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FUN FRIDAY: Fold-a-fossil
On their website, Canon (the camera & printer company) provides directions for creating stunning paper models of many science-related items and ideas including dinosaurs, insects, globes, sundials,...
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FUN FRIDAY: Swats o’ fun
As summer has turned to fall, you may be looking for uses for those classroom fly swatters. Well, Dr. Branstetter is here to help! Over at Notes from the School Psychologist, she is featuring rules for...
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Sustainable housing PBL
If you are a science or engineering teacher, you must explore the project-based learning idea over at EduRuminate. Students created sustainable housing (albeit on a fairly small scale) as a way of...
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TODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Water cycle cinema
Found this great water cycle video on Science Notebooking. We love the idea of teaching related skills (e.g., literacy, tech) during content area lessons. This sort of product allows teachers to do...
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Reading, writing and radon?
Science journals are becoming increasingly common in K-12 classrooms. Teachers are using them to access student thinking, to encourage reading and writing across the curriculum, and to make assessments...
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TODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Seeing stars
On occasion, we will feature some applications for smartphones and tablets that are available for purchase from Apple iTunes and Google Android stores. Today we’ll feature Starwalk, available through...
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What IS life anyway?
I have not featured it much on this site, but I do so love using “big questions” as tools for differentiation. Learners at different levels can answer them in different ways and the possibilities for...
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TODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Web-based science stations
Today, we are sharing a science lesson (from David Wetzel) featuring web-based stations from Suite 101. Note that once you involve web-based activities in your stations, differentiation becomes even...
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Dem bones
In every book I have ever written, I advocate for strategies that get lessons “off the page” and allow students to show their learning without a pencil. This idea from the website Spell Outloud is not...
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Science notebooking rubric
Are you using notebooking this year to differentiate instruction and let student’s have more control over how they learn and remember content? If so, you may be interested int his rubric over at...
View ArticleTODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Seeing stars
On occasion, we will feature some applications for smartphones and tablets that are available for purchase from Apple iTunes and Google Android stores. Today we’ll feature Starwalk, available through...
View ArticleWhat IS life anyway?
I have not featured it much on this site, but I do so love using “big questions” as tools for differentiation. Learners at different levels can answer them in different ways and the possibilities for...
View ArticleTODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Web-based science stations
Today, we are sharing a science lesson (from David Wetzel) featuring web-based stations from Suite 101. Note that once you involve web-based activities in your stations, differentiation becomes even...
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Dem bones
In every book I have ever written, I advocate for strategies that get lessons “off the page” and allow students to show their learning without a pencil. This idea from the website Spell Outloud is not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Science notebooking rubric
Are you using notebooking this year to differentiate instruction and let student’s have more control over how they learn and remember content? If so, you may be interested int his rubric over at...
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Science notebooks rock!
Notebooking is an idea that has so much promise in the differentiated classroom. Different students can add different products, a range of goals can be addressed, and artifacts can be added or created....
View ArticleFUN FRIDAY: Create your own insect
If you are a science teacher or a sixth grade teacher (or just a fun teacher), you need to know about Mr. Hofer’s blog. There are too many neat ideas out there to choose just one post, but I loved this...
View ArticleFUN FRIDAY: Tactile landscapes
We are over at the Crayola website today with a lesson that could delight your sensory-seeking students. Artistic learners will love it as well. The lesson involves having students analyze different...
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Creating clouds
I know so many tactile learners who would love this lesson from Krazy About Kiddos. Students in this first grade classroom get to stretch out and squeeze cotton balls to make the shapes and textures of...
View ArticleTODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Lights, flip camera, action
Teach Science and Math is such a great resource for K-12 educators. I check it regularly and sometimes look back at the archives to see if I have missed anything! Today I selected this older post...
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