All Blog Posts Tagged 'lesson' (17)

Blogging about Bloom & Marzano

Blogging about Bloom & Marzano

Bloom’s Taxonomy and Marzano’s 9 instructional strategies outline best practice. When it comes to lesson planning, it is comfortable to only consider covering standards and/or implementing lessons that are fun. By boosting student achievement and engagement, both Bloom’s Taxonomy and Marzano’s research outline ways to satisfy pressures of standards and the desire to make learning fun. When lesson planning, I refer to an instructional planning tool… Continue

Added by Amanda Galvan on September 6, 2014 at 11:58am — No Comments

Investigating Bloom's Taxonomy

Project: Investigating Bloom’s Taxonomy

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy vs. Digital Bloom’s Taxonomy
Similarities	Differences
Remembering, …

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Added by Amanda Galvan on September 6, 2014 at 10:39am — No Comments

A Little Guitar Teaching Moment

Completely self-serving and proud of it, I want to share a 3 minute video at http://contest.ovationguitars.com/users/showprofile/46525651 that might fetch me a new guitar if I can muster enough votes. FYI, I recorded the "how to tune in Open G" lesson in one take using my much-loved Gibson SG Standard, which bears signatures of Scotty Moore (Elvis's lead guitarist) and others. There's also a signed pic of Scotty in the… Continue

Added by Scott Merrick on September 9, 2010 at 11:40am — No Comments

Seven FREE Online Resources for Teachers

Yesterday I gave you my top seven cloud-based applications. Today, I decided to make that the first in a top seven series and offer you my top seven online resources for teachers. All of these are sites I've used in the past to find lesson ideas, videos, or interactive elements that I could use in my classroom, and all…

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Added by Derrick Waddell on July 26, 2010 at 1:26pm — No Comments

'No Phone Zone" | Teaching Teens the Dangers of Texting and Driving

The creation of this lesson plan was inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that focused on the dangers of distracted driving.

The "No Phone Zone" lesson plan will educate students on the dangers associated with distracted… Continue

Added by Derek Baird on March 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

New Social Networking Site Helps Teachers Create and Share Lessons

This past week I finally had a chance to mess around with the curriculum sharing platform BetterLesson, and I thought I’d share my thoughts. MORE...

Added by Shawn Roner on February 15, 2010 at 7:29pm — No Comments

A Lesson Guide for Constitution Day 2.0

Each year America celebrates Constitution Day on September 17. Since 2006, federal legislation mandates that all educational institutions receiving federal funds must hold an educational program on the Constitution commemorating the day.

Remix America (http://remixamerica.org) has partnered with Constitutional Rights Foundation (http://crf-usa.org) to bring you the Constitution Day Challenge--a creative way for elementary, middle and high school students to learn about and celebrate… Continue

Added by Erika Johansson on August 31, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Art lesson plans for middle school

When I learn how to use this...I will start posting ideas that have worked for me. Currently I'm thinking about something fun with anamorphosis art. Any ideas or links would be appreciated.

Added by CA York on August 3, 2009 at 12:06am — No Comments

Need New Ideas

I am desperately searching for ideas for my classroom blog. I want to have this set in place so that I am ready for next year.

Added by Cary Fields on May 27, 2009 at 8:24pm — No Comments

Where for art thou Twitter?

I have been using Twitter for over a year. Since New Years 2009, Twitter has taken off to new heights. Everybody wants you to follow him or her on twitter, from United States Senators to Shaq, twitter has become a ubiquitous forum for those who want to know everything.…

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Added by Andrew Marcinek on April 20, 2009 at 1:26pm — No Comments

Rethinking Current Events with Newsvine

If there is one thing students and teachers despise it's clutter. One way teachers create clutter is asking students to print out a current event. Students print out weekly current events, read and summarize it, have it graded and then throw it out. I found more current events lying on my floor or in my trash than any other classroom document. Cringing already teachers? Fear… Continue

Added by Andrew Marcinek on April 14, 2009 at 6:27pm — 1 Comment

Coping with the Economy

Remix America has launched our newest initiative: "Coping with the Economy" With this initiative, we hope to provide a forum for young Americans to share their story of the economic crisis and enter a productive dialogue with their parents and grandparents.

Everybody has a story. Check out this incredible video made by high-school students in Pomona, CA:

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Added by Erika Johansson on April 8, 2009 at 6:11pm — No Comments

Black History Month Lesson Plans

In honor Black History Month, the Knowledge Essentials team has created a series of free lesson plans on Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, School Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement.

You can find these lesson plans and activity sheets, along with our entire repository of open educational resources, over on our Knowledge Essentials page on LearnHub!

Added by Amy James on February 9, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

Free President's Day Lesson Plans

It's almost President's Day and we've created a series of free lesson plans that you are free to use and share it with your colleagues.

To see all of our lesson plans, check out our repository of open educational resources over on our Knowledge Essentials page on LearnHub!

Added by Amy James on February 8, 2009 at 3:14pm — No Comments

Teaching Students about Veterans/Remembrance Day

Whether you are celebrating Veterans Day, Remembrance Day or Armistice Day, you join with millions around the world who regard this date as an important event. On November 11th, we honor men and women who fight and have fought to preserve the freedoms we enjoy. The Internet can be a great resource for teachers looking to help their students learn more about the sacrifices our veterans have made. For younger students, teachers can download some… Continue

Added by Greg from LessonGateway.com on November 2, 2008 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Announcing TeacherRated.com: where K-12 can find, share, rate and review the best online educational resources

TeacherRated.com is a free resource website created by teachers for teachers. Using TeacherRated.com, educators quickly locate the very best teaching tools, lesson plans, reference websites and student activities available online because resources are suggested, rated and reviewed by teachers.

Whether searching for lesson plans, teaching resources or student activities, many educators turn to the Internet for help. With thousands of… Continue

Added by Greg from LessonGateway.com on September 1, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Free editable unit of work

A term of work prep in Social Literacy Healthy Choices PDHPE is available for download as a word document in the free stuff section of www.uskoob.com

It is Australian NSW Curriculum- but I'm sure it can be adjusted to fit your needs

Social Literacy healthy choices PDHPE work unit

Focus; This unit will provide opportunities for students to describe ways to keep healthy and safe and explore choices relating… Continue

Added by Uskoob on July 29, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments