May 2001 Newsletter
A FREE newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author
Marjan Glavac. http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
May Day May 1
Constitution Memorial Day (Japan) May 3
People's Day (Japan) May 4
Children's Day (Japan) May 5
National Teachers Day May 8
Mother's Day May 13
Armed Forces Day May 19
Victoria Day (Canada) May 21
Memorial Day May 30 (observed on May 28)
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Mr. Marjan Glavac author "The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide
Web" Completely Revised and Updated 2ND Edition
LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-1-7 200 pages
speaker, teacher, author marjan@glavac.com
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In This Issue:
*CLASSROOM TEACHER'S EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS
*FREE OFFERS
*THE DIRT ON SOIL: WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON UNDER THE
GROUND
*HICKSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL PIANO LAB
*KARS PUBLIC SCHOOL
*4KIDSSITES.COM
*GINNY'S EDUCATIONAL WEBPAGES
*LINK TO LEARNING.COM
*TO LEARN ENGLISH.COM
*MUSICAL SPANISH
*EDHELPER.COM
*MRS. SANDY KEEN'S 3RD GRADE HOMEPAGE
*PAM ELLIOTT'S 2ND GRADE CLASSROOM
*BIOLOGY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
*BUSY EDUCATOR'S AWARD
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CLASSROOM TEACHER'S EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS
John Philips
jjohnny@csolve.net
ISBN 0-9686403-0-3
These emergency lesson plans come from John Philips new book "Jivin
Johnny's Classroom Teacher's Emergency Lesson Plans for elementary
and high schools." The book contains over 90 student centered lessons
and projects to help you survive--while your students learn!
MAPMAKING
Draw a map of your school.
(If your school has 2 stories, draw 2 maps.)
Label everything you know, including all 'landmarks.'
Draw a map of your neighborhood, or a park ,or a mall, or a section of
downtown or your house or apartment.
Label everything you know.
Draw a map for a short story or novel you have read.
Label everything.
TEACHER: terms to introduce: bird's eye view, 2 dimensional,
landmarks, scale.
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FREE OFFERS
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>From time to time, I come across a number of free offers. This site
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catalogs to software, videos and books. Below are some that I've found
that may be of interest to educators. As with any "free" offer, read the
fine print :-)
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This site contains close to 200 quality e-mail newsletters that you can
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THE DIRT ON SOIL: WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON UNDER THE
GROUND
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/soil/index.html
We know less about life in the earth under our feet than we do about the
far side of the moon. Yet every plant and animal you can think of depends
on this vast hidden ecosystem. Explore this hidden world in this new
learning adventure. Dig into soil horizons, come face to face with bizarre
creatures, and take a virtual journey underground in search of a mysterious
soil organism. (Middle school to adult)
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HICKSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL PIANO LAB
http://www.myschoolonline.com/ny/pianolab
The Hicksville Middle School Piano Lab is one of the largest piano labs in
the Northeast with 24 Yamaha clavinova electric pianos. On this site you
can sing along with a Web opera, go to Carnegie Hall and the Grand Ole
Oprey or learn about anything from kabuki Theatre to Theory and the
Great Composers. There are thousands of piano midis and tours of the
worlds great cultural museums and concert halls....truly something for
everyone.
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KARS PUBLIC SCHOOL
http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/karsweb/
Kars Public School website designed by grade 4 and 5 students was the
winner of the Young Entrepreneur Showcase and has received grants
through the Canadian governement program Grassroots.
The website offers information about programs, staff, school, code of
behaviour, newsletter, sports programs, extra curricular activities,
samples of student writing, art work, an i-movie presentation (Nortel
Young Entrepreneur-people's choice award), an interactive science game
(Nortel Young Entrepreneur 1st place winner), and robotics. The website
also offers students the opportunity to use the browser to access safe
internet sites for project research. Incorporated are also links for parents.
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4KIDSSITES.COM
www.4kidssites.com
4 Kids Sites is a filtered portal, with age defined areas for children's
interaction with the Internet, educator tutorials, basic lesson planning ideas,
and links to resources for educators. Also included here are a parents page,
shopping area, international lookup, access to over 200,000 files in 40
languages all filtered and TwoToads filtered software for children's email.
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GINNY'S EDUCATIONAL WEBPAGES
http://www.geocities.com/ginnyks/
At Ginny's site you will find information on writing, specifically using
the Six Traits and also writing with the modes. In addition, she has
classroom management ideas including links to various discipline plans.
In social studies, she has teaching ideas and links to top sites. As a state
trainer for both Six Traits and for Social Studies, she tries to keep both
areas current to issues being discussed and provides a mail ring for KS
teachers in both subjects. Finally, the site has current issues for teachers,
like how to develop portfolios, where to find free graphic organizers, etc.
The site is updated regularly. Although focused on middle school, there
are many subjects that are for k-12 and much that is adaptable.
Educational materials that she has published can be purchased with links
from her site.They include a book, The Gifts of All Children, materials
for Six Traits and writing, literature units, tactile/kinesthetic patterns for
manipulatives, etc.
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LINK TO LEARNING.COM
http://www.linktolearning.com/
Link to Learning is a resource that lists Internet sites appropriate for
student use in the study of the Ontario Canada curriculum, grades K to 8.
