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Advisory:

Fancy Shoe Tying

http://digg.com/2019/fancy-shoe-lacing

Middle School Science Minute  

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)

CLIMATE CHANGE PRACTICES

I was recently reading the February, 2019 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.  

In this issue, I read the article, “Sound Practices in Climate Change Education” written by Peggy M. McNeal and Heather L. Petcovic.  In the article, they identified three broad themes that showcase sound practices in climate change education. They include:

1.  Connecting students with local climate change impacts.

2.  Encouraging students to collect, analyze, and draw conclusions from their own data.

3.  Fostering relationships between climate scientists, teachers, and students.

HTTP://K12SCIENCE.NET/PODCAST/PODCAST/ENTRIES/2019/3/21_MIDDLE_SCHOOL_SCIENCE_MINUTE__CLIMATE_CHANGE_PRACTICES.HTML

From the Twitterverse:  

John Meehan‏ @MeehanEDU

THANK YOU to everyone who’s helped make the #EDrenaline Rush #EggDashChallenge a hit in classrooms around the world! In just one week: 70K+ views! Games in 20 states and 4 countries! Thousands of RTs, likes & shares! Come join the fun! https://edrenalinerush.com/resources/eggdashchallenge/ …

NJAMLE‏ @NJAMLE

NJAMLE Retweeted NJAMLE

Join as an individual or as an entire school. We are #bettertogether. @tinamonte @4theMiddle @sanwoz @JenFitzMath @LynnThompsonELA @C_Requa @StephJWhite14 @kaity_haley @DrFrankRud @MrCorleyMath @JohnFritzky @kedwards51 @JohnFritzky @breicher @BRMSPRINCIPAL @historycomics

Kevin Honeycutt ‏ @kevinhoneycutt

Project this template on the wall at whatever size kids like and let them cut out, adjust, redesign and assemble their own helicopters! Add lights, circuits, apps and other STEAM/TEM elements to let creative learning take flight! #cardboardrules

Kevin Honeycutt ‏ @kevinhoneycutt

Project the template on the wall, trace it and cut it out with kids and let them make their own copy of Amelia’s plane! #paperhistory

John Meehan‏ @MeehanEDU

Have a class of students who can’t get enough @FortniteGame? I made a thing! Turn any close reading (poetry, numbers, historical documents, etc.) into a squad vs squad BATTLE ROYALE! #Fortnite Open source templates here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pVsv4S500RDkYUoYlh7LCRTiHEbLi5FxAXSELfbmDgU …

Melissa Majeski‏ @m0majeski

This strategy encourages students to work together and share thinking. #berkleydifference #iteachmath #kagan #middleschool

Ditch That Textbook‏ @DitchThatTxtbk

Sketchnoting in the classroom: 12 ways to get started Online tutorials @YouTube Channels #HyperDocs Book recommendations #Sketch50 Challenge and more! https://wp.me/p3bT67-2si  via @jmattmiller

Screencastify 🎬‏ @Screencastify

Want to know who watched your Screencast? “Take attendance” with Screencastify and Google forms. Upload your video into a form and require a name submission. Then – easily download all names on one spreadsheet from the responses tab #edtech @GoogleForEdu

MindShift‏ @MindShiftKQED

Parents can relate to their #teens with simple personal disclosures that remind kids that even if technology is different, human emotions are the same. #Parents can bond with their kids by focusing on these similarities @dr_fraga http://owl.li/97mS30odrHK  #edchat #parenting

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.  And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”

Resources:

Mr. N365

Reading prompts and questions – just like standardized tests.

https://www.mrnussbaum.com/readingpassageindex/#annotations:xmhcglI8Eem0hLONab-hkA

100 Writing Prompts

ReWordify

“I created this site to help more people understand more of what they read.

For ten years, I’ve been teaching English to people who need to work very hard to understand what they read.

My students are interesting, perceptive people who understand (for example) what pollution is, but they don’t understand what chronic, pervasive atmospheric toxicity means.”

I’m a public school teacher, and I pay for this site’s operation out of my own pocket. (Note: it’s not cheap.) Please help me out by using it only for your own personal use or for that of your students.

• Neil M. Goldman

https://rewordify.com/index.php#annotations:RC7C-k_CEemF8qspbu6TXQ

Web Spotlight:

One minute on the Internet

Re

https://infographic.statista.com/normal/chartoftheday_17518_internet_use_one_minute_n.jpg

https://www.statista.com/chart/17518/internet-use-one-minute/

Random Thoughts . . .  

