Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2009

New Teaching Resources on misterteacher.com

What's New on misterteacher.com

Clip Art

Rather than offer new mini-movies this month, I've created new pages with a lot of the clip art that appears in them and the related student activities. Teachers can use the clip art in their Notebook presentations or for creating worksheets. You can find the clip art on the mini-movie page, or you can just click below:
  • Alphabet Geometry Clip Art - If you teach geometry concepts with letters, then you'll want to check out this clip art.
  • Everything Geometry Clip Art - Here you'll find triangles and quadrilaterals with the symbols that help kids classify them, types of angles, and more.
  • Dominoes Clip Art - There's a full set of double six dominoes--perfect for teaching addition, subtraction, doubles, and family of facts.
  • Science Clip Art - This modest collection includes some images for teaching various forms of energy.


Math & Social Studies Printables

Introduce your students to writing in the math classroom with a popular resource on misterteacher.com. The 59 printable math prompts that you can find in the Bright Ideas section of the site (click here to see the prompts) are perfect for assessing disposition, learning, and process.

All of the webpages that you'll find in the Slavery in America and Waves of Immigration student activities are printable. Just look for the GRAB IT! button:


The printed pages (or web-based activities) would be perfect for teaching nonfiction reading or as supplements to a social studies curriculum. You can use them to teach about the following:

Look for more mini-movies in the weeks ahead. For immediate updates, follow misterteacher.com (jtubbs) on Twitter.


More Social Studies Resources: Declaration of Independence | Constitution WebQuest

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

EduTech Wiki: A Great Resource

I am currently doing research for a book I'd like to write on student engagement. As I read articles and follow links I seem to find more and more resources on the topic. One of these resources that I keep coming back to is the EduTech wiki. It seems like every time I Google a new theory or model of motivation I find a link in the search results to this wiki. Granted the information is usually not something I would cite, but it is a great place to get a little info. before going elsewhere (just like Wikipedia).


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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Thank You Best Buy

Inquiry-based science + 8 digital cameras + Web 2.0 = Online Science Fair

Thank you to Best Buy for deeming the above project idea worthy of a $2,500 Best Buy Teach Award.

Online Science Fair is an effort on my part to integrate digital media and inquiry-based science. As a fifth grade science teacher, the goal of my program is to ensure that my students are able to think and communicate scientifically. However, I want to make my teaching relevant to the students in my classroom. One way I do this is by bringing digital media into the classroom. The current generation of students I have in my classroom has grown up surrounded by digital media. I want to design a program that enhances inquiry-based science investigations by incorporating photographic images taken with digital cameras. This is nothing new for my classroom--I have had my students upload images to their blogs for projects before to explain the experimental process.

Online Science Fair will allow these projects to become even more in depth. With eight digital cameras, my students will be able to take photos of every step of the scientific process and document their experiments more effectively. Photographic images will enable all my students to remember the steps taken in the scientific process and communicate them effectively.

Interested in taking part? We'd love to do this project with another class. Comment on this entry to express your interest.


Digital Cameras in the Classroom | Spreadsheets in the Classroom | Alphabet Geometry

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