Extractions: Teaching Heart's Learning Centers Page Below you will find pictures of centers, various links about centers, and printable centers that you may use in your classroom! Update June 18, 2005 How I have used centers in my classroom... I have three leveled reading groups. I run reading groups from 9:30 - 10:50. On the board I write the students jobs (things they are doing when they are not at reading group). The jobs look like this. Also, I have to note that they work on the jobs in order. After reading group they usually have an independent activity to complete. They must do that before they start back on jobs. That is not on their job list but they know that it takes first priority! Jobs 1. Math Box Page 35 (I teach Everyday Math and they have Math Boxes with each lesson - you could just have them complete a math sheet related to what you are working on in math) 2. Daily Printing (I use Draw Write Now (see below for more information on these books) - we are on book 8 at the moment. I write the paragraph on the board. They copy it in their best writing and then draw an illustration to match.)
Columbus Day, Thanksgiving--Holiday Anti-Racism Resources columbus day, Thanksgiving Unbiassing Social Studies RETHINKING columbus TEACHING ABOUT THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF columbus S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA, http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/adult/thanksgi.html
Extractions: In 1992, there was a great deal of hooraw and foofaw about the 500th anniversary of the start of the invasion of both continents of the western hemisphere, which has been crassly described as "discovery" ever since, by dominant society historians (and everyone except indigenous peoples and their survivors). During this Quincentennial period there was an outpouring of educational materials, mostly more of the same biassed and stereotyped history. This has now died down a bit. Columbus Day is not as big a school holiday as (in the U.S.) Thanksgiving. But the Quincentennial occasion also gave rise to some self-scrutiny, and some that was prompted by Native groups, activists, historians, and educators. From one of the best sources comes an explanation for teachers certainly in Native schools if any are doing conventional mainstream social studies, but primarily for educators of non-Indian students as to why (and how) to revise what they teach. This page will select from materials reviewed and present links-to reviews of books (and occasional AV materials) especially well-suited for incorporation into standard social studies, de-mystifying and de-mythologising what most U.S. children are still taught. It will also present relevant modern documents statements by Native groups or leaders. Below from one of the best sources is the philosophy of this page:
Farewell To Columbus Print these cards and place in a pocket chart prior to teaching the lesson.Who was Christopher columbus? Why do we celebrate columbus day? http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=50216
Columbus' Journey: How It Happened Memorial day (Veteran s day), columbus day (Great Explorer) and Flag day Teacher Preparation Prior to teaching the lesson, the teacher will need to http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=48363
Holidays & Special Themes A Feast of November Resources Education World presents teaching resources for columbus day/Discoverer s day. Surfing the Net with Kids columbus http://www.macomb.k12.mi.us/cc/Specials/Holidays.html
Extractions: Holidays and Special Themes We would like to remind you that these are teacher resource sites. Before you send your students to these or any other sites, we highly recommend that you visit it first. Also see News and Current Events General Labor Day Beginning of School ... Safety General: Education World: Holiday Center Archives Links to lesson plans, activities and resources Multi-Cultural Calendar Children from all over the world have submitted descriptions of holiday celebrations in their countries The Earth Calendar Lists holidays from around the world for every day of the year. Yahooligans: Holidays Around the World List of links to worldwide celebrations Holiday Lesson Plans TeacherLink has compiled a collection of holiday lesson plans for K-6th Grade students. Holidays Around the World This series of articles from World Book includes information about a variety of holidays. Return to top of page Beginning of School: First Day of School Activities Ideas submitted by classroom teachers It's That Time: 25 Great Reasons to Start Thinking About Going Back to School Education World has compiled "icebreaker activities, classroom management tips, quick activity ideas when you have five minutes to spare, and much more".
