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There are 13 sites to add technology to your curriculum. These sites are given by Adam Bellow, the Founder of EduClipper and Steve Dembo, Online Community Manager for Discovery Education!

This lesson combines a hands-on activity (making a model of a Viking ship), internet skills (web searches), and cooperative learning/discussions to study the ancient Vikings. The boat building activity will also draw students in with the good-natured competition of sailing their models and rating how they did. Journal entries and guided discussions and research add to the involvement of the students with the subject.

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.

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.

Use this as a nonfiction text for my fifth graders about this time of year, sickness, sickness, sickness!

Researchers from the University of California, Davis and Yale University have found that addressing dyslexia as soon as possible is crucial to closing the achievement gap between dyslexic and typical readers. According to the report published in this month's The Journal of Pediatrics, "Achievement Gap in Reading Is Present as Early as First Grade and Persists Through Adolescence," dyslexia affects 17%-21% of school-age population.

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.

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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.

Dig into Mining is an interactive program for grades 6-8 that spotlights the value and uses of transition metals including copper, gold and molybdenum and fosters a deeper understanding of the mining industry by equipping educators, students and families with dynamic resources including a virtual field trip, interactive digital learning tools and career exploration activities.

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Algebra Teaching Tips

Interesting tips for teaching Algebra

Algebra Teaching Tips