Month: January 2013

Lab: What is Energy??

leslie January 30, 2013 3 Comments
I. LOVE. TEACHING.  Love it... Love it... love it.  I can't wait for tomorrow where my students get to become a newscast in the Amazon Rainforest; however, today I had such a great time teaching them about energy.  The best is peaking their interest.   As I have said before, I use the 5 E model when teaching science.  Today was our Engage and Explore lesson on forms...

Mexico City Bus Tour

leslie January 27, 2013 3 Comments
Who doesn't like to take field trips?? Out of the country is even better:)   And like most teachers... budget cuts are having a significant impact on our field trips. But with TCI... you can take field trips in your classroom to places all over the world.  It's even better when you make your classroom into a bus, or a plane or a train.  I know... who has time for...

LAB: It’s a Roller Coaster kinda World …

leslie January 25, 2013 2 Comments
It definitely was in my classroom today.  We built roller coasters to demonstrate our knowledge of potential and kinetic energy in science.I teach science using the 5 E's (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate)...it's perfect if I actually got to teach science each and everyday, but I don't.  I have to use an A/B schedule to teach science and social studies,...

ToonDoo… the MOST AMAZING site. EVER. Yes EVER.

leslie January 16, 2013 0 Comments
Have you seen it???  Toondoo???  Talk about awesome.  In the great words of Phil Robertson, it makes me and my students "happy, happy, happy."  They have fun learning and I have a blast watching them depict what they learned in a cartoon form.  Not to mention it's the top 4 letter word that make teachers crane their necks when they hear it.  Yes it is....FREE. All...

TCI: Where Social Studies Comes ALIVE!!!

leslie January 12, 2013 2 Comments
And it does!!!  This is my first year to teach 6th grade social studies which covers World Cultures....da da da dum.  Did you hear that???  That sound you hear when there is a daunting task you have no idea how to attack... Yeah that is totally how I felt when having to start teaching Social Studies.  Did I mention my background is in Art Ed??? Ummm yeah....So I need all the...