Keven, I would love to hear more about the kinds of things you are mentioning--process skills, projects, team building, class building, openers........... I am...
I love the idea. However, what kind of baggies? And do you do the activity with them, or did u have the jello already made and then you placed every part as...
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Oct 1, 2004 1:14 pm
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We also try to keep our 7th grade curriculum inquiry based, however we were taken to task with the High School since the students were coming to them unable to...
I highly recommend the Teaching with TOYS series of books from Learning Triangle Press (McGraw-Hill). Activities cover K-9. I picked up four books at the last...
I agree that the students need to read some of the text and learn to take notes. It also helps them to know where in the book the material is and can refer to...
From: Kellock, Jeanie ... Part of the format for my inquiry labs is that students write their own reports! ;-) I can't imagine doing inquiry without students...
Once my son had to do the cell. I helped him take lime jello, and I used a slice of Kiwi (makes a great nucleus), I took a scoop of cool whip and used it for...
Betty Deatherage
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Oct 1, 2004 9:04 pm
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... From: eggingrich ... No prob! I don't think I am doing anything evolutionary though but will share what I can! :-) All of my classes start of with bell...
From: lcrowe1415@... ... Greases up the shower tiles some! :-) They get kinda gunky after a while, and I found the expo cleaner makes the shower tile...
Get some black felt and cut squares, put the 3"x3" square along with a set of colored expo markers in a ziplock baggie and you got a kit for each team to use...
Kids told me King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk. ;-) -Keven 8th Grade Class Website http://myweb.cebridge.net/keven_y ... From: salimohame@... To:...
You just have to remind students that a discussion of King Henry's demise is not suitable as an answer to a test question regarding the metric prefix line......
I hated counting off for conversions of 8.5 Chocolates to 85 Milks. DOH :-) -Keven 8th Grade Class Website http://myweb.cebridge.net/keven_y ... From:...
I do the balloon race when studying friction. Just use different types of "tracks." I've found that yarn, string, and fishing line work really well to show a...
Margaret Lowry Brock
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Oct 1, 2004 11:31 pm
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My best suggestion would be to pick a specific topic and send it out to this group. They seem to have better ideas than anyone else. By the way -- I realized...
Margaret Lowry Brock
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Oct 1, 2004 11:37 pm
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When I teach the cell, I make a giant cell for all of the students to get into. Using duct tape and clear plastic dropclohs I make a "bag" to blow up with a ...
Margaret Lowry Brock
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Oct 1, 2004 11:39 pm
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Try pouring extra into ice cube trays and freezing until you need it. I've had it work well and not at all. I'm not sure what the difference was -- perhaps...
Margaret Lowry Brock
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Oct 1, 2004 11:41 pm
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Generally, I don't use the textbook for much more than vocabulary development, but this year I will be using it more to help out our language teacher. Part of...
Last year I took an activity that compares a cell to a city, and changed it to compare a cell to a school. For instance the principal is the nucleus and his...
I just got the shower tile boards this year and will keep the WD-40 in mind. This week when the students needed to learn lab equipment names, I reviewed with...
Years ago when I taught cell structure, I started the unit by decorating my classroom as cell with large versions of the organelles and displayed caution tape...
Only thing that gives me pause about using them is students not capping the markers. ... -Keven 8th Grade Class Website http://myweb.cebridge.net/keven_y ... ...
how do you find enough activities for that much hands on -- let alone the time to prep and the equipment to use. what do you teach? life? earth science? ... ...
THANK YOU for all of the wonderful hurricane sites! Dee, you brought back memories to me from 1989. I lived through Hugo and, as him, none other. Hugo was over...
Keven, I would like to see your skill building ideas. Do you have your bellwork questions already made, or do you make them up as you go? In other words, can...
I know! :) ... _________________________________________________________________ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to ...
Margaret Lowry Brock
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Oct 2, 2004 12:36 pm
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I really like the cell school activity -- thanks. I used an activity last year that has the students playing different roles as cell organelles and sending...
Margaret Lowry Brock
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Oct 2, 2004 12:49 pm
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I missed the begining of the shower tile board discussion, what type of shower tile are you using? It seems to be much cheaper than purchasing small white...
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