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Volume 12, Issue 10
March 4, 2008

March Is Nutrition Month
If your students think nutrition is a dull topic, they haven't gotten the full story. They’ll be sure to gobble up these activities that will help them understand the benefits of eating well, the power of the food guide pyramid, and the history of food. Included: Classroom activities for use across the grades.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/march.shtml#nutrition

Music In Our Schools Month
Since "Music In Our Schools Month" is in the air, you might want to check out our archive of lessons any teacher can "perform."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/march.shtml#music

Women's History Month
Recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of important women past and present. Included: Cross-curriculum activities for all grades.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/women_history.shtml

Five "Eggs-traordinary" Lesson Plans: Just Add the Eggs!
Looking for a teaching theme with which to welcome spring or plan some Easter fun? We have "eggs-actly" what you're looking for. Toss eggs into the curriculum mix. Eggs can be used to teach skills in math, geography, and science. And don't forget to create "eggs-quisite" art. Included: A dozen egg-stra special lessons.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson337.shtml

Pi Day is March 14
Teachers in many classrooms celebrate Pi Day this month. Pi -- the number 3.14… -- gets its own special day on 3/14.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson335.shtml

More Timely Lesson Themes
Track the Iditarod Across the Curriculum
St. Patrick's Day Lessons Will Make You Golden

Lesson Plan of the Day
See last week's lessons; search lessons by subject.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/dailylp.shtml

Learning Game of the Week
"Musical Spelling Words" is a variation on musical chairs.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame022.shtml

News for Kids
Scientists Say Exercise Is ‘Food for the Brain’
New research indicates that exercise can improve students’ academic performance.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/newsforyou/newsforyou064.shtml

Friday Fun
Four Corners Game
A nice reward for a week of hard work.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/friday/friday010.shtml

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
How can you speed up (and slow down) the way bananas ripen?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/showbiz_science/showbiz_science059.shtml

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Adding War."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/boxcars/boxcars009.shtml

Writing Bug
Reflect on a quote from Benjamin Franklin.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug107.shtml

Early Childhood Teaching Themes
March Winds Along with spring, March blows in Nutrition and Music months.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_earlychildhood/newsletters/

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher-Submitted Lesson #1 Paper-plate art project shows a day of healthful eating.
Teacher-Submitted Lesson #2 A review game for all grades, all subjects.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/index.shtml

Bulletin Boards That Teach
Mapping March Madness
Eliminate teams from the map as "March Madness" progresses.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bullboard/bullboard028.shtml

From the Math Machine
Mathteroids is a fun Web site for teaching multiples. (Grades 3-6)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/mathmachine/mathmachine026.shtml

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Reindeer
Ele-Middle Edits Alexander Graham Bell, Barbie, Ides of March…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/animalsAtoZ.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml

Fact Monster Hunts
Primary Hunt March Hunt #2
Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #24
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml

5-Minute Fillers Volume 25
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/fillers.shtml

Vocab-ulous!
Words in which Y is a vowel.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/vocabulous/vocabulous024.shtml

Work Sheet of the Week
"Fact Families" -- basic addition and subtraction.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/worksheets/TCM/index.shtml

FROM OUR PRINTABLES LIBRARY

Hunt the Fact Monster
Build reading comprehension and Internet searching skills. Two levels: primary and ele-middle. (Grades 3-9)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml

Geography A to Z
Learn about world geography one letter at a time. (Grades 4-8)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/geography_az.shtml

Make Your Own Holiday Work Sheets
Use these holiday templates to make your own activities for any subject. (Grades Pre-K - 5)
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#holiday_editable

Sudoku Puzzles
These popular puzzles build critical thinking skills. Thirty-six puzzles in all. (Grades 3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/sudoku.shtml

Just for This Month!
See our March Month of Fun, March Word Search, and March Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this month’s themes: St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Kites, "March Madness" Basketball, Easter….
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/fun_month.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/wordsearch.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/calendar.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#holiday_editable

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Professor Joe Martin: The Educator Motivator
What Are You Paying Attention To?
“I tell my friends when they question my sanity (which is quite often) concerning teaching and my ability to maintain a positive attitude, ‘I have a simple choice: I either can focus on whining about teaching or I can focus on winning as a teacher.’"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/martin/martin006.shtml

Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
Losing It
"Teachers are human and we lose our cool sometimes. Occasionally ‘losing it’ is an understandably human response to the incessant flow of life pressures and the demands of the classroom. Perhaps, though, we can lose ourselves in song instead."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/baylin/baylin030.shtml

Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
Calm Is Strength
“Think of backtalk as a melodrama that is written, produced, and directed by the student. In this melodrama there is a speaking part for you. If you accept your speaking part in the melodrama, it is 'show time.' But if you do not, the show bombs.“
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones031.shtml