E. L. Easton - English - American Holidays Materials for Teaching and Learning English. What American tradition was created to celebrate columbus day? History Discoverers Web / Andre Engels http://eleaston.com/holidays.html
Columbus Curriculum Gets Native Voice July 05, 2004 The project is significant in Denver, Fulton said, because columbus day has organized recent columbus day parades, said he supports teaching a full http://www.coloradoaim.org/20040705columbuscurriculumdenverpost.htm
Extractions: Denver Post Staff Writer A group of educators is using a national model to create a Christopher Columbus curriculum that pulls Indians from the margins of history and looks critically at the idea of identity in historical events. Traditional lessons of Columbus reflect the identity of the Europeans on the ship with Columbus, said Stephanie Rossi, a Wheat Ridge High School history teacher. But there is also "the perspective from the shore," Rossi said. The Arawak and Taino Indians on what are present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic have a different story, she said. What hasn't been told, Rossi said, is how indigenous people were killed by Spaniards who traveled with Columbus or were enslaved, or how women were raped for payment.
Holidays Aug-Feb columbus day and Other Fall Activities A variety of activities here. The following sites contain teaching information on the two books to compare. http://www.teacherhelp.org/holidays.htm
Extractions: (Canada) August and September Back to School All back to school links and classroom management links Labor Day Labor Day Crafts Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day? Labor Day Kids Crossword Labor Day Kids Word Search ... Yahooligans! E-Cards for Labor Day Grandparent's Day Hand in Hand Activity Several neat suggestions for using the grandparent's and child's handprint Printable Grandparent's Day Book from Enchanted Learning
Happy Columbus Day Its columbus day! Hooray for the mighty European explorers of old. They discovered amazing new We need to start teaching people about Tolerance. http://www.msu.edu/~nixonjos/vent/columbus.html
Extractions: @import "../script-style/layout.css"; Happy Columbus (Note: This essay was inspired by an anti-Columbus protest group at Michigan State University.) happened Diversity , of course. plan on bringing syphilus to Europe. The transfer went both ways, as most cultural collisions tend to do. It is also informative to keep in mind that the mighty European explorers and missionaries of old were quite convinced that they were doing the right thing. It would have been morally negligent day Homo sapiens Just a thought. Back to The Vent
[Edu-sig] Teaching Python With The Calendar For example, columbus day is the Monday nearest to October 12th. Here s my code for that def getcolday(y) Get columbus day, return daynum http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2004-November/004093.html
Extractions: Sun Nov 14 11:50:53 CET 2004 Since starting with Python tutoring, I've already learned a lot. For example, I'm a new convert to this technique of programming around the Gregorian calendar (that's the familiar one, to us ISO-Latin types). It's a good mix of real world and abstraction, in that figuring the holidays is kinda messy (given the calendar is leap year and all that), yet coded solutions exist (most easily within the epoch I've not ventured outside it). For example, Columbus Day is the Monday nearest to October 12th. Here's my code for that: def getcolday(y): """ Get Columbus Day, return daynum Monday closest to Oct 12 """ i = j = 12 i -= 1 j += 1 closest = j else: closest = i return getdaynum(y, 10, closest)
[Edu-sig] Teaching Python With The Calendar For example, columbus day is the Monday nearest to October 12th. Here s my code for that def getcolday(y) Get columbus day, return daynum Monday http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2004-November/004092.html
Extractions: This volume can be used with Howard Zinn's classic text, A People's History of the United States, as well as with Zinn's collaboration with Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States, a collection of readings and documents that flesh out Zinn's original narrative. Olson-Raymer suggests discussion questions, essay topics, and other activities to help students engage with key themes in both books. Many of these can be used as-is with students, but they can also help teachers frame their U.S. history curriculum more intelligently. The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq The title of this book is drawn from Parenti's translator in Iraq: "Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom." Although this is not likely a book that could be used in full with students, there are sections that could be used in high school classes. For example, Chapter 8, on Abu Ghraib prison, is one of these sections, or parts of Chapter 5, "Meeting the Resistance." Definitely not G-rated fare, this is a book that can be excerpted to give students an alternative to the mostly uncritical with-our-troops reporting found in daily papers.
