***Note: Please read the post called “10 Lesson Helps” found under “Primary Lesson Listings” before reviewing any of my Sunbeam lesson plan ideas. “In addition to using a variety of methods from lesson to lesson, you should teach each lesson with variety. Children with their natural cu...
Education World editors took some time to surf the Internet in search of ideas around which teachers might build Pi Day celebrations. The resources below offer a library of great activities, lesson plans, and other resources to help you celebrate Pi Day in style! Lesson Plans and Other Activiti...
Friday the 13th would be a fitting time to plan an obstacle course with 13 activity stations. At each stop, children could be instructed to perform a task involving 13 repetitions of an activity, such as jumping jacks, pushups, situps, jump rope, twirling a hula hoop, dribbling a ball, ...
additional processing (by all members of the team), sufficient to come to an agreed-upon view. Then you have lots of alternate ideas, and re-processinggoing on. That, to me, is the power of social learning. In that process of negotiation...
exploration of diverse tools and methods. As a collective, Grade 8 exhibited exceptional self-management, effectively utilizing the design lab for their projects. With each passing lesson, the products are steadily evolving from conceptualization ...
flushed and vital you feel after coming home from a 30-minute traipse in sprinkling rain, your head full of ideas and your blood pumping to write. Better still–a hike in the hills, overwhelmed with the beauty of emerald grass and shifting sunlight, brilliant poppies and clouds traveling ...
Please let me know your ideas. I am a passionate teacher in Oregon, Wisconsin, USA but originally from Denmark, who has taught 4th, 5th, and 7th grade. Proud techy geek, and mass consumer of incredible books. Creator of theGlobal Read Aloud Project, Co-founder ofEdCamp MadWI, and believ...
try to ‘motivate’ students into public speaking, they might feel motivated but can lack the specific knowledge needed to translate that into action. However, through careful instruction and encouragement, studentscanlearn how to craft an argument, shape their ideas and develop them into solid ...
Whether you have 5-10 minutes before the next transition, your schedule changes, or you have a few minutes at the end of the day, it's always nice to have a back-up plan of activities that you can pull out at anytime. Even though a few minutes may not sound like much, if you...
Great ideas I saw on the internet Take a virtual tour of one of 12 museums around the world Take a dance lesson Borrow one of 500,000 books free from the New York Public Library Take a virtual trip to an aquarium or zoo Take a virtual tour of Buckingham Palace, the Galapagos Islands,...