TIE Online Class: Web Lit for Educators

Today's topic again focuses on another valuable teacher freebie, and free is in my price range.How about you? Today's post gives each of us a rare professional development opportunity - learning from other teachers who teach the same curriculum as you.Think about it.Wouldn't the idea of having just a first grade teacher conference be phenomenal?How about a drama teacher conference?Or one for middle school English teachers?What sort of conversations would you have?What resources would you share?

I love this blog for ideas in K-5 Math instruction as well as the network of other teachers I have been able to learn from that are also interested in this blog.

Another excellent example of how learning for understanding impacts positive learning for children in mathematics!

The National Family Partnership organized the first Nationwide Red Ribbon Campaign. NFP provides drug awareness by sponsoring the annual National Red Ribbon Celebration. Nancy Reagan was the honorary Chairman of NFP. Since its beginning in 1985, the Red Ribbon has touched the lives of millions of people around the world.

The students will design a layout to assemble type, graphics, and images to create print media that communicates information. Project is either saved in .pdf format, on-line, or a hard copy is provided. Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.

The students will employ higher-order thinking skills, design, critical thinking, collaboration, and feedback through the creation of on-line gaming platforms with the website sploder (www.sploder.com). Students will design a multi-leveled game of their own.

Career Aware Download individual leaflets (one per each of 16 career clusters) in Adobe .pdf format* from South Dakota Career Aware (packet of career awareness classroom activities designed for students in grades three through five).

KidsHealth has doctor-approved articles, animations, games, and resources to help kids learn more about their bodies and stay healthy.

Description: The students will utilize Lego Mindstorm to move a cube from one place to another by constructing a driving base, programing the driving base on a computer through the Lego EV3 Mindstorm software, downloading the program to the onboard computer on the driving base, testing the program to see of the cube is relocated to the proper location, and then modifying the programing to see if they can move size cube to other various locations.

Oh another good way to start a class...start with a quote....talk about it.....journal/blog about it!

180 quotes of the day

activities for the first day of school

templates for teachers

This is a blog I added to my RSS feed.