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Education World Weekly Newsletter ------------------------------------------------ Volume 6, Issue 21 May 21, 2002 ********************************************** Dear Education Professionals, Welcome to What's New This Week at Education World, published weekly as a free service by Education World(R). You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up to receive updates of What's New at Education World. If you enjoy this newsletter, please feel free to forward it to other teachers. If this newsletter has been forwarded to you, you may sign up at www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml. ********************************************** Education World's newsletter is brought to you by Science Kit Make Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories your Home Page for Science! In business for over 50 years, today Science Kit is the leading provider of science supplies and equipment to K-12 educators and schools throughout the United States. 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The Mailbox ideas and activities are... * Based on your curriculum and national standards * Introduce and reinforce basic skills * Easy to use and grade specific * Reliable, with clear and complete instructions * Timesavers -- require little preparation, can be used almost immediately With The Mailbox magazine you'll never run out of great ideas and activities for your classroom! Click the following link (or copy and paste the link into your browser window) to subscribe to The Mailbox today: http://www.educationworld.com/go/base?id=EMX ********************************************** LATEST ARTICLES ********************************************** ---------------------------------------------------- LESSON PLANNING ---------------------------------------------------- Fitness Fun: Fitness Fun Times Five http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson266.shtml Celebrate Physical Fitness Month with five new lessons that combine fitness fun with other subjects. Included: A sponge relay, baseball Frisbee, bowling math, more! Teacher-Submitted Lesson: Biographical Poems http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/02-1/lesson021.shtml Monique Arnold, who teaches in the Bremond (Texas) Independent School District, submitted this week's lesson. Students compare themselves (their skills, their strengths, their dreams) with people who figure prominently in history. Scavenger Hunt: Memorial Day History http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/hunt/hunt036.shtml What do your students know about Memorial Day? ---------------------------------------------------- CURRICULUM NOW! ----------------------------------------------------- Music to Our Ears http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr404.shtml In the past, because written music requires basic music literacy, the songs that children created on the spur of the moment were difficult to record, replicate, or edit. Technology has solved that problem by providing a number of inexpensive ways in which children can write and record their own music. Discover how fifth graders at California's Village School composed original rondos and created their own CD. Wire Side Chat: News from the Front: Women Reporters of World War II http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr405.shtml "I hope girls and boys will be in awe of the women correspondents' courage, determination, and resourcefulness, just as I was. I hope girls and boys will understand why correspondents risk their lives to report from where the action was -- and is today." -- Penny Colman, author of Where the Action Was: Woman War Correspondents in World War II Mentor Notebook: Movies, Motivation, and Missing Assignments http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr366s2.shtml.shtml Kim ended her last entry by saying that she is not going to compromise her standards by allowing students to earn good grades without learning much. I hope she never does. The challenge I want her to take to her new job is to learn what motivates those kids who aren't motivated by grades and to build that into her classes as well. Web Wizard: Prospecting Online for Educational Gold http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/webwizard035.shtml Linda Brandon shares the wealth with golden nuggets from the Internet! ---------------------------------------------------- TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM ---------------------------------------------------- Educators Review TimeLiner 5.0 http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech131.shtml TimeLiner by Tom Snyder Productions allows students in grades K-12 to create timelines by simply entering events and dates. The program includes a large library of historical images and other clip art, and allows users to import additional images from the Web. Students can also add movies and sounds to create multimedia timelines. Completed timelines can be printed, posted to the Web, or presented in slide shows. WebQuest Discovery of the Week: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/webquest007.shtml Learn how to shape up! --------------------------------------------------- SCHOOL ISSUES ---------------------------------------------------- Art of Learning: Report Links Arts Instruction to Academic Achievement http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues317.shtml Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Social and Academic Development, a report released May 16, is a collection of studies illustrating how skills learned through instruction in the arts affect children's academic and personal development. Voice of Experience: Candy Conflict: Rules, Nutrition, and Money Clash http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues316.shtml Why are student clubs allowed to sell candy during lunch period? Funny thing -- selling candy creates potential conflicts with school rules! Not so funny because teachers have to deal with sugar highs and sugar lows. "Can the candy!" says teacher Kathleen Modenbach! EDscoops: May 16 http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/edscoop036.shtml Study: NYC Kids Traumatized by Sept. 11 AIDS Devastating African Teacher Ranks Edison Facing Cash Crunch 'Smart Lockers' Track Students Starr Points: Girls and Boys Together? http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/issues315.shtml Boys and girls are inherently different. They learn in different ways and they mature at different rates. They have different interests and strengths and they respond to stimuli in different ways. When it comes to educating boys and girls in middle and high school, equity is certainly essential -- but separate makes the most sense. School Doodle: Zero Tolerance http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/school_doodles/sd35_zerothought_r3_46 0w.gif ---------------------------------------------------- ADMINISTRATOR'S DESK ---------------------------------------------------- Project Promise Delivers http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin270.shtml In 14 years, the alternative certification program at Colorado State University, Project Promise, has produced 150 teachers; about 80 percent of them have remained in education. The ten-month intensive program includes student teaching stints in urban and rural schools and lots of group discussion. Principal Profiles: James Thompson http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/principal034.shtml Meet James Thompson, principal at Wolcott Street School, a K-5 school in LeRoy, New York (the birthplace of JELL-O!). ---------------------------------------------------- SITE REVIEWS ---------------------------------------------------- Biology Online http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2002/r0502-13.shtml Everything biology. ESL Magazine Online http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2002/r0502-14.shtml Resource for ESL/EFL teachers. The Circle of Life WebQuest http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2002/r0502-15.shtml WebQuest that studies marine mammals and enhances information literacy. Creating Music http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2002/r0502-16.shtml Fun and easy music making. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2002/r0502-17.shtml Modern and contemporary art tour. ********************************************** Sincerely, Lisa Gryskiewicz =================================== Education World (R) http://www.educationworld.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================== ******************************************* For digest instead of individual postings, send the message: set k12newsletters digest to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] K12 Newsletters mailing list is a service of Classroom Connect - http://www.classroom.com Archives for K12 Newsletters can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=K12NEWSLETTERS **********************************************************
