Eaton End-of-Year Forms April 30, 2009
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Power Point Lessons by Subject Area April 30, 2009
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Pete’s PowerPoint Station – All Aboard!
| Good morning everyone,
I love to save time. Who doesn’t? Thanks to Diigo user Jim Farmer, Instructional Technology Coach for Ware County (Georgia) School System, I have a site to share that will, I am certain, save us both time! It’s a resource site called Pete’s PowerPoint Station.
I’m usually not a fan of sites with pages and pages of links, but Pete’s PowerPoint Station is something of an exception. For one, it’s well organized visually:
You can quickly scan this list and find something of interest. Before long, you’re browsing a selection of, for example, ready-to-use Language Arts PowerPoints, then drilling down further, you find some on Alphabet & Ordering, and in a matter of seconds you’re looking at PowerPoints you can use right away or modify to your purpose. While it is true you can use Google’s Advanced Search feature to look specifically for .PPT file directories like PowerPoint Station do add value. But wait … there’s more! The Greta’s Games section has some interesting educational diversons to distract your kids from counting down to the last day of school, and Hannah’s Homework Help section offers support during their favorite out-of-school activity. But seriously, Pete’s PowerPoint Station is worthy of a few mouse clicks – I bet you’ll find something that will save you time with an upcoming lesson. I did! |
Reading Comprehension Resource April 30, 2009
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Into the Book
| I got this site from Florida List member, Debra Meyer. Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. Focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. There are videos and online interactive activities. Behind the Lesson provides information and teaching resources for each strategy. – The URL: http://reading.ecb.org/ |
Classic Children’s Songs & Stories April 29, 2009
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Hear classic children’s records at Kiddie Records Weekly
 Before Hannah Montana, before the Wiggles, before the Backyardigans and other execrable music for the younger set came the great children’s records of the 1940s and 1950s. Now that I’ve reached the age where I believe everything older is automatically better, I’m considering turning my own kids onto some of these classics from a bygone age.
Kiddie Records Weekly plays vintage music for tots from the golden age of children’s music. You can download these records, or listen to them in streaming audio. When they were originally released, several of these records came with a read-along storybook. Kiddie Records Weekly provides digital versions of these books, allowing you to follow along just as your parents (or grandparents) might have. The album covers are a treat as well, featuring colorful illustrations, classic childhood characters, and the long-lost art of cursive writing. So if you’d like a change of pace from another Dora the Explorer sing along, let your elementary students try out something from Kiddie Records Weekly. -BILL FERRIS |
Marzano Templates for Promethean April 29, 2009
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Using Classroom Technology to Enhance The Art & Science of Teaching
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With 79 teachers from 50 schools all looking to answer key questions such as whether experience, subject taught or duration of teaching with a whiteboard impacts on achievement, one thing from the study is evident – the need for crystal clear learning goals. But for the average teacher looking to take some of this theory into practice, where do you start? Well, how about with this exclusive Marzano & Associates Learning Goals Templates resource pack on Planet? Teaching is an Art Using principles from Marzano’s book The Art & Science of Teaching, this resource pack includes 20 templates that can help set clear learning goals and track students’ understanding of these goals. Why not start at the beginning (they unpack in order) and use the first template to set the learning goals, ultimately ending up with the plenary template. Use with Activote or Activexpression These templates are perfect with your Learner Response Systems as they include voting options incorporated into the pages – use them to determine how much your students knew about the topic before the lesson and how much more they know after the lesson. Revealing MoreThan Just Answers As well as giving your students a clear learning goal expectancy, the templates can also reveal more than just the answers. For example, who doesn’t understand the topic? Who needs me to explain more? What did we not cover that you still need to know? |
Power Point Review Games April 29, 2009
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Power Point Review Games
provide educators and trainers with easy-to- assemble educational games in a technology- enhanced environment to support key learning points. The site demonstrates the creative use of popular game shows and other familiar games to reinforce learning.
Power Point Lessons by Subject April 29, 2009
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This page serves as a central collection point for useful instructional powerpoint presentations. Teachers are encouraged to share the ppt presentations that they use so that they may be added to this collection. Please email your presentations to
John Geanangel or Brenda Burkett.
To view these PPTs please click on the link in the 2nd column. If you would prefer to download these files, you should right click on the link and choose “Save target as”.
If you do not have PPT but you would like to view these presentations, you can click here to download and install MS PowerPoint Viewer.
