The Excretory System
It’s not “P.C.” but someone has to teach it… In this case, that someone is Teachnet contributor, Darcy Hartley-Pinard, from Northview Public Schools in Grand >>>
It’s not “P.C.” but someone has to teach it… In this case, that someone is Teachnet contributor, Darcy Hartley-Pinard, from Northview Public Schools in Grand >>>
Objective: To introduce students to their bodies, their parts, their functions, and their location. Resources: 1) Roll of newsprint from your local newspaper office. 2) >>>
This may boggle your students’ minds for a while. If a mirror reverses an image left to right, then why doesn’t it reverse the same image top to bottom? What do you think? Here’s our unscientific opinion:
Old Christmas lights and a D cell battery provide all the juice you need for a cheap-o electricity lesson.
Learning about adhesives is a real-world experience. Here are ideas to help the experience stick with your students.
Yes, it’s Fall and Halloween will be here before you know it. Reader Linda Patton shares these recipes for physics-defying goop your students can make, play with and learn from.
Salt, sugar, borax, washing soda…. There is a long list of ingredients that can go into solutions which form crystals. T2T contributors offer advice on >>>
Yes, it sounds dangerous and the potential for messes seems highly likely, but you’ll be surprised at the good, “clean” fun you’ll enjoy with your >>>
Only in the past decade or so have districts begun installing air conditioners in old schools, and including them in new schools. Air conditioning is >>>
Submitted by: Deborah Harvey Objective: Teaching vocabulary through music Resources: Recorded children’s music, written words for songs, pictures depicting vocabulary in song. Teacher Preparation: Collect >>>
Palindromes are, of course, words, verses or sentences that read backward or forward.
Idioms are phrases with non-literal meanings. Compile a list of idioms, and have students choose five or more. They can draw pictures to represent the idiom.
Students will learn to identify synonyms and antonyms by rewriting headlines from the Sports section of the newspaper.
The student will identify adjectives and adverbs and be able to use them correctly in a Christmas-related creative writing project.
Anagram solving in the classroom (along with the use of other puzzles such as acrostics, crosswords, word-searches, etc.) brings pattern recognition to the problem-solving process. In fact, algorithms have been written to port the process rather successfully over to the computer, to the point that numerous anagram generators can be found on the web. Just type in a word or phrase, hit the button, and all the work is done for you. However, solving problems without electronic intervention can have real-world value not readily apparent to your students.
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