary for Parent-Teacher Conferences* Select a volunteer from one of your classes to act as your secretary during parent-teacher conferences. Thank the student for volunteering. Familiarize the student with both the benefits and the secretary's role as outlined below. Benefits: The student secretary accumulates valuable volunteer hours.

Teacher tools and templates. This is a great place to find templates quickly. They have templates for calenders, assessment tool, parent teacher communication and much , much more.

This shows a huge list of templates for all grades.

Need a template? Check out this amazing link to find a template that just right for your project at hand.

Looking for ways to keep kids engaged in math, science and reading? Our Learning Machine archives provide links to fun online games that help you teach and reinforce important academic skills. Search the lists below for games you might use with your whole class. The activities are great for "reward time," too!

I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies. Often times the conversation reminds me that what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else. Last week I had that very experience as I taught a couple of teachers some search techniques that they are going to pass along to their students.

The experts expound the use and the way of using the approaches and strategies to be adopted for solving the problems. The student can easily find solution to a problem, if he/she gets a clarity in the idea or purpose of the assignment query.

in our Gallery of Coloring Pages, we have a large selection of simple coloring pages. This collection is organized according to famous themes such as princesses, castles, knights, science fiction, and comic books. So, you can download these coloring pages to color them for entertainment when you are bored or have too much free time. In fact, these coloring sheets are very useful when camping or traveling. Therefore, you can just take them with you wherever you go.