Attention social studies teachers! Here’s a great project for the kids. Collect stories from local veterans as well as those who worked in war industries or supported war efforts in other ways. “The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife …
Now we’ve posted about a lot of education links that can be helpful to teachers, students, and parents, but if you’re looking for a truly user-friendly site with lots of educational games as well as tutorial, quizzes, and articles at …
We know that primary sources are a great way to inspire our students and help them hone their analytic thinking skills while playing the sleuth.…
Editor’s Note: Occasionally, teachers offer us lesson plans that they are using within their classrooms to post and share with other educators. This lesson plan comes from Diana Mackiewicz, who has used it in her Global Perspectives class. Global …
For years I taught Physics the usual way we are all familiar with, chapter by chapter until the year ran out. This certainly seemed to be a logical course of action when I taught in public high school but when …
The following Arts Integrated interdisciplinary curriculum unit comes to us from artist and art teacher Pat Bock and frequent contributer to www.learningdiversity.org, Diana Mackiewicz. Pat has given us examples of ways that several of us have recognized content connections, …
I’m still a relatively new teacher, but based on my experience and in reading quite a bit (for better or worse) about models for reading, I am concerned that many models of reading comprehension focus on certain aspects of reading …
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We’re gathering up the best, most effective lesson plans, categorizing them by subject, and making them available to all our readers. If you’ve got a …
As part of an ongoing effort to employ more effective methods for meaningful learning, I decided to rethink my approach to teaching a section of my Civil Rights Movement class. I typically give students a lot of background information about …
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In a recent post it was mentioned that rubrics can be very helpful not only for setting clear expectations but also for helping students understand how they earned their grade. Here’s a simple internet tool for creating customized rubrics for …
In his overview of using Graphic Novels in the classroom, blogger Wolfgang Bylsma writes that “Graphic novels require readers to be actively engaged in the process of decoding and comprehending a range of literary devices, including narrative structures, metaphor and …
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