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This lesson plan explores historical, political, social, and cultural aspects of the nation's capitol. The student is asked to tie-in their own congressional delegations, collect media files of specific sites in D.C., and make journal entries describing and detailing what they learn. It can part of an actual trip to Washington or web-adventure.

EducationWorld is pleased to present this professional development resource shared by Dr. Jane Bluestein, an expert in relationship-building, positive school climate and effective instruction. Like boundaries, choices are motivational tools that encourage young people's cooperation through empowerment. Choices build responsibility and commitment, communicate the teacher's respect for students' needs and preferences and can encourage students to perform a particular behavior.

Helpful templates, cut and paste, and ideas for classroom newsletters.

Music sites offer kids information about composers, conductors, and musical instruments, while providing them with opportunities to see, hear, play, and compose their own music. Included: Nearly three-dozen tuneful sites.

Practical site for elementary music research.

Music sites offer kids information about composers, conductors, and musical instruments, while providing them with opportunities to see, hear, play, and compose their own music.

math help portal. Has interactive instructions and resources for educators, students and parents.

Free computer courses and tutorials from Home and Learn. We currently have Micorsoft Word, Excel spreadsheets, Visual Basic .NET programming for beginners, Beginners PHP, Web Design, and Javascript lessons.

includes/content/subnav.asp NOINDEX "Reading Recovery is the best evidence yet of the direct link between good design and education excellence."- K.G. Wilson and B. Daviss GoalThe goal of Reading Recovery is to dramatically reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems. What Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders.

Good resource for atomic model and periodic table activities and simulations

Gifted ed is not a well-funded program in our district, so I found this for tips and insight...both educationally and as a referral source for parents/parenting.

iPod and iPad lessons and tips - Assistive Technology as well as General Classroom Tools

With a nod to the ever-brilliant-and-willing-to-share Kim Cofino, here is the rubric I've lately begun to use in my classroom for grading student blog posts.

This is an experiment in action and depending on how this tool works, it is very likely that it will come under some revision. If anyone ha

Ideas for music and theater creation. Geared for elementary and junior high.

Some cool resources for combining drama and music!

Some resources that incorporate music and drama.

"Snopes offers clickable links to the most common or most recent legends and a search engine for the rest. This site is fun to visit even if youve never been fooled by an e-mail scam -- and are sure you never will be. It can also be the start of a great Web literacy lesson for your students!"

Economics sites help students learn to be smarter consumers, savers, and investors. The sites provide interactive activities, lesson plans, games, curriculum materials, articles, and other resources for teaching and learning about economics. Included: Fourteen great sites for teaching personal finance and economic systems in the classroom.

We know that kids can remember songs and actions to songs that we haven't done for months, or even weeks! Why not use this to help them learn letters and sounds!? Our first step of action was to associate a letter/beginning sound with a picture.

Physical educators are taking advantage of technology by using heart rate monitors, pedometers, online assessment tools and exer-games such as Wii Fit & DDR. Not only are teachers using technology to enhance their classes, they are also using it to collect data, monitor progress and meet requirements.

Rather than stressing memorization and repetitive exercises, the Mathnasium Method of math instruction focuses on first helping children develop an intuitive idea of how numbers work and learning how to do math mentally. Included: Some examples of Mathnasium exercises.

Rather than stressing memorization and repetitive exercises, the Mathnasium Method of math instruction focuses on first helping children develop an intuitive idea of how numbers work and learning how to do math mentally. Included: Some examples of Mathnasium exercises. I feel this is an excellent validation for making the changes necessary in Math instruction. Interesting read...

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I first heard about this at the Title I conference this year in Maimi and have become interested in knowing more and why. - - "the boy crisis" -- the decline over the past decade or so in academic achievement and college attendance among U.S. males -- is one of the most serious issues facing U.S. society today.

This site provided by the University of Nebraska at Omaha and several partner organizations promotes learning about the brain and nervous system for children.