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Reading, Writing and Research: Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum: Turn your students into savvy consumers of information. Explore reading and writing instruction and information literacy concepts, and learn to effectively integrate these literacy skills into your teaching, regardless of the subject or grade level.; Take this course: Begins May 4.

word wall: An organized collection of words displayed on a classroom wall for easy student reference. Word walls help develop student vocabulary and support reading and writing.

Story Problems Made Interesting: After introducing students to story problem stategies, students will be asked to write their own story problem(s). The problems must deal with real life situations. Fantasy worlds and silly situations are not allowed. Each student must also be able to solve their own problem(s). If the problems are not entered into a computer and saved on a disk by the students, then the teacher will compile groups of problems for the students to solve. The author's name of each problem should be attached to the problem. If a student needs help solving a problem, he/she is only allowed to ask the author of that problem for assistance.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Tim Galliher.

Ohm's Law made easy with a spreadsheet: In this lesson, students will use math word problems to help them input information into a spreadsheet that will use Ohm's law to calculate current and resistance using common household appliance wattages.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Science); By Hilda Hamilton.

Piggin' out with money: Students will work with money manipulatives to solve word problems that involve adding money amounts and making change. The lesson is introduced with the literature book, Pigs Will be Pigs. After solving the problems posed in the book, the students will work with partners to create their "pig problems". Assessment will require students to solve similar problems on a teacher made worksheet. When time allows, each student will have the opportunity to go to an Internet site to work with money problems and games.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)

Money counts: Lesson introducing counting money and making change.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics); By Angie Horne.

Let's trade (regrouping to subtract): This word (trade) will introduce regrouping to subtract by allowing students to "trade" manipulatives to regroup.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics); By Sarah Cole.

Time marches on!: Students will create autobiographical time lines, noting important events in their lives. Using these timelines, students will create word problems for their classmates to solve.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Jennifer Gayford.

Beaded bracelet multiplication: Students complete a variety of estimation and multiplication activities to plan, create, and write directions for creating beaded bracelets.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics); By Dayle Payne.

Rainbow spelling: A kinesthetic approach to encoding: The following lesson requires the students to spell words containing learned phonemes using a visual and kinesthetic learning approach.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Wendy Parton.

Character education: What would you do?: This lesson is designed to teach character development, problem solving, and teamwork. It can also be used with exceptional students in a high school setting.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Guidance)

Math for multiple intelligences: In Math for multiple intelligences, page 1; How a middle-school math teacher realized she was boring and jump-started her career — and her students.; By Gretchen Buher.

The five senses: This lesson will help students describe how objects look, feel, taste, smell, and sound using all senses.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Science); By Kathy Gravitt.

Listening while you work: Using informal assessments to inform your instruction: In The First Year, page 2.2; Ongoing classroom assessment can be informal, but it provides invaluable information about what students are actually learning.; By Kristi Johnson Smith.

In math, "elegant" means "cool"!: An elegant solution to a math problem is one that requires less time and work. Encouraging students to find such solutions will help them build number sense or numeracy.; By Russ Rowlett.

Technological artifacts and the evolution of the student desk: In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.2; In this lesson, students discuss a variety of definitions for the word technology and the relationships between technology, science, and society.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science); By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.

Reading slave narratives: The WPA interviews: A reading guide for students working with WPA Federal Writers Project interviews with former slaves.; Format: article/learner's guide; By David Walbert.

Life cycle of painted lady butterflies: Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Anne Allen.

Computer literacy in the ESL classroom: An introduction to formatting: Word processing software is used to create and print documents. English as a second language middle school students (with an intermediate level of English proficiency) will be introduced to the advantages of word processing with emphasis on text formatting features in Microsoft Works. Both independent and group work is included in the activities.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills); By Milena Dolezel.

Parasailor landing on the beach at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: A woman parasailor floats in for a landing on the beach. The parachute is bright yellow with the word “Presidente.” A few beachgoers watch the woman approach the beach. Puerto Vallarta is a port town on Mexico’s west coast. It is a popular port...; Format: image/photograph

Camp Earth bound: Problem solving and finding for fun: Students will work together in small groups of four to six students to solve the following word problems. Their solutions will require them to practice interview techniques and create a database and/or spreadsheet of their results. This information will be the basis of the answers to the following eight word problems. Skills such as area, cost, calorie count, ratio, percentage and scale, as well as persuasive writing will be applied.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

One Grain of Rice: One Grain of Rice is a mathematical folktale from India that covers the concept of doubling.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Katherine Williamson.

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