Dr. Ken Shore: The ABC's of Bullying Prevention
Dealing With the Victims of Bullying
“Just as bullies warrant your attention, so too do their victims. Your success in counseling those victims will depend largely on your ability to establish trust in the face of embarrassment and reluctance to talk about what happened."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore076.shtml

Max Fischer
Getting Ready for Readiness Differentiation
“In my classroom in recent weeks I've been reminded of my own first experiences with a two-wheeler. I've been reliving those bike-riding baby steps as I attempt the daring act of readiness differentiation."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice143.shtml

Angela Powell: Getting It Together
Storing Communal Supplies
"Designate one area of your room for communal supplies that students can access easily. Include space for infrequently used materials, as well as for materials you use frequently but don’t want students to keep in their desks."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/organization/organization020.shtml

Reader's Theater
Rapunzel's Rap
Queen Beetifah, the leader of a hive near Rapunzel's tower, raps about a princess with long, golden hair who was locked away in a tower until she was rescued by a music-loving prince.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater013.shtml

Letters About Literature
The Lead Paragraph
Students learn how to hook a reader in 25 words or less.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/Literature/LAL_page_013.pdf

Total Reader
How Cool Is That!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev149.shtml

Math From the Past
Math and Literature: A Match Made in the Classroom
If you're looking for a new way to add relevancy to your classroom math activities, the answer may be right in your school library. Literature is the ideal vehicle to help students see the importance of numbers in their daily lives.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr249.shtml

Math Mnemonics
Isosoles Triangles
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics029.shtml

Teacher Feature
Special Fridays
Victor Vázquez’s Special Friday activities address multiple intelligences, add just plain fun.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature022.shtml

Strategy of the Week
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated instruction is a teaching approach in which educational content, process, and product are adapted according to student readiness, interest, and learning profile. Discover why research into how students learn led to changes in how teachers teach.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy042.shtml

From Our Archives
Kids Fill the Gap in Women's History
Meet the teachers (and some of the kids) behind three student-created online resources for teaching about women's history.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr204.shtml

Women's History Gets Its Due on the Web
Often overlooked by historians, women have contributed to the development of national and international societies just as men have.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr121.shtml

Homework Study Hall
Startled by the number of failing grades his students were receiving, principal David Chambers made making up missed work a mandatory activity. The policy has raised students' GPAs and improved teacher morale. Could it work for your school?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin347.shtml

Where Have All the Staff Rooms Gone?
As working lunches become the norm in schools, educator Brenda Dyck reflects on a time when the staff room was the hub of the teaching community, and offers ideas for improving social networks in your school.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice108.shtml

Backpacktivity
My Hero
Students and their families explore the qualities of heroes.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homework/pdfs/backpacktivity_029.pdf

Classroom Management Tips
Pairing and Grouping
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips046.shtml

Contests and Competitions
ThinkQuest
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/archives/contests.shtml

Tips Library
Classroom Management: Group Rewards
Behavior Management: A Little Extra Effort
Motivating Kids: Publish Student Work Online
Book Report Makeover: Now You're Cooking!
Homework Tips: Spell It Out!
Best Idea Ever: The Daily News
Testing Tips: Rubric Aid
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips029.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/behaviortips/behaviortips029.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/motivation/motivation029.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bookreport/bookreport029.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homeworktips/homeworktips029.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bestidea/bestidea029.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/testing/testing029.shtml

New! TGIF Have you seen Education World's new TGIF feature? Each Friday, TGIF rewards you for making it through another week. Take a deep breath, enjoy some cool ideas and resources, and get your weekend off to a great start! In Volume 4 New Jersey teachers win big (in state lottery)... Contest challenges kids to think about their futures.. Online Word Builder game spells f-u-n... Watch for all new content this Friday in TGIF!

Brenda Dyck's Blog
Google Goes to School
"Over the past year, Google has stretched their search capabilities to include an abundance of open source web applications tailor-made for teachers. In fact, they've called this new suite of tools Google for Educators."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/dyck/dyck025.shtml

Bernie Poole's Essential Microsoft Office 2007
More on Excel Spreadsheets
Lesson 4 of Bernie Poole's Essential Microsoft Office 2007 expands on the previous spreadsheet lesson, providing information on how to change and maintain existing spreadsheets.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/poole/office_tutorials/Lesson5_2007.pdf

Doug Johnson's Tech Proof
Are 21st Century Skills Right Brain Skills?
"To what extent should we be helping kids develop design sense, storytelling abilities, synthesis, feelings for others, humor, and the ability to detect the importance of the information they learn?"
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson006.shtml

