See on Scoop.it - Education Matters - (tech and non-tech) In this lesson, students read about the new Museum of Mathematics and its mission to convey the beauty of mathematics through fun and engaging exhibits. KB…Konnected’s insight:Includes some great ideas to implement this lesson. Neat! See on learning.blogs.nytimes.com You may also like… 8 ...

See on Scoop.it - Education Matters - (tech and non-tech) This infographic shows the history and milestones of the Lego brand and is brought to you by Argos, one of the UK’s leading retailers. KB…Konnected’s insight: Here are other Lego resources that I have collected on Pinterest. Lots of neat ideas and ...

See on Scoop.it - KB…Konnected’s Kaleidoscope of Wonderful Websites! AplusClick collection of math problems, logic puzzles on numbers, geometry, algebra, word problems. Skills assessment for K1 K12. Practice Mathematics! KB…Konnected’s insight: Nice collection for practicing skills. (gr. 1-12) Via Great Maths Teaching Ideas See on ...

I had heard about this site a while back. I checked it out and knew that it looked pretty cool and that the kids would probably enjoy it. Then I got busy.  I didn’t have time to register all of my students and get their logins and passwords created. I just didn’t have time – [...]

Well I had a fantastic day with my kiddies today. They finally got their individual novels for their book clubs and everything is humming along smoothly. They are continuing to enjoy our read aloud and are beginning to understand the purpose of a Reader  Response. The highlight? I had a disengaged student who genuinely does [...]

Okay, first of all – I’m so sorry about the typo in the title of my last post! Ugh…made my stomach turn when I saw it. I know that my typing (and my spelling skills) need work sometimes but a mistake in the title? So sorry! Good thing I never claimed to be perfect, huh? [...]

A few months ago I was invited by Student Achievement Partners (achievethecore.org) to become a “Common Core Advocate” with 100 other educators across the nation. This weekend, a bunch of curriculum nerds (ha!) met in Philadelphia to really dig deep into the standards and talk about a lot of the tough questions we all have regarding ...

After Sandy: Seven Storm Idioms - http://goo.gl/RvcTb – Use current events to introduce some storm-related idiom. The Mathematics of Writing - http://goo.gl/5fw44 - “Language is messy. Maths on the other hand is neat and ordered. If algebra makes sense to you, it is a realm of certainties. So, can English harness some of this logic and precision? ...

I’ve been getting lots of traffic on my “Freebies” page from blog followers and visitors. It occurred to me, though, that maybe not everyone has looked beyond the homepage of Lessons From The Middle.  I just had a peek at the Middle School Freebies collection that I started a while back, and I noticed that [...]

My goal is to never be so far removed from the classroom that I forget what it’s like to be a teacher.  Over the last few weeks while I’ve been adjusting to my job and new responsibilities, I’ve been running from meeting to meeting, a million miles a minute, task after task, running out of time before I realized time had passed. I needed a quick ...