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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Day 7 of Lent: Giving Up Comparison
I have my own unique contribution to make. There is no one else like me.
If We Treated Star Teachers Like We Treat Star Athletes
“What if we treated star teachers like we treated star athletes?” This video from Buzzfeed covers press conferences, financial endorsements, big contracts, forgiving failure, and more!
Link: http://www.teachthought.com/interest/if-we-treated-teachers-like-football-stars/
Link: http://www.teachthought.com/interest/if-we-treated-teachers-like-football-stars/
CSI Math (Middle School)
Students must analyze five pieces of evidence to eliminate nine of ten suspects. Ideal as an end of topic activity; students need to perform operations with fractions; ratios and decimals and also interpret their results in a different context.
Link: http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Number-CSI-Solve-the-and-quot-Crime-and-quot-6120824/
STEM Sites, Part 3
Michael Gorman has posted Part III of his STEM series of science sites on 2 sites. See 3 of them with Gorman's descriptions below. For more of his site suggestions, click the link:
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Teachers Try Science
"Provides teachers free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The site also features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices. Access lesson plans that allow students to create water filters, design earthquake-proof structures, explore vertical farms, and much more."
Writing about Science
"Discover this amazing UDL tool from the people at CAST. It supports students in writing lab and class reports. This tool is geared toward middle school and high school students. Science Writer enables students to demonstrate their knowledge of science concepts through writing, structures the writing processes as it relates to content-area writing, structures the thought process required for scientific writing, provides opportunities for structured practice and utilizes the Universal Design for Learning ."
Leaf Snap
"This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs you take of their leaves. It contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. The collection currently includes trees of the Northeast and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States."
Link: http://leafsnap.com/
Finding and Preventing Plagiarism
Thanks to the internet, plagiarism has become prolific in the past ten years. Edudemic has updated an earlier published article on how to identify and prevent plagiarism in the classroom.
Link: http://www.edudemic.com/fight-plagiarism-in-your-classroom/
Link to information about Plagiarism Checkers: http://www.edudemic.com/the-5-best-plagiarism-detection-tools-for-educators/