Personal Web Site  

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Jokes You Can Use:  

What do you call it when you take a picture of your favorite bookcase?

• A shelf-ie!”

What do you get when you throw a bunch of books into the ocean?

• A Title Wave

Why did the man take his clock to the vet?

• It has ticks.

Which vegetable should you never take on a boat?

• A leek

Which is faster heat or cold?

• Heat – you can catch a cold.

Passes:

4 Word Challenge

1.  “Time to head back!”

2.  “One student is missing.”

3. Van Gogh is missing.

Advisory:

Reverse Poems

https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/reverse-poems/#annotations:tenEzD-uEemkpPsQkgEpGw

Middle School Science Minute  

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)

MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE MINUTE: OUTSTANDING SCIENCE TRADE BOOKS 2019 – PART ONE

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This is the first of a two part podcast series fostered by reading the February, 2019 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.  

In this issue, I read the article on the “Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12: 2019.  In this podcast, I feature Physical Science three science books:

1.  Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree

2.  Eavesdropping on Elephants: How Listening Helps Conservation

3.  Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

From the Twitterverse:  

Russel Tarr‏ @russeltarr

As a teacher, I once loved Twitter as a source of sharing ideas and inspiration. Does anyone else feel it’s now more of a soapbox for tiresome virtue signalling?

NJAMLE‏ @NJAMLE

Six More Days Until #NJAMLE19 @KeanUniversity! After @4theMiddle Welcomes Everyone, It’s Time to Get Fired Up with @DrFrankRud who will be #beyondepic. You don’t want to miss the passion and wisdom that the Good Doctor has to share. He even has Gold Shoes for this Gold Medal Day.

Russel Tarr‏ @russeltarr

My lesson starters sorted for next week…

Phyllis Fagell, LCPC‏ @Pfagell

Second grader: “What do you DO when you’re not at school with all of us?” Me: “What do you think I do?” Second grader: “Probably sit somewhere REALLY quiet and eat Party Oreos.”

Richard Byrne‏ @rmbyrne

Two Good Ways to Create Choose Your Own Adventure Stories #creativewriting

https://t.co/xdsA3zfEmY

Bored Teachers‏ @Bored_Teachers

Every single day! (w/ @NicholasFerroni)

Benjamin K. Woodcock‏ @bnjmn_k_wdcck

NEW POST! March is here which means Book Bracket is starting soon! Check out my overview of this student choice activity! #MarchIsReadingMonth #MarchMadness #BookBracket https://benjaminkwoodcock.com/2019/03/09/book-bracket-an-overview/ …

Corinne Galligan‏ @cmgalligan

Interesting idea… How Pineapple Charts Revolutionize Professional Development https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pineapple-charts/ … via @cultofpedagogy

https://t.co/k4Od4ZhlqM

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.  And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”

Strategies:

Resources:

Jeopardy! Google Slides

Richard Byrne has a neat write up on using Google Slides to create a Jeopardy! game.  Check it out:

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/03/get-copy-of-my-jeopardy-gameboard.html

Web Spotlight:

Are Children More Creative?

Watch this with Sir Kenneth Robinson’s seminal TED Talk. Compare and contrast.

It’s Not All About You:  CBC Radio

Reader threatened to sue technology magazine for using what he thought was his image.  But it wasn’t . . .

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5046925/man-angry-his-photo-was-used-to-prove-all-hipsters-look-alike-then-learns-it-wasn-t-him-1.5046933?fbclid=IwAR1JMv8F2R06fTDm-A3_ao12XEtlZyc5feZra-VmLQsXIowxtmuZ7YPPzSE

Random Thoughts . . .  

Top 15 and Top 5 Podcast on iTunes.

Personal Web Site  

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Jokes You Can Use:  

“Daddy, did you know that girls are smarter than boys?”

“No, I didn’t know that.”

“There you go.”

******

“The ditch-digger didn’t just quit, he yelled, ‘Take this job and shovel it!’”

Middle School Science Minute  

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)

Budburst

I was recently reading the February, 2019 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.  

