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Volume 10, Issue 31
July 31, 2008

It's About Time: Teaching Students to Tell Time
Telling time is a skill often relegated to when-the-teacher-finds-time status. But it is a skill as real-life and essential as addition and subtraction -- especially in the age of digital clocks. This week Education World offers five fun lessons focused on teaching kids how to tell time. Included: Links to 20 more lessons for teaching about time.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson312.shtml

Lit to Fit: Literature Lessons for Every Grade
Teacher Marcia Goudie's Web site -- Children's Literature Activities for the Classroom -- directs educators to lessons made to fit the literary works they teach.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson150.shtml

2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: Gold Medal Activities
As the Games get underway, Education World offers you ten gold-medal lessons about the Summer Olympics. Included: Activities that involve students in creating time lines and graphs, writing biographies of famous Olympians, and much more.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson201.shtml

Better Book Reports -- 25 Ideas
Tired of the same old book report formats? Education World presents 25 ideas for you to use or adapt.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson109.shtml

Rock or Feather: A Critical-Thinking Activity
A simple activity can reveal much about the students you work with each day. Students make and defend their choices in this activity. Printable activity sheet included.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson145.shtml

Building on Biographies: Bringing Real-Life Stories
Biographies are the stuff that great classroom activities are made of -- history, honesty, and heroism. With the help of the Internet, every teacher can bring biographies into their classrooms. Included: Ten activities that begin with biographies.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson185.shtml

More Timely Lesson Themes
Science Experiments Straight from the Web
Kids Can W.R.I.T.E. (Write, Revise, Inform, Think, and Edit) -- Activities for Every Grade
A World of Geography Lessons
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson177.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson126.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/soc_sci/geography/index.shtml

Lesson Plan of the Day
Click the link above to see dozens of recent Lesson Plans of the Day, including the five lessons below that were posted last week.
Money Math Match - Match coin bags of equal value. (Grades K-5)
The Black History Rap - Write a rap about a famous American. (3-12)
Do the Hokey Pokey - A foreign-language lesson idea. (K-8)
Stage a Debate - Ten strategies for lively classroom debates. (3-12)
Scrap Paper Project - - A lesson in following directions. (3-8)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/dailylp.shtml

Learning Game of the Week
Review many skills with the "Concentration" Review Game.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame007.shtml

News for Kids
News for Kids
See our archive of 100 news stories -- “ripped from the headlines" -- written with your students in mind. Each comes with a complete Teacher’s Guide.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/newsforyou.shtml

Friday Fun
Unscramble the four anagrams. What do they have in common?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/friday/friday035.shtml

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
Discover how "lite" diet drinks live up to their names.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/showbiz_science/showbiz_science021.shtml

From the Math Machine
Time to Move is a fun Web site for teaching measurement and sorting. (Grades 1-2)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/mathmachine/mathmachine011.shtml

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Baseball Three" teaches multiplying 2-digit numbers.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/boxcars/boxcars030.shtml

Tech Lesson of the Week
An Out-of-This-World Crossword Puzzle
Students visit an interactive Web site to research the p***ts and Sun in Earth's solar system, and then create original crossword puzzles based on their research.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp038.shtml

Writing Bug
A person you admire is coming to speak at your school -- and you must introduce that person…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug088.shtml

Reader's Theater
Writer's Block
When his teacher assigns what seems like a simple writing exercise, John discovers he's out of ideas -- until characters from his imagination help him overcome "writer's block."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater017.shtml

Go Figure
The Bird or the Egg?
How many birds can you hatch from just one egg?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/math/go_figure/go_figure009.shtml

Math Mnemonics
Add, Subtract, Multiply, or Divide
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics014.shtml

Backpacktivity
Gelatin Fun
Families learn about friction.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homework/pdfs/backpacktivity_017.pdf

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Edit info about animals from A to Z.
Ele-Middle Edits New editing activities month by month.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/animalsAtoZ.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml

Hunt the Fact Monster
Students learn Internet searching skills as they search the Fact Monster.
Primary Hunts
Ele-Middle Hunts
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml

5-Minute Fillers
Volume #6.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/fillers.shtml

Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers’ Voices section of this week’s themed booklists:
Best Books for Teaching About...
Math Concepts
Communities and Community Helpers
http://www.educationworld.com/a_bestbooks/archives/students.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 August Month of Fun, August Word Search, and August Coloring Calendar. PLUS: Create-your-own work sheet templates.