Lorrie Jackson's Techtorial
Connect the Dots
"Believe it or not, Microsoft Word has all the tools you need to create connect-the-dots worksheets on any topic -- and it's as easy as 1, 2, 3."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial093.shtml

Sites to See
Nutrition
Every day, it seems, scientists discover new information about nutrition and the effects of different food on the human body. Help keep kids up-to-date on the latest nutritional information with regular visits to some of the best nutrition sites on the Web.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites022.shtml

Tech Lesson of the Week
Drive-Thru Nutrition
Students use online resources and a spreadsheet program to compare the fat and calorie content of various food items at 12 popular fast-food restaurants. Then, they create a day's worth of healthful menus using food from those restaurants.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp029.shtml

Tech Classroom Spotlight
Teach Jeff Corwin Spanish
Chris Craft's sixth graders use video productions to teach Spanish vocabulary.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature174.shtml

Template of the Week
Presidential Campaign Timeline
Students follow a year of campaigning with this Presidential Campaign Timeline.
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/template_HomeReadingLog.pdf

Tech Talk
Free Online Teacher Tools
Bernie Poole describes a few of his favorite online teacher tools -- including RubiStar, BlogMeister, Survey Builder, and Web Collaborator.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech231.shtmll

Tech Team
Best of the Web
The Education World Tech Team offers lessons and activities to help educators make better use of technology tools for instruction, and to help students improve their technology skills within the context of the regular curriculum.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech230.shtml

Keep Kids Safe Online
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech_tips/tech_tips026.shtml

Interactivity
Boost
Encouraging peers to give one another a "boost" to stay in school.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/interactivity.shtml

SMART: World Teachers' Day
This week's featured video on the classroom uses of SMART Board interactive whiteboards was recommended by Heba Brohi, a 4th grade teacher at Pennsylvania's Villanova Academy.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/videooftheweek.shtml

Do you have a comment about this video -- or a favorite online video you'd like to recommend to other educators? Click here to let us know about it.

Join the Conversation
What's your favorite open source software?
http://forums.educationworld.com

Web Wizard
From Whim to Mania
Tallman's TallMania! site provides resources -- and surprises -- for everyone.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/webwizard073.shtml

Click here to share your classroom Web site with Education World readers.

How Cool Is That!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev149.shtml

What can you do with SchoolNotes?
Check out Mr. Lagazo's site to find out!
http://www.schoolnotes.com

NEW! From the Principal Files
Interviewing for the Principalship: Tips from Principals
Interviewing for a principalship can be a grueling process. But aspiring principals can relieve some of the stress by heeding advice from experienced principals who have been there, done that. This week, our “Principal Files” principals share their best advice and some practice interview questions that are sure to help pave the road for the principals who will follow in their footsteps and fill their shoes.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin514.shtml

Evelyn Cortez-Ford's Coaching Teachers To Be Leaders
How Do I Know I'm Ready to Share Leadership?
It is not unusual for principals to be concerned about sharing leadership with teachers. Few teachers and principals have formally been prepared to share leadership. Sharing leadership often requires a principal to make a personal transformation.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/cortez-ford/cortez-ford002.shtml

Pete Hall's Always Strive To Be a Better You!
Mentoring and the Three Golden Rules
New principals have no idea what they're about to encounter. That is not their districts' fault; they hired competent leaders. The principalship is simply a beast that cannot be understood until one has wrangled with it. Included: Three "golden rules" for principals.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/hall/hall004.shtml

The Principal Poet
Mr. Ivan, Education World's Principal Poet, presents "Pencil Billy.”
Billy chewed his pencils.
He chewed them every day.
And each time his teacher caught him
She’d shout, “Billy, put that thing away!”…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/ivan/ivan009.shtml

Meet the other members of Education World's Columnist Team.

Instant Meeting #18
Help your staff describe and build enthusiasm for the future.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/meetingidea/meetingideas019.shtml

Take Five for…
Planning effective and fun staff meetings.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/takefive/takefive005.shtml

Pawlas on PR
Build communication with breakfast meetings, newsletter Q&A’s.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/pawlasPR/pawlasPR034.shtml

"Reading Buddies" Pair Up for Literacy
Future teachers and elementary students read and correspond to improve skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/partners/partners007.shtml

How I Handled…
Making exceptions to our student dress code.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/how_i_handled/how_i_handled051.shtml

Exceptional Event
Arts Celebration Night.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/exceptional_events/exceptional_events029.shtml

Grant of the Week
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/grants/additional_grants.shtml

Principal Ideas #40
Check out our archive -- 40 volumes full of principal ideas.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/ideas.shtml

Morning Math
Questions for Week #24.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/morning_math.shtml

