Next Week's Lesson Plans 8/16/14

Already for school, Lesson Plans and teacher haute couture.

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Current Events

Helping Students Make Sense Of A Young Black Man's Death In Missouri

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/15/340394980/helping-students-make-sense-of-a-young-black-mans-death-in-missouri?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social 

'They're Talking To People': Tensions Ease In Ferguson As Police Change Tactics

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/15/340585038/theyre-talking-to-people-tensions-ease-in-ferguson-as-police-change-tactics 

How Social Media Helped Spread Protest In Michael Brown Shooting

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/16/340857860/how-social-media-helped-spread-protest-in-michael-brown-shooting 

 Education Didn't Save Mike Brown 
http://www.teachforamerica.org/blog/education-didnt-save-mike-brown-2 

Let Me Think About That 

Hmmm...

Why Is It So Hard to Change How We Teach Math?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/why-is-it-so-hard-to-change-how-we-teach-math/ 

4 Ways Technology is Changing How People Learn

http://www.edudemic.com/technology-is-changing-how-people-learn/ 

Transforming Education Starts In Your Classroom

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/transforming-education-priority-in-your-classroom/ 

Maybe An Activity the Kids Will Like

Engaging Classroom Games for All Grades 

http://www.teachhub.com/engaging-classroom-games-all-grades 

Arts Across the Curriculum

Integrate Music and Visual Arts with Social Studies, Math & Science

http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/Arts-Across-the-Curriculum.html

Lauren Steele, high school student. Poetry Slam.

Welcome to Poetry Slam, Inc.
https://www.poetryslam.com/ 

Holding a poetry slam

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/655 

 

Gotta Keep Organized

100 Classroom Organizing Tricks

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/100-classroom-organizing-tricks 

Introducing Google Classroom 

http://www.google.com/edu/classroom/ 

Edmodo, Where Learning Happens

https://www.edmodo.com/ 

Plan for fun--a relaxed moment of humor, art, physical activity, student presentations of music or poetry--gives the brain a moment to assimilate the cognitive studies. For teacher, too. 

 

Teaching Is Having Fun Learning http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/02/teaching-is-having-fun-learning.html