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============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips for Teachers Issue #226 The Web Portal for Educators! We are up to 104,712 readers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This news*letter is only sent to the friends of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. Tell them that they can get it at: http://teachertipnewsletter.com/ ============================================================= **In this Issue** -K-12 Teacher Tools: We Have All That You'll Need!- 1. Quote of the Week 2. Jokes You Can Tell in Class 3. Eworkbook of the Week 4. Makeworksheets.com Printable Activity Of The Week 5. ExamBuddy.com On-line Activity Of The Week 6. Downloads of the Week 7. Lesson Plan of the Week 8. The Latest From Our Message Board 9. The On-line Teacher Poll of the Week 10. Results Of Last Week's Teacher Poll 11. Our Latest "Teaching Idea that Worked!" 12. This Week in History 13. Best on the Web for Teachers 14. Subject Matter Site of the Week 15. Teaching Theme of the Week 16. Teachnology Cool Tool of the Week ============================================================= -K-12 Teacher Tools: We Have All That You'll Need!- Our teacher tools creates a variety of teacher resources including: -Lesson Plans -Instant Teacher Rubrics (Over 180 Criteria Instantly) -Preformatted Rubrics (Over 20 Varieties) -Puzzles (10 varieties) -Graphic Organizers (20 Varieties) -Language Arts Worksheet Makers (10 Varieties) -Math Worksheet Makers (50 Varieties, 300 problem types) -On-Demand Print,Save,and Share Functions. -Timelines, Certificates, Patterns & Class Newsletters! -Accessible World-wide Anytime! -Save Your Files On-line & View Them On-line Or At Home. Teachers: Make your life easier, right away! What do other teachers' think?: "The best teacher resource package ever! It saves me tons of time and actually makes me a better teacher. I create dozens of rubrics every week. Before this, I didn't even know what a rubric was. Thanks for all that you do. Everyone in my building is very appreciative." - Lindsay L. Visit: http://www.makeworksheets.com ============================================================= 1. Quote of the week- "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." ~Alec Bourne~ ============================================================= 2. Jokes You Can Tell in Class- *Sports Illustrated * The coach's wife yells to her husband, "It's Sports Illustrated on the phone!" The coach falls all over himself racing to the phone and says, "Hello?" Then he hears, "For just 75 cents an issue...." ============================================================= Want To See More Jokes?? View Our Jokes Page http://search.teach-nology.com/jokes/hints.pl ============================================================= 3. Electronic Workbook of the Week Reading Comprehension: Beginning Level, Volume 2 - Animals Contains 29 reading passages on various wild life. Engages beginning readers with fun and educational activities, while exploring new and wondrous creatures. Reading passages include: Alligators, Bats, Bears, Beavers, Camels, Cheetahs, Cows, Dolphins, Ducks, Elephants, Foxes, Frogs, Giraffes, Hedgehogs, Hippopotamus, Horses, Kangaroos, Lions, Mice, Monkeys, Penguins, Platypus, Raccoons, Sheep, Skunks, Tigers, Turtles, Wolves, Zebras. Visit This Site: http://www.teacherworkbooks.com/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=16154 ============================================================= Note: This workbook is free to all Gold Members. Gold members can find this workbook by logging in at: http://www.getworksheets.com You can search for the title. Our Gold Membership allows members to download thousands of valuable resources including: activities, worksheets, PowerPoint® templates, Excel® templates, Word® templates, web graphic sets, music loops, and sound effects. A message from a current member: "I am so glad I found this gold membership. I cannot thank you enough for putting together such a wonderful program. It costs less than one resource book I use, yet it has the value of a hundred resource books."- Sally W. Gold members, to download this workbook instantly, navigate to http://www.getworksheets.com ============================================================= 4. Makeworksheets.com Printable Activity of the Week *Smile Graphic Organizer* This graphic organizer is just a sample of what our Graphic Organizer Maker can do for you. You simply add your choice of text and click create. All graphic organizers are created in .pdf format for great print quality. Platinum members will find this application under our Graphic Organizer Maker section. This printable is available at this page http://www.makeworksheets.com/activityofweek/ ============================================================= Note: All activities of the week are created using our platinum site. Our Platinum tools allows members to make, edit, and save custom puzzle, awards, timelines, mazes, decoders, patterns, math worksheets, rubrics, lesson plans, graphic organizers, and language arts worksheets. Now you can create time lines, awards, patterns, newsletters, 50 customizable basic math worksheets, 16 types of fraction worksheets, new missing digit math worksheets, graph paper, equation makers, mazes, and secret decoder pages. A message from a current teacher: "You guys obviously put a great deal into this and it shows. This is just excellent! Thanks Again."- Veronica H. To learn more about our platinum tools, navigate to http://www.makeworksheets.com ============================================================= 5. Silver On-line Activity Of The Week *Constitution Flash Cards- file name: Constitutionflash* This is a simple example of ExamBuddy's ability to make custom on-line flash cards. No need to waste paper these days. Exambuddy creates the activity for you, you just choose the words and their matching clues. Anyone can do it. See the flash cards now: http://www.exambuddy.com/teachers/sample/myclass/ See what else ExamBuddy can do for you: http://www.exambuddy.com/explore/ ============================================================= ExamBuddy- http://www.exambuddy.com/ ============================================================= Note: All on-line activities of the week are created using our Silver site. Our Silver membership allows members to create: 30+ online learning activities, learning games, online quizzes, online calendars, printable tests, math games, class web pages, electronic newsletters, learning units, language arts games, class surveys. Student progress can be monitored through the automatic item analysis feature that can be used with on-line quizzes and surveys. Development is effortless; just add words and clues. All the activities featured above can be found in the ExamBuddy directory. Members can easily add them to their accounts for their own use. A message from a current member: Nancy Newhouse, 3rd Grade Teacher- "Thank you for creating an outstanding suite of tools for teachers, like me. Finally, somebody gets it! We (teachers) need everything in one simple package that does everything we need it to do. My students and parents thank you most of all!" To learn more about our