Category Archives: Ideas
How do I engage students?
I stumbled across a great blog post today from Amanda Dykes in Alabama; “The Upside Down Education Blog”, and she had a simple recipe for cutting the lecture and engaging students:
“The thing is, I DO NOT lecture too much during that time! I try to reach all learners. I do all the below focused on […] Continue reading
7th and 8th grade Disease Commercials
The 7th and 8th grade Health class students worked in small groups to create a 30 second commercial dealing with preventable diseases. The students were assigned groups, brainstormed ideas for their commercial, researched the information, and put it … Continue reading
Kindergarten Community Helpers
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Watch as the kids show what they know. They did a fabulous job!
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Fifth grade review games
The fifth graders used Quia to create games they can use for review. They created their own questions, picked a game template, and added their information. They had a LOT of fun coming up with their games, and did a great job reviewing each others games for things they would need to edit.
Review games can […] Continue reading
Show Me the Money…in Kindergarten
The kindergarten students at Longan reviewed what they knew about by visiting a few websites. The students used two websites that were created using Keynote that were exported as .swf files and posted on the web (so they acted like a website), and another site that helped them with adding coins to total a specific […] Continue reading
Flying Squirrels Logo
Want a twist to your review of the Regions of Virginia for Virginia Studies? The Flying Squirrels mascot, Nutzy was designed in the shape of the State. By using the graphic Inspector in Pages, and changing the opacity of Nutzy, you can see the basic outline of the state and the R on his chest […] Continue reading
5 Regions of Virginia Keynote
The fifth graders in Ms. Hubard’s social studies classes used Keynote to tell us about what they knew about the five regions of Virginia. They created two slides for each region and told us about the region and the products and industries found in the region. They created their presentation from scratch and learned how […] Continue reading
Longan Egyptian Keynotes
The second graders at Longan used Keynote to present information that they knew about Ancient Egypt. The Keynote was set up so that when they finished adding their information, the presentation would be complete with transitions and builds already set up. The students can use the presentation for review when testing time comes. They loved […] Continue reading
Earth Day – Recycle Podcast
Please have your students watch this fabulous podcast from the Virginia Trekkers on how things are recycled. It is fabulous!!!! Click on picture to go to website.
Using Zimmer Twins to make movies
One wonderful thing about collaborating with other educators around the world is the great ideas you get from each other. Kelly Tenkely’s wonderful blog introduced me to the site called The Zimmer Twins. I used the site with Mrs. Birckhead’s Exceptional Education class (upper elementary). They were discussing hygiene while learning to write sequential steps […] Continue reading
