Feb
24
2008
0

What I Love About Teaching: Part #1

There's a lot I love about being a teacher. I want to break it down into a series of articles, and this first one starts with the concept of being a student as well as a teacher, continuing my own ...
Feb
20
2008
0

Student Friendly Websites

STUDENT-FRIENDLY WEBSITES Search Engines Resources: http://www.searchenginewatch.com www.kidsclick.org www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm www.onekey.com www.tekmom.com http://school.aol.com/students www.yahooligans.com www.askforkids.com www.pics4learning.com News, Polls, Surveys: www.timeforkids.com www.scholasticnews.com www.educationworld.com Science Info: www.kidshealth.org http://whyfiles.org History Info: http://rs6.loc.gov www.yahooligans.com References: http://www.encyclopedia.com http://www.m-w.com http://www.rhymezone.com Biographies, Authors: http://www.biography.com www.yahooligans.com Internet Safety Activities: http://safely.yahoo.com
Feb
18
2008
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Curriculum Coming Soon

The following samples of original units will be coming soon to tweenteacher.com: “Meanwhile…,” an integrated comparative History Unit that spans approximately 2 weeks of CORE lessons.  Meanwhile focuses on and uses strategies that employ many of Howard Gardner’s categories of multiple-intelligences, ...
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Feb
17
2008
0

Education X-Prize

Maybe it’s time that education outsourced our brainstorming.   Maybe it's time that we listen to people outside of education brainstorm what to do inside of education. Check out The Opinion page of USA Today for February 13.  In it, various authors ...
Feb
07
2008
1

Fundraising Stinks

In response to a recent Washington Post article: Obviously nobody has a problem with tackling the obesity problem in this country in any way we can. I remember the time when everyday for 10 months straight students would come up to ...
Feb
04
2008
0

cue conference

CUE Conference March 6-8, 2008 Palm Springs   I will be presenting at CUE this year.  My seminar is called “Podcasting with 50 Middle Schoolers – Are You Crazy?!” Six years ago I went to CUE for the first time on the lower tier of the ...

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