Classroom Teachers Need Fun Halloween Activities to Use For Homework Assignments
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Sue_Gnagy_Fegan]Sue Gnagy Fegan
Halloween comes at the perfect time in the school year to give students a break. Teachers might give their students homework that includes fun Halloween activities without losing progress in their educational curriculum. Some teachers will take the time to create these on their own, others will purchase an activity to download. Here is a list of the sort of fun activities teachers should look for in products they create, purchase or download as a printable worksheets or games.
Word Search Puzzles These are easily created with programs found online or customized by hand using graph paper. Pre-made puzzles can be purchased, downloaded and saved for future use. The key here is to be sure the words are at the reading level of your students.Never just assign a word search puzzle without also including a way for the students to use the word independently. An example would be to write ten sentences, trying to fit two or three words in each sentence.
Fill in the Blank Word Puzzles These usually involve a particular word with some letters left blank and some additional activity to find the correct letter. It might be unscrambling. Often these worksheets include secret messages that are solved using letters from the words. Again in order to help build vocabulary, the students need to use the words from their assignments, may-be during an in class review or orally reciting a sentence as they go over homework in class.
Math Worksheets Normally math worksheets for Halloween are a worksheet pages decorated with pumpkins or ghosts and possible a secret word. What would be perfect for math Halloween homework is something different, where you might work with place value, or factors or review order of operations. Take the time to look for some quality math ideas to use as a fun Halloween activity assigned for homework.
Writing Prompts Teachers are always looking for new and different prompts to use for writing assignments. A motivating writing prompt pre-written on a Halloween designed worksheet that students to use for homework is an essential resource to have on hand.
Story Starters It is very common for higher elementary and middle school classes to begin the school year with a review of the plot chart. Halloween is perfect timing to put those to use and have the students write their own short story, with characters, conflict, the climax and a resolution. Using graphic organizers to plan out the plot elements ahead of time provides a great review of these terms. This is a perfect long term assignment, with the story due on Halloween.
Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles Having a supply of Brain Teaser Cards to use with students during the week leading up to Halloween will give the students some problem solving opportunities. Sending each student home with some of these and challenge them to come up with solutions is a simple yet effective way to get them to use problem solving skills and to get their families involved as well.Halloween comes once a year whether teacher like it or not. The closer the holiday comes, the harder it is to keep student focused. Having some fun Halloween activities to use as homework assignments may be just the thing needed to tap into that energy, and keep their brains focused on academics.
Sue Gnagy Fegan used a structured, sequential multisensory teaching approach for the past 34 years. She saw first hand the benefits of engaging students in productive, hands on activities in class. She created and has presented Make it Fun! Make it Challenging! Make it Multisensory! workshop at conferences across the country.
At Halloween, teachers and parents will benefit from having a secret weapon available to them with a variety of well researched, fun and innovative ideas at their fingertips. Check out this link for more information about a Halloween games and activities that cover many skill levels.
Go to http://www.squidoo.com/HalloweenFunActivities Bring holiday fun into the classroom while keeping the curriculum in tact.
For some teaching tips on making the classroom more fun in general check out http://www.thesue-teaching-tips.info/fun_teaching_tips.html
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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High School Science Fair Projects - Topic Ideas For Winning Experiments
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dee_Schrock]Dee Schrock
High school science fair projects can be on any number of topics, depending upon the science course being taken. In the high school years students are allowed to take more advanced biology, chemistry, Earth Science and in some cases, rudimentary physics and astronomy courses. With this diversity, projects can be designed that even are cross disciplinary, like combining physics and astronomy to design a project that could answer problems faced by space travelers, for example. A few ideas for high school level science projects follow:
• Experts are saying that global warming could be the cause of the disappearance of many of the world's fields of glaciers in the next 50 years. What evidence is there that these changes are already occurring? Why is there a debate among scientists that global warming may or not be occurring? Do you think this debate may be financially or politically motivated? What effects will global warming have on the planet if it is happening? How do scientists that do not believe in global warming explain the discrepancies? Show both sides of the argument so that the average American can be better educated on how it affects everyone's daily life, especially if something isn't done soon.
• High school science fair projects involving "going green" are highly popular. Biodiesal fuels seem to be the next answer when it comes to finding a solution to the current oil crisis. What constitutes a "biofuel"? How is it manufactured and from what? Are these sources considered renewable? If so, why? How does the use of a biofuel affect CO2 emissions? Are biofuels as efficient as the fossil-fuels now being used? What adaptations are needed for a vehicle to utilize a biofuel?
• President Obama signed legislation in June of 2009 that will be providing incentives through the Department of Energy to businesses and individual homeowners that install small solar or wind-powered generators. He is hoping that these smaller generators will hook into the local utility grids to provide more wattage that can be purchased by other users. What exactly constitutes a solar generator? What constitutes a wind generator? How will these benefit the local power utility? Are there regions of the country that would be better suited to one type of generation system over the other? How would the individual installing the small system determine this? Is the savings to energy consumers projected between the years 2012 and 2042 realistic? Why or why not?