ExamBuddy program, navigate to: http://www.exambuddy.com ============================================================= 6. Download of the Week- PC Download: *Reading Comprehension Booster* "Reading Comprehension Booster helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills. Students work with exercises to determine main idea, make inferences and draw conclusions. Assessments place students in appropriate units of instruction. Students advance as they demonstrate readiness. Student scores are kept in a management system that allows teachers and tutors to view and print reports. Designed for ages eight and up." ============================================================= Mac Download: *Grammarian Pro X* "Grammarian Pro X is a universal, interactive grammar checking, spelling checking, dictionary, autocorrect, and autotype tool that works with virtually every program on your computer. Grammarian Pro X works interactively or in batch correction mode and automatically starts working in your applications to correct spelling, grammar, phrase usage, and punctuation. Use the built-in dictionary assistant to look up definitions and verify the correct choice of words. AutoCorrection corrects many spelling mistakes automatically as you type." ============================================================= To Download These Applications & Others Visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/ ============================================================= 7. Lesson Plan of the Week- Paper Bag Book Reports "After selecting and reading a book independently, students will create a paper bag book report using an ordinary paper bag." Find it here: http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Reading/RDG0011.html ============================================================= To View 27,300+ Lesson Plans, Ideas, and Worksheets Visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/ ============================================================= 8. The Latest From Our Message Board- http://www.teach-nology.com/forum/ ************************************************************* Web Quests: Can anyone please tell me how to design a webquest?? I am so confused. ************************************************************* Voice Your Thoughts On This Topic: If you have a response for this question, please view the web address below to post your thoughts on the topic: http://www.teach-nology.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145 ============================================================= 9. The On-line Teacher Poll of the Week This is a new weekly on-line poll. Results of this poll will be published in next week's newsletter. Cast your vote now! This week's poll: Do you use class jobs in your classroom? -Yes -No To cast your vote, visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/poll/thisweekpoll.php Make sure to refresh your browser if you voted in last week's poll. ============================================================= 10. *Results Of Last Week's Teacher Poll* The poll question was: Does the use of graphing calculators in the classroom strengthen student understanding? Results: Total Votes: 103 57.3%- Yes 42.7%- No, it dilutes the concept. ============================================================= Our Teacher Poll Archive Is Available Here: http://www.teach-nology.com/poll/ ============================================================= 11. "Our Latest Idea that Worked!" "Reading Across New York" By: Jackie Seiars, NYC Teacher "I created a great interdisciplinary incentive system that reinforces reading for my students. One of the main topics of my Social Studies curriculum is New York State geography and landmarks. I have a detailed map of New York State in my room with a colored thumbtack for every student. Every week, the thumbtacks take a trip to location or landmark within New York State. A student's thumbtack is advanced a set distance for every page they read during reading time. This has really motivated students. Along the way to the final destination, the students will have several stops. These include major towns/cities or landmarks. When a student reaches this location, they receive a simple reward. The rewards range from extra free time to a snack. When they reach their final destination we provide them with larger rewards. Students really seem to enjoy this system and they're learning a lot more about their State. This system is simple and can be adapted to any state, province, and/or country." ============================================================= What Worked for You? PLEASE Take a minute to tell us! Be Heard! Your ideas will appear on our site. Visit: http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/tell_us/ ============================================================= See our complete teaching ideas archive, view http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/ ============================================================= 12. This Week in History- 1895 - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper 1916 - San Diego Zoo founded 1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres 1956 - 1st atomic power clock exhibited- NYC ============================================================== **Keep Up with What Happened in History** See What Happened Today In History: http://search.teach-nology.com/today/today2.pl ============================================================== 13. Best on the Web for Teachers- Featured Sites of the Week: Back to School Crafts- http://home.att.net/~dleddy/school.html Math Playground- http://www.mathplayground.com ============================================================== To see more of the best of the web for teachers, please visit this site: http://teachers.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/bestof/topsites.cgi?teachnology ============================================================== 14. Subject Matter Site of the Week- This Week's Subject Matter: Encouraging Reading http://www.proliteracy.org/ ============================================================== 15. Teaching Theme of the Week- This Week's Theme: Encouraging Reading A ton of resources on the topic of the week. http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/lang_arts/reading/ ============================================================== 16. Teachnology Cool Tool of the Week- BINGO Card Generator: Bingo cards can be used for just about any content area to reinforce definitions, new vocabulary, math problems, even long thought out questions. Available Here: http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/ ============================================================== Teachnology, Inc. makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, about the truth or accuracy of the content of the TeAch-nology.com newsletter. ============================================================= © 2004 Teachnology, Inc. All rights reserved ============================================================= ATTENTION: You are receiving these teacher tips because you have signed up for it. Log on to: http://teachertipnewsletter.com to change your status. We value every subscriber and respect your privacy.
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