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Math
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Level
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Title
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Description
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Author(s) – School |
| Elem. | Addition Shortcuts | Teaches how to take advantage of the commutative law by making combinations of 10 when adding long columns of numbers. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Subtraction Shortcuts | Teaches a time saving method of how to borrow across zeros and gives tips to avoid common subtraction errors. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Multiplication | Teaches multiplication facts by pointing out all the patterns that will help students to remember. Goes with Multiplication 2 | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Multiplication 2 | Teaches multiplication facts through rhymes, stories, and word plays. Goes with Multiplication lesson. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Multiplication Expressions | Teaches product, times, and how to write multiplication problems with variables, parentheses in multiplication and T-charts | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Long Division | Uses mnemonic device of family to teach 5 steps of division. Example is of 3 digits divided by 1 digit using the long division method. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Short Division | Teaches how to divided 3 digits by 1 digit using the short division method. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Division with 0 | Teaches how to divide when there is a zero in the middle of your dividend. Uses mnemonic device of family to teach 5 steps of division | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Division with Money | Teaches how to divide money and emphasizes where to put the decimal point. Uses mnemonic device of family to teach 5 steps of division. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | 2 Digit Division | Teaches how to divide 2 digits into 3 digits with remainder. Uses mnemonic device of family to teach 5 steps of division. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Division Trouble | Teaches how to divide large numbers such as 2 digits into 4 digits and also teaches the shortcut of covering the last number in your divisor and dividend in order to come up with a good estimate for the number in the quotient. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions I | Teaches what numbers in a fraction represent. Defines numerator and denominator. Gives many visual representations of fractions using circles, objects and rectangles. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions II | Teaches wholes, halves, thirds, quarters, eighths, fifths, tenths and how they are related to each other using pies. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions III | Teaches greater than and less than and how to compare fractions when the numerator is 1. Visual models of each problem. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions IV | Teaches equivalent fractions and how to find them. Many models of equivalent fractions given. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions V | Defines and illustrates a mixed number. Illustrates the relationship between a mixed number and improper fraction. Teaches how to change an improper fraction to a mixed number and a mixed number to an improper fraction | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions VI | Teaches factor, common factor, simplest form, greatest common factor and how to simplify or reduce fractions. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions VII | Teaches how to add fractions with like denominators. Some answers are simplified. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions VIII | Teaches how to subtract fractions with like denominators. Some answers are simplified. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions IX | Teaches product, multiple, common multiple, least common multiple, and how to set up an addition fraction problem with unlike denominators. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions X | Teaches how to add fractions with unlike denominators | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions XI | Teaches how to add mixed numbers with unlike denominators and how to convert improper fractions in the answer to mixed numbers and add this to your final answer. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions XII | Teaches how to subtract unlike denominators. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions XIII | Teaches how to multiply whole numbers by fractions | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions XIV | Teaches how to multiply fractions by each other | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fractions XV | Teaches how to multiply fractions and mixed numbers | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Percents I | Teaches introduction to percents, percent equivalents in fractions and decimals. |
Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Percents II | Teaches a brief review of what a percent is and how to find percents of whole numbers. |
Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Percents III | Teaches how to change a fraction to a percent. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Associative Property | Teaches associative property, use of parentheses, order of operations and parentheses. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Exponents | Teaches exponent, base, how to read exponents, how to convert and exponent & base to a standard number | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Exponents & Large #’s | How to write scientific notation using exponents and converting scientific notation back to standard numbers. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Fact Families | Teaches addend, multiplicand, inverse operation, 4 members of fact family for addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Mean, Median, Mode | Teaches the definitions of mean, median, mode and range and how to find each in a given set of numbers. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Factors & Prime Numbers | Teaches the definitions of product, factor, prime number, composite number, prime factorization and how to do prime factorization using a factor tree. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Place Value | Teaches periods to trillions, expanded form, standard form, and word form. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Positive & Negative Numbers | Teaches students the definitions of integers, positive and negative numbers, opposites, and how to combine integers with like signs and unlike signs. