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Category: 21st century skills
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Wednesday, Improve Your Resources Page
Resource pages are a useful feature of classroom websites. They give students, parents, and colleagues a handy guide to the sites that you like to recommend, support for homework, and a chance to share discoveries. If you give extra credit for completing online games or quizzes, this is a… Continue reading
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Tuesday, Fix Your Colors
On Sunday we figured out how to get into our web page to work on it, we decided the purpose of our page, and we refreshed our memory about the rules our school has for web pages. Monday we planned our layout and either made the boxes for our content… Continue reading
Cinco de Mayo Lesson Plans
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in your classroom! Hold the margaritas, obviously, but otherwise it’s fiesta time! The first thing is to be sure not to call May 5 “Mexican Independence Day.” Mexico has an Independence Day in September. Cinco de Mayo is a day to celebrate the victory of a… Continue reading
Better Classroom Website in a Week: Monday, Plan Your Layout
Most of the classroom and faculty webpages we saw as we randomly wandered school websites really didn’t have any layout at all. With some excellent exceptions, faculty pages tend to have a box or two randomly placed on the page: In these examples, the school provides a frame that keeps… Continue reading
A Better Classroom Website in a Week
Let’s assume that you’re not a web designer and you don’t want to become one. Does that have to mean that your classroom wikki, faculty web page, or school website can’t be a high quality, usable site? We don’t think so. This week, we’re going to give you… Continue reading
Celebrate National Library Week in Your Classroom
It’s National Library Week, and libraries are certainly worth celebrating! In fact, April is also School Library Month, so you can keep your celebration going for quite a while. Some resources for National Library Week: The American Library Association has some social media events and contests. A PDF with ideas… Continue reading
National Poetry Month Lesson Plans
April is National Poetry Month. Most of us teach poetry at some time, for some reason. Whether it’s nursery rhymes for essential pre-reading skills for the littlest students or sonnets for the AP exam, rhymes to help remember math facts or opportunities to express emotion in acceptable forms, most… Continue reading
Civil War Places with Google Earth
A KML (Google Earth) file of Civil War Battlefields to download: Battles of the U.S. Civil War. Each map point has a link to a description of the battle that took place there. Clarence Woodcock is the author. https://youtu.be/bsbvTWFdnQY More resources on the Civil War in Google Earth: A Google… Continue reading
Careers Lesson Plan: Engineering
Engineers use science and math to create solutions to problems. Here’s a simple lesson plan for exploring this career path: Begin with a KWL chart that captures what students already know about engineers and engineering. Once you’ve listed all the things you know about the subject, ask students for… Continue reading
