Students type several sentences in MS Word. Use the font color palette to label parts of speech, i.e., blue for subject, red for verb. Use sentences from a book they’re reading in class, spelling words they’re working on, or a
teacher hand-out. This makes grammar fun. Click for lesson plan |
I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I'm going
to take time this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I've found, are well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, offering inclusive solutions to the issue of tech tools--taking into account the perspectives of stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to ensure learning is organic
and granular. Today: Lesson Plans Fractions are not the easiest of math concepts to learn (or teach), yet are arguably one of the most oft applied to our daily lives. Teachers have long sought intuitive methods to teach fractions that are less frustrating than worksheets and more effective than rote drills. Luckily,
there are a lot of online apps on offer that are accessible to students and make learning much easier than traditional methods. The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has eight of their favorites to share today: Click for more |
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