Yesterday when I subbed, I collaborated with a science teacher for one of the class periods. The kids were studying the food chain. To help them understand it, the science teacher had found this cute video on youtube. The kids loved it and sang along with it. I thought it was so cute that I just had to come home and find it for you to see too. So here goes...
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Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
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24 May 2008
Entries for May 14, 02, 01 and April 29, 25, 2007
Entry for May 14, 2007
On this day in history 1904-- The United States hosts its first Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. Parts of the Olympics seemed to be amateurish. Read this article to read about some of the mishaps of these games. To read a little more about the 1904 games and view a list of the winners go here.
Entry for May 02, 2007
I haven't included any crochet information lately so I thought I better get with the program! Today I found a 2007 horoscope for crocheters. Go to this page to read yours. Mine is Pisces and it definitely matches me!
Entry for May 01, 2007
On this day in history 1937 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II. This act forbid the export of weapons, ammunition and other implements of war to "belligerent states." Go here to read the full "Neutrality Act" of May 1, 1937.
Entry for April 29, 2007
On this day in history 1945 American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Concentration camps were used by the Germans during WWII to house prisoners and to use them as slave laborers and also as a place to exterminate them. The largest populations were Jews. To see an official memorial website go to this page . To see actual film footage of concentration camps in 1945, go here but be advised that the film is disturbing.
Entry for April 25, 2007
On this day in history 1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates. Though set up to address funding inequities in educational resources for African Americans (then called by the old-fashioned term "Negroes"), UNCF administered scholarships are open to all ethnicities. It provides scholarships to students attending its member colleges as well as going elsewhere. To read more about this scholarship go to wikipedia ; or go to The UNCF page .
(Originally posted on my Yahoo 360 blog)
On this day in history 1904-- The United States hosts its first Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. Parts of the Olympics seemed to be amateurish. Read this article to read about some of the mishaps of these games. To read a little more about the 1904 games and view a list of the winners go here.
Entry for May 02, 2007
I haven't included any crochet information lately so I thought I better get with the program! Today I found a 2007 horoscope for crocheters. Go to this page to read yours. Mine is Pisces and it definitely matches me!
Entry for May 01, 2007
On this day in history 1937 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II. This act forbid the export of weapons, ammunition and other implements of war to "belligerent states." Go here to read the full "Neutrality Act" of May 1, 1937.
Entry for April 29, 2007
On this day in history 1945 American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. Concentration camps were used by the Germans during WWII to house prisoners and to use them as slave laborers and also as a place to exterminate them. The largest populations were Jews. To see an official memorial website go to this page . To see actual film footage of concentration camps in 1945, go here but be advised that the film is disturbing.
Entry for April 25, 2007
On this day in history 1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates. Though set up to address funding inequities in educational resources for African Americans (then called by the old-fashioned term "Negroes"), UNCF administered scholarships are open to all ethnicities. It provides scholarships to students attending its member colleges as well as going elsewhere. To read more about this scholarship go to wikipedia ; or go to The UNCF page .
(Originally posted on my Yahoo 360 blog)
17 May 2008
Entry for November 09, 2006
I received the following in an email. Turns out that Bill didn't write these rules but the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids , Charles J. Sykes, did. I haven't read this book, I just know that these rules make a lot of sense. Go here to read more.
Bill Gates' Rules for Life
Rule 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault. Don't whine about your mistakes -- learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how "cool" you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
I'm a substitute teacher. It is usually obvious whether or not a teacher has control of her class when I substitute there. When I substitute for a teacher with little control, students won't be in their assigned seats, aren't afraid of the consequences from work not completed, sleep in class and throw things (paper, books, pencils and whatever else is handy). I just had 2 days in such a class and have one more to go. One young lady actually told me that I was making her do too much work. Hmm, class is almost 1 1/2 hours long, and when I did the work myself during my planning period (to see how hard and long it was) and it took barely over 1/2 hour to look up the answers and fill in the blanks and do 2 other short writing assignments I was wondering what ideas our teens have about the reasons they attend school. Then I wondered about the teacher when several of the students told me that she didn't give them tests. Do any of you remember the days that if you got in trouble at school you'd be in more trouble at home? I believe that we really need to adhere to a strict code of conduct in our schools and enforce it by establishing consequences and seeing that they are uniformly applied to all students such as if you're not doing your work then you don't pass and the teacher will talk to your parents. Work with parents as a team, not against each other. Let's get communication going and work as a team to educate our kids and prepare them for the "real world."
(Originally posted in my Yahoo 360 blog)
Bill Gates' Rules for Life
Rule 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault. Don't whine about your mistakes -- learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how "cool" you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
I'm a substitute teacher. It is usually obvious whether or not a teacher has control of her class when I substitute there. When I substitute for a teacher with little control, students won't be in their assigned seats, aren't afraid of the consequences from work not completed, sleep in class and throw things (paper, books, pencils and whatever else is handy). I just had 2 days in such a class and have one more to go. One young lady actually told me that I was making her do too much work. Hmm, class is almost 1 1/2 hours long, and when I did the work myself during my planning period (to see how hard and long it was) and it took barely over 1/2 hour to look up the answers and fill in the blanks and do 2 other short writing assignments I was wondering what ideas our teens have about the reasons they attend school. Then I wondered about the teacher when several of the students told me that she didn't give them tests. Do any of you remember the days that if you got in trouble at school you'd be in more trouble at home? I believe that we really need to adhere to a strict code of conduct in our schools and enforce it by establishing consequences and seeing that they are uniformly applied to all students such as if you're not doing your work then you don't pass and the teacher will talk to your parents. Work with parents as a team, not against each other. Let's get communication going and work as a team to educate our kids and prepare them for the "real world."
(Originally posted in my Yahoo 360 blog)
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