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September 05, Volume VI, Issue 7
In this issue, you’ll find:
Highlights Catalog: Creativity Tower
Lesson Plans: Every Day Lessons
Highlights-Jigsaw: Substitute teaching and want to earn more?
Hot Topics: September Celebrations
Webmaster Tips for Teachers: CSS Tip: Catch Visitors' Interest With Headlines
Highlights Catalog's Creativity Tower
This colorful 5-drawer tower holds hours of creative fun. It all begins with stickers- over 400 of them! There are stars, hearts, happy faces, cute bugs, brightly colored fish and many other designs. Some are soft and fuzzy, and others sparkle and shimmer. There's also 4" x 4" cardstock in a rainbow of colors, 3 pads of colored paper and a dozen crayons in shiny metallic colors. Includes ideas for fun things to make and great ways to decorate. Drawers snap together. Tower measures 6" x 8 1/4" x 5 1/4".
Lesson Plans
Amazing Attributes -- Sorting and Organizing Objects:
Unit Overview Grades Pre-K - 2
This unit plan uses a variety of materials including electronic examples from the NCTM Principles
and Standards for School Mathematics and other Internet resources. Students collect data using
objects, pictures, and symbols. They organize data by sorting and classifying in different ways.
Students display data using multiple representations. Students engage in such skills as problem
solving, reasoning and proving, communicating, connecting, and representing fundamental ideas about
data.
illuminations.nctm.org
Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia Grades 3 - 5
Comic books can be useful tools in improving literacy and teaching even reluctant readers some of
the terminology typically associated with other forms of text. In this lesson, students will be
introduced to onomatopoeia, which describes words that imitate the natural sound associated with
an action or an object. Using comic books and strips, students will find onomatopoetic words, develop
a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers, especially writers of comics, use
onomatopoeia. Students then use an online tool to create their own comic strips using onomatopoeia.
www.readwritethink.org
Personal Flags Grades 3 - 8
Flags establish communication in symbols for country, family honor, religion and goals. Personal
flags are expressions of a student's own life in symbols and serve as a link between the student
and his or her environment.
www.dickblick.com
The Acid Test Grades 6 - 8
In this activity, students will prepare a test solution whose color changes when an acid or a base
is added; determine whether various household substances are acids or bases and look for patterns in
the results; determine how their test solution compares to commercial acid-base testers; and search
for other test solutions.
www.sciencenetlinks.com
Highlights-Jigsaw: Substitute teaching and want to earn more?
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our "play =learning" philosophy with other parents. Feel great knowing that you are helping children
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Hot Topics
September Celebrations
Library Card Sign-Up Month
September is Library Card Sign-up Month - a time when the American Library Association and libraries
across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all.
www.ala.org
Patriot Day - September 11
The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts,
and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. Patriotism and unity mixed with
sadness, anger, and insecurity are common themes expressed in this online presentation of almost
200 audio and video interviews, 45 graphic items, and 21 written narratives.
memory.loc.gov
Hispanic Heritage Month - September 15 to October 15
Education World offers a piñata full of activities that will help teachers focus attention on the
contributions of people of Hispanic heritage to the history of the United States.
www.educationworld.com
Autumnal equinox - September 22
In astronomy, the fall equinox signals the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere: the
moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward; the equinox occurs
around September 22-24, varying slightly each year according to the 400-year cycle of leap years
in the Gregorian Calendar.
Webmaster Tips for Teachers
CSS Tip: Catch Visitors' Interest With Headlines
By Larisa Thomason,
Senior Web Analyst,
NetMechanic, Inc.
Images look nice, but eyetracking research shows that visitors look at
text - particularly headlines and sections headers - before they notice
the images. Snappy headlines that are carefully formatted for readability
are a great way to catch visitors' interest and draw them deeper into
your site.
www.netmechanic.com
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