From: Education World Lessons Newsletter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Teacher Lesson Plans Vol. 4 Issue 30
Education World Lessons Newsletter --------------------------------------------------- Volume 4, Issue 30 July 24, 2002 ********************************************** Dear Education Professionals, Welcome to the Teacher Lesson Plans Newsletter, published weekly as a free service by Education World(R)! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up to receive summaries of lesson plans that have been recently published 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 http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml ********************************************** LESSON PLANS ********************************************** THIS WEEK'S NEW LESSON PLANNING ARTICLE This week is the last of our "Summer Treats" issues; in this issue, we highlight three more of our best archived lessons. Next week Education World presents the first of our 2002 back-to-school issues. Watch for all new content, including two brand new Icebreaker articles! 1. A Month With No Holidays? Make Up Your Own! http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson018.shtml Boring August! No holidays! Why not invite your students to think about a special holiday that they'd like to see celebrated once a year -- in August! Click on the link above to see this complete lesson! 2. Rock or Feather: A Critical-Thinking Activity http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson145.shtml A simple activity can reveal much about the students you work with each day. Students make and defend their choices in this activity, called Rock or Feather? Included: Comments from teachers who've used the activity -- and a printable activity sheet! 3. Don't Waste a Minute! http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson168.shtml What do you do with those awkward moments that arise in every teacher's day, those times between classes or before specials, when there's no time for a new lesson but plenty of time for kids to act up? Try some mini lessons, quick activities that fill time without wasting it! Included: Dozens of mini lessons to keep kids busy -- and learning -- every minute of the day! Following is a sampling of four of the lessons from this article: Problem Solving. Display a number of items, such as a rope, an over-sized pencil, an eyelash curler, a CD, a newspaper advertisement, a straw, and so on. Explain to students that they are archaeologists investigating a lost city. Ask them to describe the lives of the people who might have used the items. Encourage them to consider unusual uses for the common items. Language Arts. Ask each student to write a definition of friend on a strip of paper. Glue the papers together to form a friendship chain. History. Assign each student an important event in history and ask students to form a human timeline. Language Arts. Provide students with the first part of a well-known maxim, such as "An apple a day..." or "The early bird..." and have them take turns providing new endings. See many more quick-activities for those spare moments by clicking the link above! REMEMBER!! We're back next week with all new lessons for Back to School - including two brand new volumes of Icebreaker activities for the first days of school! ********************************************** 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 **********************************************************