• There is a huge debate raging over the use of genetically modified foods. What constitutes an engineered food? What are some of the dangers that some scientists believe that genetically altered foods could pose? Why do some farmers fear the planting of genetically altered crops near those that are not? Do you feel this concern is justified or not? If so, what can be done about it? Provide a sheet that can be presented to the average citizen to educate them on the subject, and who to contact to voice objections to.
For more high school science fair projects and step-by-step instructions, visit http://www.easy-kids-science-experiments.com. Be sure to check out the site for tons of simple science projects elementary science experiments, middle school, and high school science.
© Copyright 2009. Feel free to reprint this article on your site as long as the article is not modified in any way and the resource information (about the author) is listed as above.
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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dee_Schrock]Dee Schrock
High school science fair projects can be on any number of topics, depending upon the science course being taken. In the high school years students are allowed to take more advanced biology, chemistry, Earth Science and in some cases, rudimentary physics and astronomy courses. With this diversity, projects can be designed that even are cross disciplinary, like combining physics and astronomy to design a project that could answer problems faced by space travelers, for example. A few ideas for high school level science projects follow:
• Experts are saying that global warming could be the cause of the disappearance of many of the world's fields of glaciers in the next 50 years. What evidence is there that these changes are already occurring? Why is there a debate among scientists that global warming may or not be occurring? Do you think this debate may be financially or politically motivated? What effects will global warming have on the planet if it is happening? How do scientists that do not believe in global warming explain the discrepancies? Show both sides of the argument so that the average American can be better educated on how it affects everyone's daily life, especially if something isn't done soon.
• High school science fair projects involving "going green" are highly popular. Biodiesal fuels seem to be the next answer when it comes to finding a solution to the current oil crisis. What constitutes a "biofuel"? How is it manufactured and from what? Are these sources considered renewable? If so, why? How does the use of a biofuel affect CO2 emissions? Are biofuels as efficient as the fossil-fuels now being used? What adaptations are needed for a vehicle to utilize a biofuel?
• President Obama signed legislation in June of 2009 that will be providing incentives through the Department of Energy to businesses and individual homeowners that install small solar or wind-powered generators. He is hoping that these smaller generators will hook into the local utility grids to provide more wattage that can be purchased by other users. What exactly constitutes a solar generator? What constitutes a wind generator? How will these benefit the local power utility? Are there regions of the country that would be better suited to one type of generation system over the other? How would the individual installing the small system determine this? Is the savings to energy consumers projected between the years 2012 and 2042 realistic? Why or why not?
• There is a huge debate raging over the use of genetically modified foods. What constitutes an engineered food? What are some of the dangers that some scientists believe that genetically altered foods could pose? Why do some farmers fear the planting of genetically altered crops near those that are not? Do you feel this concern is justified or not? If so, what can be done about it? Provide a sheet that can be presented to the average citizen to educate them on the subject, and who to contact to voice objections to.
For more high school science fair projects and step-by-step instructions, visit http://www.easy-kids-science-experiments.com. Be sure to check out the site for tons of simple science projects elementary science experiments, middle school, and high school science.
© Copyright 2009. Feel free to reprint this article on your site as long as the article is not modified in any way and the resource information (about the author) is listed as above.
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Languages-Literature Major
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Felicia_Surya_Pranata]Felicia Surya Pranata
So, I was browsing yesterday and found a good blog in which one of the posts speaks about languages/literature major, particularly in Indonesia.
The post is in Indonesian, but the main point is that, "Languages/literature major is very different than that of any other major such as Accounting or Medicine, or Engineering, which prepares the students of the major to be able to immediately enter the field after graduation."
My opinion says, in other words, college majors are divided into two categories: those who prepare you for a specific job, and those which are studied because you have interest in them.
However, the latter are somewhat less appreciated in the society, because they seem to be showing an image of having 'undefined job prospects', and languages/literature major often falls into this category.
It might be true, that the people who take up languages/literature in university might not know what they want to become in life, because the skills which they obtain from this higher education are applicable in almost every field, which makes it a major which offers you a lot of job opportunities after graduation.
However, it's sort of true that this major lead to no specific or defined job, unlike Accounting which prepares you to become an accountant, or unlike Medicine which prepares you to become a doctor, for example.
Then why do people take up languages/literature major, if it doesn't lead to a specific job? Well, I should then say that those who wish to take up this major should be those who really have interest and passion in the field.
Don't take up this major just because you think it's easy. It's definitely not. I just learnt these from my German classes. There are people who need to struggle hard learning the languages.
There are people who have no interest at all but they don't have any choice but to learn the language in order to be able to study/work/live in Germany.
And there are people too, who need to struggle hard despite of having no interest in order to strive and to score real decent marks. And seriously, this pressure is stressful for them.
Perhaps, languages/literature major can be considered as a hard major too, if one doesn't have interest or doesn't have the talent in the field. Then, why does it have a less prestigious image in the society? Based on my experience, moreover in developing countries.
If my relatives ask me what would I major in, and if I answered German, perhaps they would frown and ask me again, "What would you do with the degree in such major?". Answering, "A lot," wouldn't sound an answer to them.
