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Planning to sketch some Google Doodles

September 2, 2014

School begins again and teachers check their websites and blogs as they get ready to greet their students. Don’t forget …

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Point of View Game

July 22, 2014

http://www.pbs.org/pov/reportero/game.php#.U87CyoBdXZB   A game by PBS.org where students investigate the risks that journalists take to report on organized crime and …

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“How It’s Made” videos used to learn summarization technique

July 21, 2014

Type “How It’s Made Episodes” into Youtube’s search line. Choose a video from this series that sparks your interest. The …

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Australia’s Last Aboriginal Police Tracker–inferential skills saved lives

July 4, 2014

    Australian Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port has just retired from the Queensland police force after 33 years. His …

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Dancing Fingers Video and Inference Questions

June 30, 2014

Target Audience: Grade 10-12 Read the questions below and then watch the video twice with one of the questions in mind. …

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Proud of Autism’s Mathematical Gifts

June 29, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR36jrx_L44 Jake Barnett will graduate this year with a Master’s degree from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, …

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Japanese box-maker video and questions requiring inferential skills

June 28, 2014

  Have your students watch the video twice and then have them use their inferring skills to answer the following: …

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Earth Day Activities

March 27, 2014

Earth Day Activities in most schools drive me crazy because I don’t think they are very environmental at all. Three …

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Topical Words

March 24, 2014

              http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm World Wide Words, created by Michael Quinion, is a wonderful site that investigates …

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What’s the difference between…?

March 2, 2014

An alternative to looking up definitions of new words as vocabulary expansion, is to choose near-synonyms and have a discussion …

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