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What an appropriate time to  celebrate the NSTA Conference with a tribute to an awesome collection of  STEM resources! For those not familiar with STEM education, imagine the power in combining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math into a program that brings cross curricular understanding with real world application. Those familiar with ...

I've been trying to plan a unit on fractions today and I scoured the internet looking for songs or chants to help teach my students how to remember what a fraction is, but to no avail. So, I wrote my own song to the tune of ''Three Blind Mice'' Fractions Fractions are fun. Fractions are fun. Many parts of one. Many parts of one. The ...

White and Smart Board Activities http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/sciencemath.htm http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/ (language arts) http://www.myinteractiveclassroom.com/ http://www.learningtoday.com/corporate/second-grade-interactive-whiteboard-lessons.asp (2nd ...

The brand new Counting Songs CD from Have Fun Teaching is a huge hit with teachers, parents and kids. Kids love these songs because they have a great beat, they can dance and they are learning how to skip count all at the same time!Counting Songs - Click Here to ListenThe Counting Songs CD from Have Fun Teaching is the perfect way to teach your ...

Dog Treats Abby, Carter, Scott, and Tracey reward their dogs with treats each time one of their dogs does a trick. Each child began with 10 treats.     Abby’s dog did 5 tricks. Carter’s dog did 2 less tricks than Scott’s dog. Scott’s dog did 1 more trick than Abby’s dog. Tracey’s dog did 3 more tricks than Carter’s dog. How many treats did ...

    1.  Clock Wise Game http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/clock2/index.html 2.  Telling Time ...

It's my fifth year of teaching and I have a math intervention class.  The term intervention sounds really serious, as if we're bringing in a team of family members to confront a child on drug addiction.  Apparently, it's less severe - some kids aren't getting word problems.  ''These kids do okay when you give them a math problem, but they aren't ...

It seems the more and more I talk to teachers, review standardized test scores and talk to students, the reason math is so difficult isn't the math itself, but rather the VOCABULARY.  Are we paying attention to math vocabulary and teaching it, or are we just throwing out book definitions?  If students don't understand the words on the ...

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Yesterday was our 100th day of kindergarten. We start kindergarten two days after the rest of the grades at my school so it felt a little extra special having the day all to ourselves. My sprouts have been anxiously awaiting this milestone and the anticipation was palpable Thursday afternoon as they left. We had lots of fun activities to ...