This photo contains at least three food allergens. Can you find them? (Photo: bensonkua/Flickr) About 3 million children in the U.S. have some form of food allergy, ranging in severity from mild to life-threatening. The number of children diagnosed with food allergies is rising: at Children’s alone, the percentage of new patients with food allergies [...]
Just last week I introduced European Imperialism in Africa to my students. The lesson went great and I felt like all of my students mastered the two objectives. Not sure if anyone needs to teach this anytime soon…but the materials can be accessed by clicking the following links. PowerPoint: Scramble for Africa Reading: Scramble for [...]
Do first grades get tested on vocabulary as well as spelling? Should I wait until 2nd grade or 3rd to really emphasize it or start early? When do I teach phonics? Teacher Forums – Teacher Chat
Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 5 Timestamp: 2011-03-25 21:21:37 UTC Congratulations Julie # 5 Julie March 22, 2011 at 11:04 am I also loved pretending to ride horses. My friend and I didn’t use props though; we just galloped around and leaped over things. My son likes to ride on a broom, [...]
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The March 20th edition of Newsweek has printed what seems like the obligatory story on Social Studies education that we have seen time and time again. The familiar storyline is this: Americans know nothing about history and we are on the verge of national crisis because of it. At fault are text book companies who [...]
I am currently attending my local community college to get my AS in early childhood education. I was wanting to know what kinds of jobs you can get with an AS degree in this field? I plan on transferring to complete my bachelor’s but I was wanting to start working in the field as soon [...]
If technology is supposed to make life easier, why is it that the more technology that comes into my life, it’s seems the less time I have to do the really important things? I’m spending all my time checking emails, sending SMS messages, shopping for stuff I don’t really need online, arranging XBox 360 Live [...]
I came across this article and thought it was great that a principal would try so hard to save the jobs of her teachers. If you click the link to go to their site there are a couple of really cute videos of students dancing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110325/…hool_shoe_sale Teacher Forums – Teacher Chat
Today, my brain tangent has been about video games. It all began on my usual morning stroll through Twitter, I saw that the Penn Reading Project had announced the 2011 book selection, Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. I watched Jane’s TED talk a [...]