Science magazine is inviting young people to contribute responses to a GREAT question. Unfortunately, the deadline to submit a 250 word response is May 17th, the day after I publish this post. Here’s their question: You can travel back in … Continue reading →

The Why? Files: The Science Behind the News #scichat  #sschat “The mission of The Why Files is to explore the science, math and technology behind the news of the day, and to present those topics in a clear, accessible and accurate manner.” University of Wisconsin-Madison A new story is added each week. Excellent resource that also ...

I promised I would be back to share some things we have been working on, so here I am! In Math, we have been doing some serious geometry. We have been learning about kinds of lines, pairs of lines, the parts of a circle, and angles! To help us review the different kinds of lines, I gave the students some sequins and cardstock and they created each ...

 CHECK OUT MY NEW TEACHERSPAYTEACHERS WIDGET!! YAYClick on the arrows to see my other lessons! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hands on projects!  As I've said in many of my posts, we have to really encourage creativity in ourclassrooms these days, even if it means a ten minute group brainstorming, problem solvingtopic that makes the kids THINK. I know that ...

The Guardian has just published an interactive infographic that lets you see the temperature change over the past one hundred years in most locations in the world. Just type in your city and country and, voila, you see it graphed … Continue reading →

We created this mini-book to help guide your students through the reading of nonfiction texts.  This booklet can be used with a nonfiction book or even a chapter in a textbook.  This booklet encourages students to make predictions about what they will learn.  They also record new vocabulary words and practice finding the main idea and details.  ...

Do you use anchor charts? I use both the handwritten ones and the ones I make on the computer. My newest project is an anchor chart notebook.  It will contain anchor charts for the following 3rd grade subjects:  Reading, Language Arts, Writing, Math, Science, and Social Studies. My plan is to put them ...

Our ninth-grade curriculum includes unions on natural disasters and on New Orleans. As part of them, we examine the fact that our city, Sacramento, is now the most likely American city to suffer a catastrophic flood. Several television shows, including … Continue reading →

Here are several videos YouTube has determined to be the most viewed Sandy-related videos. I’m adding them to The Best Online Resources About Hurricane Sandy (I’ve also added a few photo links from The New York Times): Hurricane Sandy Aftermath … Continue reading →

Here are two more additions to A Beginning List Of The Best Online Resources About Hurricane Sandy: Hurricane Sandy: After Landfall is a photo gallery from The Atlantic. Hurricane Sandy: The Superstorm is a photo gallery from The Boston Globe.