Rethinking Schools Online by Leslie Marmon Silko; Talking Back to columbus Teaching for Justice and Hope 115 by Bill Bigelow; columbus day 123 http://www.rethinkingschools.org/publication/columbus/columtoc2.shtml
Extractions: Search Rethinking Schools Help Home Publications Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years Table of Contents Rethinking Columbus is divided into eleven main sections. Click on the section heading to jump directly to that section below. Links lead to the full text of selected articles. Click here to go back to the Rethinking Columbus home page , or here to view the .pdf version of the RC Table of Contents Introduction Beginnings ... (back to top) Why Rethink Columbus?
Memorial Day Activities - Crafts For Kids, Word Searches And Fun Halloween activities for kids Halloween columbus day Activities for Kids Coloring pages, word search for columbus day columbus day http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/memorial-day/
Cinco De Mayo Activities - Crafts For Kids, Word Searches, And columbus day Activities for Kids Coloring pages, word search for columbus day columbus day Veterans day Activities for Kids - Coloring pages, http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/cinco-de-mayo/
Loudoun County Elementary Schools Licensed/Teacher positions require a valid teaching license and/or certification. Teaching Holidays include Independence day, Labor day, columbus day, http://www.loudoun.k12.va.us/jobs/
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Strategic Studies: E-News Volume 1, Issue 2 (October 1997) columbus day is celebrated on October 13. Since 1920 the day has been Consider the following two teaching methods in English Language Arts. Mr. Brown http://www.e-tutor.com/eNews/issue1097/
Extractions: http://www.e-tutor.com which will be available on the Internet soon. Thanks to your survey participation about the proposed national test plan of testing grade 4 students in reading and grade 8 students in mathematics. The survey results show 100% in favor of the national test plan 0% not in favor of the national test plan 0% with no opinion. Columbus Day is celebrated on October 13. Since 1920 the day has been celebrated annually. The history of Columbus, first landing in the New World on October 12, will be retold in many social studies classes in October The following is a brief account of its history. On August 3, 1492 Columbus and 90 men set sail to find an easier route to Asia for the spice merchants. The expedition was sponsored by Queen Isabella of Spain, provided that Columbus would conquer some of the islands and mainland for Spain. On October 12 the ships landed on the island of Guanahani (in the Caribbean Islands) which Columbus immediately christened San Salvador and claimed it for Spain. When they landed on what is now Cuba they thought it was Japan!
Lesson Plans Christmas, Cinco de Mayo, columbus day, day of the Dead, Halloween, Hanukkah, EDUCATION FOR FREEDOM Lesson Plans for Teaching the First Amendment. http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
Extractions: Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange Elementary School (K-5). 50 lesson plans for primary grade students. Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange Intermediate School (6-8). 80 lesson plans appropriate for grades 6-8. Academy Social Studies Curriculum Exchange High School (9-12). 95 lesson plans suitable for the high school level. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange Elementary School (K-5). 36 miscellaneous lesson plans for students in grades k-5. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange Intermediate School (6-8). 25 miscellaneous lesson plans for the middle school. Academy Miscellaneous Curriculum Exchange High School (9-12). 14 miscellaneous lesson plans for the 9-12 grades. Afghanistan:Land in Crisis. Afghanistan: Land in Crisis, presented by National Geograpic.Com., features news, background, online activities, teachers' guides, lesson plans, a regularly updated interactive map, photos, and a message board. Africa. Based on a PBS broadcast, the site includes: Africa for Kids where Fimi, a youngster from Nigeria serves as the guide to a variety of fun activities for elementary level students; Photoscope where older students can look at contemporary Africa in five photo essays; and Africa Challenge where students can show how much they know by playing a game. Also featured is Teacher Tools with four units on Africa.
FAS Information For Instructors 2003-2004 Derek Bok Center Teaching Orientation for teaching fellows and faculty members. University holiday columbus day. Last day upon which students from http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/handbooks/instructor.2003-2004/chapter1/fal
