Internet Scavenger Hunts for the Topics You Teach

Internet Scavenger Hunts for the Topics You Teach
Author: Karen Leiviska
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780439170345

This classroom-tested book uses the Internet as a valuable resource to enrich the topics you already teach. Your students will gather up-to-the-minute information and explore relevant questions to complete 10 fun, reproducible scavenger hunts. The topics include Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Body, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Nine Planets, the Rainforest, Volcanoes, Whales, and the White House. Great for boosting research skills and making the most of time spent on the Internet! For use with Grades 4-8.

Teach Uplifted

Teach Uplifted
Author: Linda Kardamis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2017-08-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692943137

Has teaching left you stressed, frustrated, or even discouraged? In Teach Uplifted you'll discover how to... Renew your passion for teaching by finding joy and peace in Christ Teach with joy even in difficult circumstances Banish anxiety and learn to trust God instead But be warned: This is not a collection of light, fluffy, feel-good stories. These powerful devotions will completely transform the way you view your life, your classroom, and your relationship with God.

First Year Teacher's Survival Guide

First Year Teacher's Survival Guide
Author: Julia G. Thompson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2009-05-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470493313

The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuable tips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becoming effective team players and connecting with students to handling behavior problems and working within diverse classrooms. The new edition is fully revised and updated to cover changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years. Updates to the second edition include: • New ways teachers can meet the professional development requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act • Entirely new section on helping struggling readers, to address the declining literacy rate among today’s students • Expanded coverage of helpful technology solutions for the classroom • Expanded information on teaching English Language Learners • Greater coverage of the issues/challenges facing elementary teachers • More emphasis on how to reach and teach students of poverty • Updated study techniques that have proven successful with at-risk students • Tips on working effectively within a non-traditional school year schedule • The latest strategies for using graphic organizers • More emphasis on setting goals to help students to succeed • More information on intervening with students who are capable but choose not to work • Updated information on teachers’ rights and responsibilities regarding discipline issues • Fully revised Resources appendix including the latest educational Web sites and software

Ditch That Textbook

Ditch That Textbook
Author: Matt Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781946444257

Textbooks are symbols of centuries-old education. They're often outdated as soon as they hit students' desks. Acting "by the textbook" implies compliance and a lack of creativity. It's time to ditch those textbooks--and those textbook assumptions about learning In Ditch That Textbook, teacher and blogger Matt Miller encourages educators to throw out meaningless, pedestrian teaching and learning practices. He empowers them to evolve and improve on old, standard, teaching methods. Ditch That Textbook is a support system, toolbox, and manifesto to help educators free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms.

Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets

Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets
Author: William Stein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387855254

This is a book about prime numbers, congruences, secret messages, and elliptic curves that you can read cover to cover. It grew out of undergr- uate courses that the author taught at Harvard, UC San Diego, and the University of Washington. The systematic study of number theory was initiated around 300B. C. when Euclid proved that there are in?nitely many prime numbers, and also cleverly deduced the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which asserts that every positive integer factors uniquely as a product of primes. Over a thousand years later (around 972A. D. ) Arab mathematicians formulated the congruent number problem that asks for a way to decide whether or not a given positive integer n is the area of a right triangle, all three of whose sides are rational numbers. Then another thousand years later (in 1976), Di?e and Hellman introduced the ?rst ever public-key cryptosystem, which enabled two people to communicate secretely over a public communications channel with no predetermined secret; this invention and the ones that followed it revolutionized the world of digital communication. In the 1980s and 1990s, elliptic curves revolutionized number theory, providing striking new insights into the congruent number problem, primality testing, publ- key cryptography, attacks on public-key systems, and playing a central role in Andrew Wiles’ resolution of Fermat’s Last Theorem.

Teacher Toolkit

Teacher Toolkit
Author: Ross Morrison McGill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472910869

'This is a book by a teacher still in the classroom after 20 years. Want to know how to survive? Read this book; it's fizzing with ideas.' Ty Goddard, Co-founder of the Education Foundation A compendium of teaching strategies, ideas and advice, which aims to motivate, comfort, amuse and above all reduce your workload, by bestselling author Ross Morrison McGill, aka @TeacherToolkit. Teacher Toolkit is a must-read for newly qualified and early career teachers and will support you through your first five years in the primary or secondary classroom. It is packed with advice, tips and ideas for all aspects of teaching practice, from lesson planning to marking and assessment, behaviour management and differentiation. Ross believes that becoming a teacher is one of the best decisions you will ever make, but after more than two decades in the classroom, he knows that it is not an easy journey! He shares countless anecdotes from his own experience, from disastrous observations to marking in the broom cupboard, and offers a wealth of strategies to help you become a true Vitruvian teacher: one who is resilient, intelligent, innovative, collaborative and aspirational. Complete with a bespoke Five Minute Plan in every chapter, photocopiable templates, QR codes, a detachable bookmark and beautiful illustrations by renowned artist Polly Nor, Teacher Toolkit is everything you need to ensure you are the best teacher you can be, whatever the new policy or framework. Ross is the bestselling author of Mark. Plan. Teach., Just Great Teaching and 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons. Vitruvian teaching will help you survive your first five years: Year 1: Be resilient (surviving your NQT year) Year 2: Be intelligent (refining your teaching) Year 3: Be innovative (taking risks) Year 4: Be collaborative (working with others) Year 5: Be aspirational (moving towards middle leadership) Start working towards Vitruvian today.

Quick Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: SPACE

Quick Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: SPACE
Author: Mary Kay Carson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439244411

Build students Internet skills as they expand their knowledge of stars, moons, planets, space exploration, and more. This book offers more than 100 space Web sites, plus reproducible graphic organizers that help students record the information they gather. Using this information, students build a star life-cycle mobile, write their own myth about a constellation, create travel brochures of the planets, complete a timeline of historic space events, and more! For use with Grades 3-6."

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom
Author: Jackie Glasthal
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439278584

Twenty fun, Web based activities are accompanied by reproducible graphic organizers that enable kids to learn the very latest information on their own. Focusing on the U.S. government, activities include making a mobile showing the power of balance between branches of government, creating a personal "contacts" list of elected officials, and more. Illustrations.