Planning to sketch some Google Doodles
School begins again and teachers check their websites and blogs as they get ready to greet their students. Don’t forget …
Previous articles
Point of View Game
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 …
“How It’s Made” videos used to learn summarization technique
Type “How It’s Made Episodes” into Youtube’s search line. Choose a video from this series that sparks your interest. The …
Australia’s Last Aboriginal Police Tracker–inferential skills saved lives
Australian Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port has just retired from the Queensland police force after 33 years. His …
Dancing Fingers Video and Inference Questions
Target Audience: Grade 10-12 Read the questions below and then watch the video twice with one of the questions in mind. …
Proud of Autism’s Mathematical Gifts
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, …
Japanese box-maker video and questions requiring inferential skills
Have your students watch the video twice and then have them use their inferring skills to answer the following: …
Earth Day Activities
Earth Day Activities in most schools drive me crazy because I don’t think they are very environmental at all. Three …
Topical Words
http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm World Wide Words, created by Michael Quinion, is a wonderful site that investigates …
What’s the difference between…?
An alternative to looking up definitions of new words as vocabulary expansion, is to choose near-synonyms and have a discussion …
