Instructions for Students on How to Write Annotations: Tips for Teachers
Assign your students to write annotations on a novel to ensure they have read and comprehended the book. This article contains some tips on assigning …
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Teach Students Proper Comma Usage in a Fun and Musical Way.
Young students may not always be “in the mood” to participate in punctuation lessons, but they typically have a voracious appetite for music. …
Continue ReadingCreative Lesson Plans and Reading For Information: March Madness Ideas for High School Teachers Who Want to Watch the Games and not get Fired
Watch basketball and teach kids how to read for information. This is a March Madness classic
Continue ReadingA First Ladies Lesson Plan For Mother's Day
A fun assignment asking students to match a First Lady to a movie character based on how they think she would define motherhood, or the many roles …
Continue ReadingHigh School English Lesson Plans For Busy Teachers
You’re behind in your grading, but you feel a responsibility to provide a quality education for your students. Should you grade or teach? …
Continue ReadingThe Four Square Method for Teaching Vocabulary Words From a Novel: Lesson Plan
Teaching vocabulary from the novels we read is very important, but often teachers stick to one mode of vocabulary instruction: looking up the word in …
Continue ReadingArt Class: Use the Collages of Romare Bearden: Advertising Repurposed to Showcase African-American Culture
This lesson plan introduces students to the work of African-American artist Romare Bearden and engages them in a series of art criticism activities. …
Continue ReadingHigh School Science: Acid Base Lab Demonstrating the Body's Natural Buffer System
A laboratory exercise is presented in which students make their own buffer. Background information and instructions on how to create the lab are …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan for Teaching Electron Configuration and the Bohr Model
Chemistry teachers can use an online fireworks video from TeacherTube to capture student interest while you teach electron configuration. A video …
Continue ReadingOf Mice and Men Circular Plot Structure
Dig deeper into literature with this lesson plan which helps your students understand what a circular plot is? Learn how it makes literature so …
Continue ReadingStudents Create Dandy Ads in this Art Lesson on Advertising
In this four-part series on the art of advertising, students will continue their learning about ad design and further apply what they learned by …
Continue Reading"The Best Laid Plans Of Mice and Men": Lesson Plan on Where the Title "Of Mice and Men" Comes From
I’m certain that 18th century mouse of whom writes Robert Burns had no idea his home would be destroyed. I’m even more certain he had no …
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