Professor Joe Martin: The Educator Motivator
Who Said You Have to Change?
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes; the problem is when we fail to correct those mistakes based on stubbornness, ignorance, fear, pride, or even anger. Whenever I find myself guilty of that, I describe it as being "stuck on stupid."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/martin/martin009.shtml

Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Teaching Special-Needs Students in the Regular Classroom
Although it might feel like it sometimes, we are not alone when dealing with special-needs students. Unlike the old one-room schoolhouse teacher, educators today have a number of support resources available through their schools and districts.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/mcdonald/mcdonald022.shtml

Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
Follow Through and Pseudo-Compliance
In the body-language-poker game, teachers fold when they turn away from a situation before the students have folded. Students fold when they abandon pseudo-compliance and actually get back to work. You have to stay in the game until the students fold.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones011.shtml

Larry Bell's Somebody Needs You!
Power Verbs Help Ensure Students’ Test Success
I have found that when you put the same kinds of "Power Verbs" on regular teacher assessments as appear on most standardized tests, then you have given students a tool that will vastly improve their chances for test success.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/bell/bell005.shtml

Dr. Ken Shore: Classroom Problem Solver
Understanding School Bullying
Bullying takes place when a stronger or more powerful child intentionally and repeatedly hurts, threatens, or torments a more vulnerable child. Bullying is deliberate, happens more than once, and represents a marked imbalance of power between bully and victim.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore063.shtml

Cathy Puett Miller: The Reading Coach
Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction into Content-Area Classrooms
The 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress reports that less than one third of U.S. high school students read or write at grade level. What can local schools do?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller023.shtml

Teacher Feature
Run the Capitals
George Mussar's phys ed students run the state capitals.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature021.shtml

Sites to See
Free Photos on the Web
Looking for copyright-friendly images for presentations and student work? Want hard-to-find historical images or photos from a country halfway across the world? Check out these Web sites filled with images you can use today.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites067.shtml

What can you do with SchoolNotes? Check out Ms. Juneau's Class.
http://www.schoolnotes.com

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This week, Education World reviewed three Web sites of interest to educators.

WW2 People's War
Vast collection of personal histories about World War II.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r1107-28.shtml

Welcome to Israel
Visit Israel virtually at this site for kids.
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r1107-26.shtml

Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Order (and learning) in the court!
http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2007/r1107-19.shtml

 

This Week's Survey Question
Should parents have a say in choosing to which teachers their children are assigned?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/survey/survey001.shtml

Last Week's Survey Results
Do you think your students treat you with appropriate respect?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/survey/survey145.shtml

 

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."

The Bully Free Classroom
Subtitled "Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8," this useful volume provides well over 100 bite-sized ideas that are quick to read and common-sensical. Bullying, of course, is a terrible phenomenon in schools and famously hard to deal with effectively. So, a relatively brief (166 pages) resource that offers a wide variety of ideas and approaches is probably one of the most valuable items you can have on hand as a teacher in the modern classroom.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

Rainbows, Head Lice, and Pea-Green Tile: Poems in the Voice of the Classroom Teacher
These poems deal with the humorous experiences of being an elementary school teacher, and also touch on some of the more human, poignant moments the teaching life brings. One poem, "The Threshold," dramatizes the moment a new teacher is about to step into the classroom to meet a new class of kindergarten students. "...I hesitate/For beyond this door/The future awaits me/ ...I feel a little silly/I can't stand here all day long/After all, they're just children/What could possibly go wrong?"
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The Best of the WRITING BUG

If you enjoy Education World's weekly WRITING BUG feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet with 44 of the most popular Writing Bug story starters. Use these Writing Bug activities to engage your students in effective writing. Each writing prompt will spark students' imaginations, tickle their funny bones, and motivate their pencils.

Included: In this booklet you'll find these Writing Bug titles and many more:

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