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YouTube  Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this playlist mostly for my self. I found videos that can help me be a better teacher. I also found some motivational videos for my students to watch. I also got some ideas for science projects to do with my class. YouTube is a great resource to help those first year teachers.

May News Letter Ed Tech. Standard 5: Use technology tools for individuals and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. This is a news letter designated for the month of May. I love it so much that I could use it for other months as well. Its very simple to change the colors and some of the pictures. The layout is simple and easy. Its very organized and easy to read so there is no confusions. Its colorful and fun for kids to look at too, so they can remember the important dates and to study their spelling words and vocabulary. I also think newsletters are very important. They help parents get involved in the student education, and by parents getting involved they help teach their children more. I defiantly recommend every teacher to find an easy template to use as a newsletter and send them out with their kids and parents! Maybe mine can be of some assistance in giving you a...

Educreation 6th Grade Music Standard 2: The students will play instruments as a means of musical expression; 3: The students will create music through improvising, arranging, and composing. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. This Educreation is a fun way for students to learn how to play a ukulele. Its simple and instructional. I start by showing what string numbers and frets are. I continue to show them chords: C, F, D, G. These chords are used in "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" Which is the song we will learn and play as a class. I continued to teach extra chords, for those over achiever students. A minor, D minor, and E minor are the extra chords I taught. Then at the close of the video I showed a picture of the song and the chords. This would be so helpful for substitutes to use when the teacher isn't there, t...

Health Mind Map 6th Grade Health Standard 1:The students will learn ways to improve mental health and manage stress. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this mind map for my students to understand how to live and health life in an easy and organised way. It discuses: a healthy way to manage your stress, how to have a proper sleep routine and diet, how to exercise correctly, and also help advise. Students will learn how to apply this to their daily life through practice in the classroom. We will work on this through out the curriculum. At recess and P.E. we will review over what is good and bad when being physically active. After lunch we will discus good foods and bad things to keep out of our bodies. I want all my students to be healthy! Having a mind map as a visual aid will help my students remember it better. ...

Human Skeleton 3rd Grade Health Standard 3; Objective 1: Summarize the functions of the skeletal and muscular systems. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this Thing Link to help my students understand the human skeleton. The human skeleton can be hard to learn for younger kids. I created this Thing Link not only to quiz kids but also to teach them the human skeletal system. It includes many of the basic bone names. There is also a fun rap song that I found on YouTube that I included. I want my students to learn about themselves, what they are made of, literally! Bones are very important to know. I had a bone vocabulary test in each of my health classes in junior high and high school. In my classroom I want to teach my student  the bones song. Over the curriculum we will learn the bone by studying this Thing Link ...

Story Bird-My Mommy is the Best. 4th Grade Health Standard 2; Objective 2: Identify the qualities of positive role models. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. This Story Bird is so cute. The Health standard I chose was, "identify the qualities of positive role models." This is a rhyming book, from a daughters point of view telling and showing how much she loves her mom. I think parents play a great role for kids and they need to be a good role model for them. In class after reading this Story bird my class will write a paper on who their role model is and why. Doing this will help them identify who they look up to and have more appreciation for that person and also other people around them.

Multiplication Test 5th Grade Math Standard: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. The Google Doc that I created can help me and also other teachers in their classrooms. I created a simple Multiplication tests for 3rd - 6th grader. There are 3 different texts included in this Google Document. This is so the students and teachers can get a variation of what the students know and what they can work on. This document is organized and neat, so students don't get distracted and its easy to take. I want my students to excel in math, I always struggled with my times tables. When my teachers said "Timed test!", I would get really bad anxiety because I knew I wasn't going to pass. I don't want that for my students. I want them to have confidence and kn...

Tiki Toki: Presidential Timeline 5th Grade Social Studies Standard 5: Students will adress the causes, consequences an dimplications of the emergence of the United States as a world power. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. This Tiki Toki is a fun visual way to show kids the order of the presidents. This includes: names, dates in office, age entering office, visual images of each president, political party, and interest facts about each president. There are also extra websites to visit to learn more. The presidents can be hard to learn and memorize. In class we will learn a song to help us memorize the president and something significant about each one. This unit will be spread out in a span of time. Each day or so often we will focus on one president and talk about them and what they did for our country. I want my stude...

Pinterest Page Ed. Tech. Standard 5: Use technology tools for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. My Pinterest page that I created will not only help me but also other teacher in search for inspiration. This page includes activities, quotes, lessons, and classroom decor. I use Pinterest on the daily and highly recommend it to any and all teachers to use it to get ideas for teaching styles and classroom looks! I'm constantly pinning fun science fair projects and fun art projects. These ideas will not only help me have fun in my classroom but also my students to enjoy their year and have fun in my class!

Stargirl Book Quiz 5th Grade Library Media Standard 8: Students explore various aspects of literature in books and other formats. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. This is a quiz/test for the sixth grade read Stargirl. It consists of 26 questions. This test will inform me how well they read and understood the book. The test is easy and short, so the children won't lose interest and I can still see how well they did. I want my students to learn to love reading. Once you create a habit of good reading, you keep it forever. If you start reading younger, reading becoming easier and you'll like it more. I remember when I was in elementary school, I really struggled with reading. I was always in the slower reading group and that always discouraged me. I think understanding the importance of reading at a younger age will help...

