Category Archives: Lesson Plans
Learning with Technology
Perhaps the more appropriate title for this blog post would be “all I really need to know about learning with technology I learned from Mrs. Cassidy’s blog.” Kathy Cassidy has maintained a class blog for quite a few years where she helps the rest of the world understand that technology is just a natural way … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Lesson Plans, Technology, Web Tools
Tagged Kathy Cassidy, Storify
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Teq Calendar Lessons for May
This month the Teqsplorers are visiting the Large Hadron Collider to help us learn how to find circumference and radius as well as study the behavior of quarks. You can join the Teqsplorers and download interactive lessons on these topics for SMART Notebook, RM Easiteach, and ActivInspire from our Educator Resource Center.
In the … Read more
Day of Pi
Pi is an extremely interesting number, and the day to celebrate it is 3/14. The continuing pop culture references to Pi are evidence of the love people have for Math, and Math’s most widely known constant. Author of the Life of Pi, Yann Martel, said this of his choice of the name “Pi” for … Read more
Posted in Lesson Plans, Math, Notebook
Tagged 3.14, Life of Pi, Math, Pi, Pi Day, SMART Notebook, Yann Martel
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Teq Calendar Lessons for December
This month the Teqsplorers travel to Mexico for a visit to the Mayan Pyramids to learn about the Earth’s rotation and revolution as well as measuring volume. You can join the Teqsplorers and download interactive lessons on these topics for SMART Notebook, RM Easiteach, and ActivInspire from our Educator Resource Center.
Mayan Rotation and … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Educator Resource Center, Lesson Plans, Science
Tagged ActivInspire, Educator Resource Center, Interactive Lessons, Promethean, RM Easiteach, Teq Calendar
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Teq Calendar Lessons for November
This month the Teqsplorers travel to Asia for a visit to Mongolia to learn how to Find Fossils and Calculate Half Life. You can join the Teqsplorers and download interactive lessons on these topics for SMART Notebook, RM Easiteach, and ActivInspire from our Educator Resource Center.
Finding Fossils, for high school students, covers … Read more
Posted in Educator Resource Center, Lesson Plans, Science
Tagged ActivInspire, Educator Resource Center, Interactive Lessons, Promethean, RM Easiteach, SMART Board Resources, Teq Calendar
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Common Core Aligned Lesson Planning
It wasn’t that long ago that many teachers were working to design a lesson plan template that they could easily fill in using some sort of software. It made life a little simpler and, because plans were stored on the computer, it saved us from purchasing a new plan book every year. Now, there are a number … Read more
Posted in Common Core, Lesson Plans, Technology
Tagged Common Core Standards, Common Curriculum, Lesson Plans
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TED-Ed and the Flipped Classroom
TED-Ed is a platform where educators can find videos, many of which are the result of collaborations between teachers and animators, to supplement and enrich their core curriculum. Teachers using Ted-Ed can select any educational video to create a customized lesson, and choose whether to share it publicly or privately, tracking its impact on their students or … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Lesson Plans, Technology, Video
Tagged Flipped Classroom, Interactive Lessons, Luke Rowsell, TED-Ed
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5 Ways to Incorporate Felix Baumgartner’s Jump into the Classroom
1. Use Fluid Math to teach acceleration due to gravity. The video below shows how FluidMath’s Animation feature allows you to write a function (such as ay= – 9.8t2) that describes an object’s motion, and then run a simulation of the movement along a path.
2. Use Algodoo to simulate the ascent … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Fluidmath, Lesson Plans, Math, Physics, Science, STEM, Video
Tagged Algodoo, Bobak Ferdowski, Felix Baumgartner, FluidMath, NASA, PhET, Physics, YouTube
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Create Engaging SMART Table Lessons
Create SMART Table lessons with the first installment of our elearning program!
This free online PD will guide participants through the creation of a complete SMART Table lesson that can be used in an elementary science classroom.
Participants will learn the basics of using the SMART Table, specifically using the SMART Table Toolkit to develop … Read more
Posted in ELA, Lesson Plans, SMART Table, Special Education
Tagged eLearning, free professional development for teachers, Interactive Lessons, Learning Environments, online professional development, SMART Table
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Add Bounce to Instruction and Support Common Core
With Bounce, teachers can provide instruction designed to help students develop the following skills with informational text — required by the Common Core Standards:
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- Refer to details and examples in a text
Posted in ELA, Lesson Plans
Tagged Bounce, Common Core Standards, Informational Text, SMART Board Resources
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