February 2010
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Interesting & Helpful Quick Weight Loss Tips! →
My seventh grade science class is going over nutrition and just happened to find this interesting website that gives you helpful tips for keeping healthy and losing some weight in the process.
**Note: visit my educator’s resource website TeachPower.net to purchase the same PowerPoint lessons I use to educate on diet, nutrition, and digestion.
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Poll: Cell Phones in School? Y or N
I was reading this interesting article on MSNBC on cell phones in school. The link is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35063840/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ Our school allows cell phones but they have to be turned off until the end of school.
I was thinking an innovative idea to incorporate the cell phone into my science class by allowing the students to type their notes for the...
January 2010
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"Quilt of Holes" poem... a nice lift me up!
We were having a class discussion about helping people and serving others. My middle school students had the basic idea they would love to help people but sometimes its “yucky and smelly”. I [no God] put into my thoughts the following poem that I read a long time ago. Once I read it to them they had a different outlook on serving others. As I faced my Maker at the last judgment, I...
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Teach Power has expanded into the Twitter &...
Teach Power educational community now has a Twitter and Facebook pages as requested by our community! Go to TeachPower.net and click on the Twitter and Facebook buttons on the top of the page to join us and stay connected on all the latest news additions to the educational resource library that is constantly growing! Now is a great time to be part of our education community as most schools like...
Science Projects... What's Your SOP?!
I was just wondering as most schools are coming up on the time of the year that we begin the 2 month long process of science projects and really focusing on the scientific method as a guide for the students, how the rest of us educators handle this large daunting task?!
Do you let the students pick their own project topics? make them pick from a list?
How involved are the parents in this project...
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December 2009
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Welcome to TeachPower.net
Merry Christmas to all of you and let's hear a YEA! for our well earned Christmas vacation =)!
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Students Having Trouble Answering Questions...
I am a middle school science teacher that also happens to tutor high school and college level students. I have come to see that it has been alarming how common it is for students NOT to comprehend what a question is asking, which leads to answers that don’t completely fit the question. For example:
Question: What is the name of the process that keeps the air in our atmosphere warm...
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