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Prime Numbers | Teaches students the definitions of factor and prime. Shows the student how to use Erastosthenes’ Sieve to find all the primes from 1 to 100. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Problem Solving I | Teaches how to solve a problem using an equation. It teaches how to use these 4 steps: 1 – understand the problem, 2 – decide how you’re going to solve the problem, 3 – solve the problem, 4 – look back and check. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Problem Solving II | Teaches how to solve a problem using a diagram. It teaches how to use these 4 steps: 1 – understand the problem, 2 – decide how you’re going to solve the problem, 3 – solve the problem, 4 – look back and check. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Rounding | Teaches how to round off whole numbers, dollars and decimals. Rounding off technique uses a four-line poem for easy memorization. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Algebra I | Teaches variable, algebraic expression, evaluating an algebraic expression, simplifying an algebraic expression, addition terms and subtractions terms used in algebra, and T-charts. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Algebra II | Teaches equation, equals, true, false or open equation, how to solve an equation, inverse operation, subtraction rule for zero, identity property, and commutative property | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Measurement | Teaches how big are a centimeter, millimeter, meter, kilometer, liter, gram, kilogram, inch, foot, yard and mile. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Graphs | Teaches graphing information from the first question to the survey, tally, bar graph, pie graph, line graph, and pictograph. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Coordinate Geometry | Teaches students the definitions of grid, coordinate grid, ordered pair, x-axis, y-axis, coordinates and how to plot ordered pairs and to find the ordered pair for a given point in the four quadrants. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Geometric Patterns | Teaches how to look for patterns in geometric designs using triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, hexagons and square blocks. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Quadrilaterals I | Teaches the definitions of polygon, degree, angle, quadrilateral, the family of quadrilaterals, and the sum of all the angles in a quadrilateral equals 360 degrees. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Quadrilaterals II | Teaches the family of quadrilaterals, how to find the perimeter of all quadrilaterals and the area of squares, rectangles, and parallelograms | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem. | Triangles I | Teaches the definitions of polygon, degree, triangle, angle, and the sum of all the angles in a triangle equal 180 degrees. | Monica Yuskaitis, Walter White Elementary School, Ceres, California |
| Elem./MS | Divisibility Rules | Students will identify numbers divisible by 2, 3, 5, 9, 6, and 10. Introduce this math concept with a PowerPoint show and Word handout. An Excel Quiz is included for assessment. Lesson details |
Pope Frye, Oak Grove Elementary School, Lexington, South Carolina |
A special thanks goes to Monica Yuskaitis of Walter White Elementary School in Ceres, California for sharing these wonderful math ppts.
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Level
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Title
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Description
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Author(s) – School |
| Elem. | Traveling Around South Carolina | The lesson has a power point presentation that provides the students with important places, people, and things they should associate with the Low Country of South Carolina. Lesson Details |
Cynthia Jackson Oak Grove Elementary Lexington, South Carolina |
| Elem. | 3 Branches of Govt. | Describes the 3 branches of govt. | Tricia Huff Lake Murray Elementary Lexington, South Carolina |
General | Physical | Biology | Physics
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Level
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Title
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Description
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Author(s) – School |
| Elem. | Butterflies | This powerpoint introduces Butterflies Lesson Details | Deborah Foust Lake Murray Elementary Lexington, South Carolina |
| Elem. | Insects | Teaches the basics about insects. | Glenna Shealy Red Bank Elementary Lexington, South Carolina |
| Elem. | Amphibians | Introduces the basics of amphibians. | Glenna Shealy Red Bank Elementary Lexington, South Carolina |
| Elem. | Pumpkins | All about pumpkins! | Brenda Burkett Lake Murray Elementary Lexington, South Carolina |
Award Maker April 27, 2009
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MyAwardMaker.com: Free, Fast, & Fabulous Award Certificates!
| Good morning all,
It’s almost May, and that means June and the end of the year will be here before we know it. Soon, it will be “awards and celebrations” time. Assemblies, year-end parties, recognition of yet another year in the classroom… Certificates are a natural here, and thanks to MyAwardMaker.com, they’ve never been easier!
Just choose the category you want, find the certificate you like, then open it up (it’s an Adobe .PDF you can save for later use offline!). Fill in the fields…
Then just print and you’re done! What could be easier? |
Math Playground April 26, 2009
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Thinking Blocks at Math Playground
| I got this one from my pal, Andy. From the site: “Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems. Thinking Blocks encourages students to look beyond the surface to discover the concepts and relationships that are at the core of every math problem.” Not only that – they’re fun! – The URL: http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.html |
Kids Learning Math Site — Check it Out April 26, 2009
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The Exciting Math Website For Kids
Our innovative math skills development programs are research based, and really work. Best of all, like everything on the KidsKnowIt Network, they are 100% FREE. Use the free math games and math activities to review, and keep your math wits sharp, or use one of our math foundations programs to develop the basic brain skills that are required to succeed with math.