These sites are selected based on relation to the curriculum, accuracy of
information, and grade-appropriate reading level and are organized by
subject and grade level. There are also links for teachers including lesson
plans and student activities. This is a non-commercial site and is updated
regularly.
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TO LEARN ENGLISH.COM
http://www.ToLearnEnglish.com
Free materials to learn or to teach English. For ESL learners and ESL
teachers: courses, documents, games, exercises, tests, interactive pages,
plays, fonts, cliparts, photos, jokes, cartoons, chat rooms, forums, e-mail
accounts, search engines, international TVs and radios, polls, selections
of books, selections of links, exclusive tools, classified ads, videos...
100% free.
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MUSICAL SPANISH
http://www.musicalspanish.com
Musical Spanish, is an exciting new interactive program teaching Spanish
through pop music. The book contains an interactive CD-rom and audio CD
of 10 traditional Spanish songs like La Bamba and Guantanamera, presented
in a contemporary dance-pop style. Includes animations to the songs, the
ability to click and hear individual phrases, a "Teacher's Guide to Using Songs
in the Classroom, and much more. The music is contagious and the grammar is
explained in easy terms.
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EDHELPER.COM
http://www.edhelper.com
Currently there are over 1,000 Webquests and 6,200 Lesson Plans listed at
this site. This includes Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, and
many more resources.
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MRS. SANDY KEEN'S 3RD GRADE HOMEPAGE
http://www.prairy.org/keenes
This website is for teachers, students, and parents. It has links and
information about her classroom, school, community, surrounding
communities, and state. It lists suggested books for second to fourth grade
students, including many author's links. There are also classroom teacher's
and students' newsletters which tell more about what is going on in the
classroom.
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PAM ELLIOTT'S 2ND GRADE CLASSROOM
http://myschoolonline.com/ME/Mrs_Elliott
This second grade website provides information and fun for students,
teachers and parents. Included are units taught, as well as teacher links
and student links. There is also a posting of publishing companies for
teachers and/or schools to check out the companies and view comments
about them from teachers who have actually used them. This could help
make more informed choices. Check out the inspiration page. There is
something for everyone at this site.
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:52:25 -0700
From: "Alec M. Bodzin" <amb4@LEHIGH.EDU>
Subject: Call for participation
Dear Colleagues,
The National Science Foundation is evaluating a new high school
biology program currently under development by Pearson
Education. This program is called Biology: Exploring Life.
The central component of Biology: Exploring Life is an extensive
World Wide Web site that will provide an interactive learning
environment for all students, and a source of daily support and
collaboration for teachers. The Web component will be fully
integrated with a short, concept-oriented textbook and a
collection of inquiry-based lab and field activities.
The main goal of the NSF study is to provide an ongoing
evaluation by teachers and students during the development of
this biology curriculum. Biology: Exploring Life is designed to
improve high school biology students' nderstanding of
fundamental biological concepts, to improve their
selfconfidence and skill in scientific reasoning and inquiry;
and enhance their ability to apply biological knowledge and the
methods of science to important social issues, consistent with
the National Science Education Standards.
We are seeking high school biology teachers who teach general
9th or 10th grade biology and are interested in pilot testing
Exploring Life materials in their classroom during the 2001-02
school year. Two summer evaluation workshops will be conducted
to introduce pilot testers to curricular materials and to
conduct focus groups on the effectiveness of the curricular
materials. Interested participants must be willing to review
materials prior to the workshop. One workshop will be held June
24 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers during the National
Educational Computing Conference in Chicago. The second
workshop will be held July 10-12 at Lehigh University.
Participants must be willing to pilot test cellular respiration,
photosynthesis, and biosphere chapters in their classroom during
the upcoming school year. Participants must be willing to have
a member of the evaluation team observe their students using the
Exploring Life materials in their classrooms.
Honoraria will be provided for attending the workshop and pilot
testing classroom materials during the 2001-02 school years.
Supplemental honoraria will be provided for reviewing additional
curricular materials in developmental stages.
Participants' students will require access to networked
computers with the following minimum hardware and software
requirements:
64 MB of RAM
Web browser: Internet Explorer 5 or higher
350 MHz CPU speed
56K connection, preferably higher
Flash 5 and QuickTime 4 plug-ins must be installed on the
Web-browser
If you are not sure that your computers meet these requirements,
please view our test page at
http://www.lehigh.edu/~inexlife/browsertest.html.
If you are interested in participating in an evaluation
workshop, please complete the requested information online at: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inexlife/call.html
Additional information about the Exploring Life evaluation study
is available online at:
http://www.lehigh.edu/~inexlife
For additional questions about the Exploring Life evaluation
study, contact:
Michelle Heist, project manager
610 758-6119
heistm@parklandsd.org
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Alec M. Bodzin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Science Education
Lehigh University
Phone: 610 758-5095 Fax: 610 758-3243
E-mail: amb4@lehigh.edu
http://www.lehigh.edu/~amb4/
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Educator's Award, please feel free to send me your suggestions.
The award is given out to websites that contain excellent content for
busy educators.
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and students. We will share these in future updates. Please send to:
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Mr. Marjan Glavac author "The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide
Web" Completely Revised and Updated 2ND Edition
LONDON, Ontario Canada ISBN 0-9683310-1-7 200 pages
speaker, teacher, author marjan@glavac.com
FREE subscription to The Busy Educator's Newsletter http://www.thebusyeducator.com/
"There are no boundaries for the journeys of the mind."
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