Recipes for July, 2009
Heads Down, thumbs up!
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28 Jul 2009
This game is also known as 7 up.
Select 4-5 students and give them a flashcard/picture.
All other students put their heads down and one thumb up. The other students go around the classroom and gently squeeze one student's thumb. They return to the front of the class.
The student's whose thumbs were squeezed stand up and guess who did it by stating the vocabulary on the flashcard "Did a "bear" squeeze me?". …
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Sky Writing / Body Writing
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28 Jul 2009Create Snazzy Slideshows Online
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Tux Paint a free computer art/drawing program
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28 Jul 2009I teach computer skills classes to adults who have developmental disabilities. My favorite class to teach is computer art. Tux Paint is a free computer program that you can legally load onto as many computers as you wish. You will be amazed and delighted with the creativity of your students.
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If you are teaching children, you'll need to put up an alphabet chain above the chalkboard (that's the perfect place and allows you to use for all kinds of games etc...).
It is very easy and the BEST by far is by Jan Brett and incredible artist, teacher and sharer. Get the alphabet cards here in easy to print pdf. Just…
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It’s sweet! It sucks!
In: False Beginner| High School| Intermediate| Middle School| Recipe| University
27 Jul 2009This is a great way to get students expressing how they feel.
Brainstorm together on the board, ways to express how you like or don't like something. Put in some idioms (It sucks! / Sweet! ). Or the teacher can put up some ways and then ask students how they feel about ......? Students respond.
Next, play a selection of recent pop/rap/hit music. Students should write down on paper how they…
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Classroom Rewards Lottery
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27 Jul 2009Here's something one of my mentor teachers did back when I was a student teacher. I don't have any experience using it in my own classroom, but it seemed like a good idea...
Many classrooms are grouped into desks, with a points reward system where each group can earn points during class by actively participating (singing, chanting), winning games, and otherwise being helpful towards the learning/co-operative spirit of the classroom. Here's…
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Marbles in a Jar
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27 Jul 2009This is an idea for improving the co-operative spirit in the classroom (or as some may refer to it, "classroom management"). I learned it from a teacher trainer in Canada, as part of a seminar on "Assertive Discipline."
Basically, you get a jar (an old jam jar will do, or else some small piece of plastic tupperware works, too). You also get enough marbles to fill up the jar, and store…
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If you want to be a really effective teacher, get a laser pointer! They cause only a dollar or two at most and really help a teacher effectively modify curriculum.
With a laser pointer, you can be helping a student and very quickly point to what you are talking about: spelling, a picture, a thing and facilitate student understanding. Like other forms of… » Click here to read the rest of ‘Get a Laser Pointer!’…
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