Glogster- Anne Frank 6th Grade Social Study Standard 3: Students will understand how revolutions have had an impact on the modern world. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. This glogster is designed to teach sixth graders about Anne Frank, and how she was a brave ordinary young person. This glog includes Annes timeline, accomplishments, and biology. There are pictures of Anne, her family, and concentration camps. At the bottom is a video that voices her story I want my students to learn about Anne Frank and what a hero she is. She was just like them, and going to school, and because of her we have historical documented events. I also would like to emphasis in class how important it is to keep a personal journal. Journals are ways that we can keep in touch with our past experiences. Also many other individuals can learn from t...

Prezi: American Sign Language World Language Standard 1: The student will be able to recognize a signed introductory greeting. 2: The student will be able to recognize in a signed dialogue the exchange of personal information.  Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this Prezi for all and any grade level to understand simple American Sign Language words. Students will become familiar with finger spelling and how to form their hands.We will practice finger spelling throughout class as well as during ASL time. Students will recognize the the difference between me and my, and you and your.We will practice proper greetings when students come into and out of class. Students will learn like and don't like. We will play a get to know you game learning these signs. During extra time in class we will learn fun color and ...

Spring Carnival Flyer Ed. Tech. Standard 6: Use telecommunications efficiently an effectively to access remote information and communicate with others in support of direct and independent learning and for pursuit of personal interests. This flyer is a fun example, that I could use for almost anything. It is like a demo that I could just change the information for what ever event I need to. In my flyer I include the following: schools name, event title, date, time, cost, where, and events that will take place. Flyers are an easy way to get in touch with parents. They also help increase the students responsibility to give the flyer to their parents. When the parents get involved it shows that they are interested in their students education. Getting to know the parents can help you know your students better. Flyers can help you accomplish that bond between teacher, student, and parent, in a very easy way.

Phases of the Moon 6th Grade Science Standard 1: Students will understand that the appearance of the moon changes is a predictable cycle as it orbits Earth and as Earth rotates on it's axis. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum.  I created this Animoto to help my students understand the phases of the moon. When I was in elementary school I remember learning this, and I was so amazing that the sliver that was sometimes in the night sky was actually a ball. As I show this video to my class I would also like to include some fun facts about the moon. For example: the moon keeps the same side towards earth; The moon was created by a violent collision into earth; What is a solar eclipse; There is water on the moon; Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, his mission was called Apollo 11, on July 20 1969. I want my students t...

Solar System 6th Grade Science Standard 3: Students will understand the relationship an attributes of objects in the solar system. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this Animoto because planets are so much fun to learn about! In my Animoto I include pictures of each planet in their order from the sun. I remember back in 6th grade, my teacher had . pictures of the planets up on her wall. She would always quiz us on them. Now I can remember all the planets in order. In my Animoto I wanted to include some fun and cool facts about the planes so as I teach this to my class here are some fun facts I can use. Mercury is the closest one to the sun, but it also has ice on it's surface. Venus and Mercury have no moons. No one knows how old Saturns's rings are. Neptune has supersonic winds. There are two types of pla...

Seasons 6th Grade Science Standard 2: Students will understand how Earth's tilt on it's acis changes the length of daylight and creates the seasons. Ed. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this Animoto to help my students understand the seasons. Seasons can be confusing when you don't really know what causes them. Its not winter just because there is snow on the ground and its cold. Its not fall because the leaves have a mind of their own and decide to change orange. Its because of earths tilt that we have seasons. When the sun is shining directly on the northern hemisphere we have summer. When the sun is shining directly on the southern hemisphere they are having summer and we are having winter. In between those times we have fall and spring. I want my students to know and understand why we have seasons. Many...

Stars 6th Grade Science Standard 4: Students will understand the scale of size, distance between objects, movement, and apparent motion (due to Earth's rotation) of objects in the universe and how cultures have understood, related to, and used these objects in the night sky. Ed. Tech Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this Animoto on stars to teach my students how fun and interesting stars are. As I show this in class I will also describe things that I could not put in the video. For example my first slide is a picture of the milky way. Many students have seen pictures of the milky way but in some cases they don't know what it is. I will go on to describe the Milky Way and what its composed of. My other Animoto videos will help me with that as well. Then, going on in my slides I come to a picture of the North Star,...

Express Success Brochure 4th Grade Health Education Standard 5: The students will adopt behaviors to maintain personal health and safety and develop appropriate strategies to resolve conflict. E d. Tech. Standard 4: Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, to remediate skill deficits, and to facilitate learning through the curriculum. I created this brochure to help my students learn about physical education and how important it is. I start by discussing what physical activity and success is. There are many skill that you can learn while being physically active, and I also named some of them in the brochure. It goes on to say why physical activity is important. Something that is very important when being physically active is being nice to other players around you. I talk about what good sportsmanship is and how to be a good friend even if they aren't on your team. I also discus some words to describe success and challenge. Thi...