A lot of sites have sprung up over the past two months offering lesson plans of varying qualities to teachers. Of all the ones I’ve seen so far, only two deserve to be added to The Best Places To Find Free (And Good) Lesson Plans On The Internet: National Museum of American History has a lot of very impressive lesson plans that can be used online or in the physical classroom. Science in the City
Wokandapix / Pixabay I have a number of regular weekly features (see HERE IS A LIST (WITH LINKS) OF ALL MY REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURES ). This is a relatively new addition to that list. Some of these resources will be added to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions ! and the best will go to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To
Katie Hull and I did a two-part video series with Ed Week on creating the conditions for encouraging student intrinsic motivation during remote learning. They just released Part One. I’m adding it to THE “BEST OF THE BEST” RESOURCES TO SUPPORT TEACHERS DEALING WITH SCHOOL CLOSURES . You can see a series of animated videos we on this topic on my videos page . You might also be interested in Best P
‘Challenges, Curiosity, Creativity, & Community’ in the Online Science Classroom is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four science educators share online teaching tips, including having students conduct hands-on experiments at home and maintain scientific notebooks. Here are some excerpts:
BiljaST / Pixabay Six years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A
As regular readers know, three books following the format of our ELL Teacher’s Toolbox , and which Katie Hull and I edited , just came out (clicking on the covers below will lead you to their Amazon pages). And just as all the student hand-outs from our books are available free-of-charge, with no registration required, the same is true of these three. Just go to publisher’s webpages for each of t
TED-Talks just unveiled a neat project of inviting graduates and their supporters to record a message: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, millions of students won’t have the opportunity to be honored at an in-person graduation this year. However, billions of us can still celebrate these students online. TED invites all members of the class of 2020 to record and share a #gradua TED talk . Let’s ligh
10-4: How to Reopen the Economy by Exploiting the Coronavirus’s Weak Spot is the headline of a pretty interesting article in The New York Times today. In it, some professors/researchers propose a strategy for re-opening