The negative responses from the society often discourage the people from taking languages/literature major. This leads to these people to think of some other majors, which prepare them for work.
Like Accounting, or Medicine.
Without actually having any interest. Honestly, I think nobody is really interested in the field of 'engineering' or 'accounting' or 'medicine'. For example is my own friend.
She's into Mathematics and is now taking Engineering. Although this is an exceptional case, since she's looking for a university whose medium of instruction is English, she hasn't got so much choice if she sticks
to Math, so she opened up for some other related major like Engineering.
There are people like her too, but who have the opportunity to actually study Math at university level, but refuse to do so, or have once considered to do so, but then are discouraged like in the situation I have described above, ended up taking Engineering which is, well, it has Math, but it is not Math.
The same for language major. I refuse to take anything like Journalism or Communication although people say it involves a lot of writing and reading and having interest in languages would definitely be useful, because I'm interested in languages particularly German, not in Journalism.
Journalism might be related to languages, but Journalism is not languages.
Engineering also, is not only about Math. There are some other modules which might not be liked by the person taking up this major, and this can make the studies not enjoyable.
Well, it's a risk of taking such major which leads to a specific job. Stressful prestige, isn't it?
So, perhaps it would be better to major in whatever you can and whatever you have interest in. Because in the end, it is not guaranteed that those 'more prestigious' majors surely going to offer you 'these well defined' jobs after you graduate.
Roughly saying, just major in whatever you wish, because if there are no jobs available for the graduates of the major, then the major itself wouldn't be there. http://soerjapfelicia.blogspot.com/
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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Felicia_Surya_Pranata]Felicia Surya Pranata
So, I was browsing yesterday and found a good blog in which one of the posts speaks about languages/literature major, particularly in Indonesia.
The post is in Indonesian, but the main point is that, "Languages/literature major is very different than that of any other major such as Accounting or Medicine, or Engineering, which prepares the students of the major to be able to immediately enter the field after graduation."
My opinion says, in other words, college majors are divided into two categories: those who prepare you for a specific job, and those which are studied because you have interest in them.
However, the latter are somewhat less appreciated in the society, because they seem to be showing an image of having 'undefined job prospects', and languages/literature major often falls into this category.
It might be true, that the people who take up languages/literature in university might not know what they want to become in life, because the skills which they obtain from this higher education are applicable in almost every field, which makes it a major which offers you a lot of job opportunities after graduation.
However, it's sort of true that this major lead to no specific or defined job, unlike Accounting which prepares you to become an accountant, or unlike Medicine which prepares you to become a doctor, for example.
Then why do people take up languages/literature major, if it doesn't lead to a specific job? Well, I should then say that those who wish to take up this major should be those who really have interest and passion in the field.
Don't take up this major just because you think it's easy. It's definitely not. I just learnt these from my German classes. There are people who need to struggle hard learning the languages.
There are people who have no interest at all but they don't have any choice but to learn the language in order to be able to study/work/live in Germany.
And there are people too, who need to struggle hard despite of having no interest in order to strive and to score real decent marks. And seriously, this pressure is stressful for them.
Perhaps, languages/literature major can be considered as a hard major too, if one doesn't have interest or doesn't have the talent in the field. Then, why does it have a less prestigious image in the society? Based on my experience, moreover in developing countries.
If my relatives ask me what would I major in, and if I answered German, perhaps they would frown and ask me again, "What would you do with the degree in such major?". Answering, "A lot," wouldn't sound an answer to them.
The negative responses from the society often discourage the people from taking languages/literature major. This leads to these people to think of some other majors, which prepare them for work.
Like Accounting, or Medicine.
Without actually having any interest. Honestly, I think nobody is really interested in the field of 'engineering' or 'accounting' or 'medicine'. For example is my own friend.
She's into Mathematics and is now taking Engineering. Although this is an exceptional case, since she's looking for a university whose medium of instruction is English, she hasn't got so much choice if she sticks
to Math, so she opened up for some other related major like Engineering.
There are people like her too, but who have the opportunity to actually study Math at university level, but refuse to do so, or have once considered to do so, but then are discouraged like in the situation I have described above, ended up taking Engineering which is, well, it has Math, but it is not Math.
The same for language major. I refuse to take anything like Journalism or Communication although people say it involves a lot of writing and reading and having interest in languages would definitely be useful, because I'm interested in languages particularly German, not in Journalism.
Journalism might be related to languages, but Journalism is not languages.
Engineering also, is not only about Math. There are some other modules which might not be liked by the person taking up this major, and this can make the studies not enjoyable.
Well, it's a risk of taking such major which leads to a specific job. Stressful prestige, isn't it?
So, perhaps it would be better to major in whatever you can and whatever you have interest in. Because in the end, it is not guaranteed that those 'more prestigious' majors surely going to offer you 'these well defined' jobs after you graduate.
Roughly saying, just major in whatever you wish, because if there are no jobs available for the graduates of the major, then the major itself wouldn't be there. http://soerjapfelicia.blogspot.com/
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