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What is Going on with Weather?

The weather has been quite a popular topic on the news recently!And I think it is one of the topics coming soon on some pacing guides …In attempt to answer the questions my daughter has been asking as well as the ones I hear students ask at school, I decided to search around and see what I resources I could find!When I first did a search for weather, air pressure, predictions, and weather instruments, I was a bit overwhelmed by the results that came...

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What Are You Doing This Month?

What is your favorite type of book?I am a big fan of picture books for children or all ages (even adults)!According to the School Library Journal, a group of authors and illustrators banded together to declare November 2011 as the first Picture Book Month:Picture Book Month is an international initiative to encourage and celebrate literacy with picture books, says founder Dianne de Las Casas, an author and storyteller, who along with...

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Top 10 Sites Found in One Day!!!!

WSFCS Teachers can access netTrekker through Learning VillageSince I normally share sites related to Writing, Reading, and Creativity ….I thought I might branch out a bit and share some Science sites that I thought were interesting:Wonderville National Geographic EducationShape It Up!The Space PlaceGRINEngagingScienceAnimated Science StorybooksUsing Scrapbooks in SciencePeep and the Big Wide WorldExploratorium: Return to MarsWhat is even better...

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Making the Elections Relevant

As this year's Elections draw closer and closer do your students really know what is going on?With all of the ads on TV, radio and the internet it may be difficult for your students to see the big picture as you explain the election process to them.Although this can be discussed in all grade levels it is more prevalent right now for students that are in the eighth grade. How might you ask?Students in the eighth grade are currently learning about...

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What do you use to evaluate?

How do YOU evaluate a website?What makes YOU feel good about the information that you get and possibly use from a website?Do YOU just go with a gut feeling or is there more to it than that?I got an email from a teacher a few days ago asking for some ideas and resources she could use to work with her 3rd-5th grade students on evaluating website and conducting effective research.I had a few ideas, so I sent her some links.Then I asked friends I am...

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More Election Connections!

This morning Melissa wrote a blog post about Let's help students make connections with elections! This reminded me of some more election resources, but through Edmodo. When you are in Edmodo, there are several election communities that you can follow. (Remember you can follow any of these publisher communities in Edmodo by click on the Browse button next to the word Community). In these communities, you can connect with other teachers teaching about...

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Let's help students make connections with the elections!

Do you know how many days it is from today until the Presidential Election?Do our children understand the signs, commercials and debates they are seeing and hearing?I found something on the Library of Congress site that could help:This image is not interactive but if you click on it, you will be taken to the interactive site where it is from!At the site, when you hover on the words at the side, blue questions appear above the voting box...

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Using the Collective Knowledge for Benefit ...

I was scheduled to meet with elementary school teachers yesterday …On paper, the training was supposed to be Promethean “ActivInspire Beyond the Basics” … that can mean sooooo much.  Since I did not do trainings at that school last year, I was not really sure what “beyond the basics” meant for those teachers …But I wanted the time I spent with teachers today to be beneficial for them and guided by the questions they had …That is where LiveBinders comes...

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Hurricanes, Primary Sources, Images, and Vocabulary ...

What do you think of when you hear the word Hurricane?Do certain names pop to mind?Do pictures of water, flooding, and damage?What if nothing comes to mind when you hear that word if you have never really had any experiences with one?I grew up in NC and our Outer Banks tend to get hit hard by Hurricanes. My uncle used to be in the Coast Guard at the NC Coast. We have been on vacation at the beach when we were evacuated for a hurricane.None of my...

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Need Ideas for Ways to Use the Document Camera?

A couple of years ago, I posted a list of 10 links offering suggestions for things teachers could do usign document cameras. When I checked the links in the post recently, I found that only three of the links still worked .... yikes! So I am posting part of the post again and adding in some more current links (working ones)!Document cameras can be used to take pictures, videos, and even as web cams. I think teachers just need more information on the many ways these tools can be used. I know they also need the time to try things out. Even though...

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Connecting Birthday and History ...

My birthday is today!I was looking at Thinkfinity today and noticed the Today in History area ....I wondered what happened in history on my birthday ... so I clicked on the calendar and went to find out!That got me thinking about research for students in a class. Each student has a birthday, right? So perhaps for one research project/writing lesson, students would need to research something that happened in history on the day...

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Back to School with Edmodo

photo credit: Avolore via photo pin cc What do you do with last year's groups? You want to keep the group name and all the information, but you want to clean the group up to start fresh. Your first step would be to rename that group. For instance if you have Social Studies per 1 group, you might want to rename it SSper1. To rename a group, click on the group, then click on Group Settings and change the name. One of the reasons to rename your...

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