More From the Principal Files
What Makes Effective Teaching Teams Tick?
Many successful schools share a common trait: they teem with the spirit of team teaching, which has huge benefits for students' academic and social growth. Here Education World’s “Principal Files” principals share the characteristics of their strongest teaching teams. What makes those teams tick? Included: Benefits of teaming, plus “Ten Commandments for Effective Teams.”
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin408.shtml

Conventions & Conferences
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Newsletters 'R Us
Copy and paste this free content into your teacher or school newsletters.
The ABCs of Student Success Z is for Zoomed
Caught on the Web Match the Measurements (Grades 3-up)
Newsletter Clipart Library Spring, St. Patrick's Day…
Fun Facts Volume #18
Parent Newsletter Template Kites
Math @ Home Tracking Time #3
Parent Pointers Rewarding Your Children
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/newsletters.shtml

From Our Leadership Archive
Morning Assembly Sets positive tone for the day, encourages involvement.
School Stores School stores teach students lifelong skills.
Sixth-Grade Transition Film made for students, by students, eases transition.
After School Everybody benefits as schools, after-school programs share data.
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http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin373.shtml
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Fit To Be Taught, Vol. 27

School program teaches students, parents to cook more healthful meals
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/fittobetaught/fittobetaught027.shtml

NCLB Updates
Accountability Systems Fuel Drop-Out Rates
The atmosphere of high-stakes, test-based accountability promoted by the No Child Left Behind Act has had a direct, negative impact on graduation rates, according to a Texas study.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/archives/NCLBupdates.shtml

Starr Points
Is High School Failing Our Kids?
When it comes to high school, we stop adapting our program to fit the students and we start expecting kids to fit the program -- or leave it. Can we afford to lose those kids whose parents can't afford to provide the resources their schools fail to provide?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues272.shtml

Read About It
What Is a Teacher Researcher?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/readit/readit012.shtml

Turnaround Tales
Early Readiness, Support Efforts Pay Off
The Waynesboro, Virginia, school district has been working with preschoolers and their parents for years to help children be ready for school and relies on a School Improvement Team when they fall behind. But expanded testing could mean problems with AYP.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/nclbwork/nclbwork036.shtml

No Educator Left Behind
Must Charter School Teachers Meet NCLB's "Highly Qualified" Requirements?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/NELB/NELB053.shtml

Teaming Up To Achieve
Cheering Classmates Send Students to Tests
Most Parkville Elementary School students know where they are and where they need to go on the state’s high stakes tests, even if they may not know why this year’s efforts are so critical. So after months of preparation, the school holds a pep rally to get them pumped.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/teamingup/teamingup009.shtml

School Doodle How Do You Spell 'Phonics'?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/school_doodles/school_doodles29.shtml

School Issues Spotlights
Issues Spotlight 1 High Schools
Issues Spotlight 2 Testing
Issues Spotlight 3 School Safety and Security
Issues Spotlight 4 Teacher Assessment
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EdScoops: Current Education News Headlines
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This Week's Survey Question
Have you ever contacted or made an effort to contact a former teacher who made a difference in your life?
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SITE REVIEWS
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This week, Education World reviewed three Web sites of interest to educators.

Aero-Pop
Fab fitness program from Canada – all downloadable for free: feel the burn!
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-29.shtml

ChemTutor
Strong site for high school or college chem. students.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-27.shtml

National Sea Grant Library: Digital Libraries
Super site about the seas, with an ocean of teaching resources.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2008/r0208-25.shtml

 

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Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
This useful book by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis takes as its first chapter title and as its philosophy, "reading is thinking," and builds upon that fundamental realization beautifully. The book, however, is not a simple collection of tips for teaching reading, but really a marriage of practical suggestions and an underlying model for how students learn to read better and, importantly, how to think more effectively.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

The Psychology of the Child
An essential book in the history of educational theory, this is a great introduction to the work of Jean Piaget. First published in French in 1966, this book lays out Piaget's six stages of sensory-motor intelligence and goes on to build upon that foundation a schema that tries to encompass the development of cognitive abilities right up to adulthood. Surprisingly brief and readable, this is one of those books every education library should contain.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

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The Best of LEARNING GAMES

If you enjoy Education World's weekly LEARNING GAMES feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet of more than 30 of our most popular learning games. PLUS an extra bonus -- ten more games for classroom fun!

These classroom games span the grades and the major subject areas -- and inject a healthy dose of fun into the serious business of teaching and learning. Looking to fill the end of a hectic day with something fun and educational? Looking for a great reward for students that will make valuable use of free time? Looking to reinforce basic skills with a fun activity? These games will fill the bill!

Included in this 80-page booklet you'll find these games and more:

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