Orthodox Good Friday

Today is Orthodox Good Friday.  I will see you on Monday.

Fog, lasers turn math class into "escape room"

 

Here is an article and short video about a math teacher using escape room with some bells and whistles to make an interesting math classroom.  This might be a really good idea for a review exercise.  To see the article click here.  For some more ideas on escape rooms click here.

Project Based Learning in Math

 

Larry Ferlazzo wrote an article entitled "Don’t ‘Make the Math Classroom a Project-Based-Learning-Free Zone".  If you teach math you might want to spare 9 minutes to read this article.  Click here to read it.

The Newest Americans

This Webby Award Nominee was pointed out by Larry Ferlazzo. I know it is not Canadian but it has stories about new immigrants to the US and I am sure will still work with ESL students in Canada.  To see the site click here.

 

Verse by Verse

 

I just tried out Verse by Verse by an AI site by Google.  Select 3 famous poets and type out your first line of your poem and then V by V will select three lines of poetry by each poet for you to pick what you want for the second line etc.  Click here to see the site.  Here is my poem below.

PD Day

Enjoy the long weekend KCI students. 

Mapquiz

 

This is a neat geography guessing game.  You are presented with a map location and you have to guess the country out of four picks.  After you guess it will show you the correct answer and some information about the country.  Note in the top right hand corner you can point the map so north is at the top of the page.  You can also zoom in or out.  It was 8 for 8 until I got nailed on Tajikistan.  I guessed Kazakhstan.  Sorry Borat.  To play the game click here.  Tomorrow is a PD day so have a great long weekend KCI students.

Bibcitation Chrome extension

 

Previously I have posted about citation using bibcitation and other various websites..  To see that click here.  Just thought I would let you know that you can now have Bibcitation as Chrome extension.  To get it go here.

Bridging the divide between creative writing and literary analysis

 

Thomas Newkirk wrote in his blog an interesting article in which to engage your English writers.  To read the article click here.

More Teaching Advice

 

Here is some more advice for newer teachers.  Click here to see it.  I like this one as a librarian, "In college I was told: Be friends with the secretary, custodians, and librarians." 

Enjoy Your April Break

 Enjoy your April Break and we will be back on April 19th.

Teaching Physics

 

If you don't have a physics degree but might end up teaching Physics you might want to read this article in edutopia by clicking here.

Instructables Hands-on Projects

 

According to their website, "Instructables is committed to helping teachers inspire, engage, and prepare students through hands-on projects to make in the classroom. Always free, and always fun, come explore projects for your next classroom lesson!".  The have many contests/projects running at this time which you can find by clicking here.  Teachers may also want to look here for ideas for the classroom.  As of the time that I am writing this there are only two entries in both these contests and 9 and 20 prizes respectively in each contest.

Enjoy a Long Weekend

 Have a great long weekend and I will be back on Tuesday.  Here is a pic of my kids a long time ago.

Swiss Spaghetti

This could be used in your foods classroom.  For younger students and newer teachers, I thought you might want to know were spaghetti comes from.

If you would like more information about growing your own spaghetti click here.