Language Arts Lessons

When I was in junior high and high school, I had some really great “English” teachers (as we called them). Some of them are still doing that great job today even after retirement from the school system I attended. I owe 99% of my writing ability to those people with the other 1% [...]

Math Tricks

Anybody that knows me knows I’m horrible in math. But then, most people don’t even know who I am on this blog so what does it matter??? LOL
Anyway, I found this really cool math trick that I thought I might pass along, because even I could do it!! I took this from [...]

Wi-Fi Woes

This post from C-Net has some really great wireless networking advice.
Image from www.cnet.com

Is the earth elastic?

Is the Earth elastic? by ZDNet’s Roland Piquepaille — Scientists from Brazil and the U.S. think so. In a surprising discovery, they’ve found that a GPS station in Manaus, near the center of the Amazon River basin, showed that the Earth level was going up and down by almost 3 inches (75 mm) every [...]

It’s Fall!

Don’t you just love this time of year? The leaves are beginning to turn a little, and the evenings are getting a little cooler. However, in this part of the country the leaves just turn brown and die. We don’t get the pretty reds and yellows like some parts of the country. [...]

Websites for Teachers

I’ve had a teacher or two ask me for some Websites for their classrooms. I hope the following sites help a little bit. Just click and drag your mouse over the link and copy and paste it into your browser address bar.
Middle School
Science
http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bstpract/bstpractNew/ScienceMS.htmlhttp://quest.nasa.gov/http://www.thegateway.org/http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/109.htmlhttp://www.ncrel.org/tplan/guide/int5.htmhttp://www.iloveteaching.com/Intenetclass/index.htmhttp://techlearning.com/outlook/reviews/science.jhtmlhttp://www97.intel.com/odyssey/teacher.aspx?viewby=categoryhttp://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/tech/k6/6ssites.htmhttp://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.htmlhttp://www.edutopia.org/modules/ms/index.phphttp://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/standards/
Mathhttp://www.sabine.k12.la.us/class/excel_resources.htmhttp://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/abc.htmhttp://www.thegateway.org/http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Mathematicshttp://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/http://rcs.rcps.k12.va.us/creativeways/index.htmhttp://www.ncrel.org/tplan/guide/intmath.htmhttp://www.iloveteaching.com/Intenetclass/index.htmhttp://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.htmlhttp://illuminations.nctm.org/index_d.aspx?id=271http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=125http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/rtc/workshops/math_webresources.htmhttp://www.edutopia.org/modules/ms/index.phphttp://www.wmburgweb.com/Resources/Mathcat/kinteg.html
Language Arts
http://www.thegateway.org/http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Literaturehttp://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/http://rcs.rcps.k12.va.us/creativeways/index.htmhttp://www.ncrel.org/tplan/guide/int6.htmhttp://www.iloveteaching.com/Intenetclass/index.htmhttp://techlearning.com/outlook/reviews/sites_for_edus.jhtmlhttp://www97.intel.com/odyssey/teacher.aspx?viewby=categoryhttp://tiger.towson.edu/~avan1/portfolio/lessonplan.htmhttp://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.htmlhttp://www.edutopia.org/modules/ms/index.phphttp://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.htmlhttp://7-12educators.about.com/msub1plneng.htm