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As a third grade teacher, I loved having my students collect data to graph. At the time, they relied on age-appropriate graphing tools like Labs for Learning’s LabQuest and Tom Snyder’s The Graph Club. Today, there is still ample data available to collect and organize. Let me introduce you to a new graphing and calculator tool you may find useful.
These free Lab Safety Certification activities (available in seven different languages) may give students a chance to practice those decisions before they begin laboratory work. And, as a bonus, you get five posters you can print and hang in your classroom.
Art history, or history in art, has never been my thing. That’s why I found visits to museums as a student, unless they focused on scientific accomplishments, bones and fossils, to be a waste of time. Michaelangelo’s sculptures awed me as a teenager, especially David. But show me a painting, and I would end up pulling out a book to read or walking around to find something more interesting. Of course, tapestries depicting battles weren’t easily available to me. Today, I am discovering a wealth of art that I missed. It’s art that tells a story, that shifts your perspective before you even know anything about it. This blog is my rediscovery of history as described in eleven pieces of art, American history paintings aligned to the Social Studies TEKS.
Learning idioms in English, or any other language, is both fun and frustrating. The suite is built for grades three through twelve and includes a variety of English and Spanish breakouts across three grade bands. It also includes a search-first landing page, a trilingual English, Spanish, and French idiom spotlight, and an ELPS and TEKS alignment page.
Ever wonder if your students got that lesson or not? Someone said recently, “Some new teachers entering schools today don’t know what entry or exit tickets are.” I was shocked to hear that. While it’s possible, it’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that they may not be aware of the power of the high-effect size strategy, Retrieval Practice. In this blog entry, I’ll share over 130+ entry and exit tickets aligned to the Social Studies TEKS for grades 3-11. You will have to decide if they are useful or not.