In this issue, I read the “Citizen Science” section, written by Jill Nugent.  The title of the article was “Plant Phenology for Budding Biologists: Study Seasons of Change with Budburst.”  In this article, we learn about the citizen science project – Budburst. Budburst is a national phenology citizen science project that launched in 2007 and is currently based at the Chicago Botanic Garden.  To learn more about this project, visit:

http://budburst.org

http://k12science.net/Podcast/Podcast/Entries/2019/2/28_Middle_School_Science_Minute__Budburst.html

From the Twitterverse:  

Jill Gerweck‏ @jillgerweck

Logged some professional development hours this afternoon diving into @studysync’s Teaching Labs! So nice to have relevant, applicable PD from the comfort of my classroom! #DigitalLearning #ProfessionalDevelopment #PowerUpMMS

Phyllis Fagell, LCPC‏ @Pfagell

11-year-old boy during carpool: “We played Sharks & Minnows in PE, but Daniel wouldn’t tag a single minnow!” Me: “Why? Isn’t that the whole point of the game?” Boy: “Yes, but Daniel says he’s a pacifish.”

Alice Keeler‏ @alicekeeler

Tip: the @nytimes has a weekly “what is going on in this graph” that removes the headline and article so students can just wonder and analyze. It’s wonderful. #wsmi

https://www.nytimes.com/column/whats-going-on-in-this-graph

WeAreTeachers‏ @WeAreTeachers

Someone freed the lion. Okay, now you go.

Donnie Piercey‏ @mrpiercEy

Want to know how your students can create their own Google Expeditions in about 10 minutes? I made a bunch of quick video tutorials to help: Site: https://sites.google.com/view/mrpiercey-resources/geo/tour-creator … Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLvbESajcYXWcZWUKwKG1x6sdlSda8PWC … Tour Creator: https://vr.google.com/tourcreator/  #EdTechTeam #KyGoDigital #EdTech

Screencastify 🎬‏ @Screencastify

Today is HUGE!!We officially have over 10 MILLION users! Thanks for all that you have done to #sharescreencastify. To celebrate, we thought we’d offer 10% off today but ya’ll are too awesome for that – we’re doubling it. Enjoy 20% off an upgrade all day with code “10MILL”

Jennifer Gonzalez‏ @cultofpedagogy

The Cure for Bad PowerPoint: A Review of Presentation Zen @presentationzen http://ow.ly/Sdim30nOS7M  #edtechchat #teaching #profdev #deeperlearning #edtech

Rich Czyz‏ @RACzyz

A3: Here are some alternatives to HW https://fouroclockfaculty.com/2018/08/5-alternatives-to-homework/ … #4OCF #satchat

Mandy Froehlich‏ @froehlichm Feb 28

A1 At the risk of shameless self-promotion, this is what I have created the Hierarchy of Needs for Innovation and Divergent Thinking for. This kind of support has little to do with technology and more to do with creating brainspace. #createedu

Ditch That Textbook‏ @DitchThatTxtbk

Although it may not be possible to actually add hours to our day, we can utilize the resources available to us to spark our imagination and give us ideas for lessons we can use right away….

https://t.co/RdOX64rasQ

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.  And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”

Strategies:

Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

Different books appeal to different readers. Many students do not become readers until they encounter “the book.”

One challenge teachers face when students are reading different texts simultaneously is how to cover the standards if every student is reading a different book. While coaching a teacher in Palm Springs, I developed a digital notebook using Google Slides that teachers can use to facilitate a book club or literature circle unit.

https://catlintucker.com/2019/02/book-clubs-and-literature-circles/#annotations:DNrywDh-EemI3Iv9jLTJfQ

Why It’s Crucial — And Really Hard — To Talk About More Equitable Grading

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/52679/why-its-crucial-and-really-hard-to-talk-about-more-equitable-grading#annotations:B7ka7Dh5Eemcl_tsOSLHtw

What’s the best way to teach math?

A boy in Lafayette, Indiana, recently thought his struggle with math was an emergency. He called 911 and told the operator he’d had a bad day at school and had tons of homework.

https://whyy.org/segments/whats-the-best-way-to-teach-math/#annotations:wlNwbjhqEemcr_ObEQVGjg

Resources:

Harry Potter

The exhibition was split into rooms that reflected the subjects taught at Hogwarts, like Potions, Divination and Defence Against the Dark Arts, which echo the stories the British Library have shared on our platform through a series of fascinating online exhibits.

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/harry-potter-a-history-of-magic

Read.Inquire.Write

Welcome to Read.Inquire.Write.! Our free, downloadable curriculum creates a process to support middle school students’ argument writing through reading of sources and analysis of complex social and historical problems. Across investigations, students write increasingly complex forms of argument – from interpretations to critiques to counterarguments – with support from disciplinary literacy tools. Use our investigations and disciplinary literacy tools to support your students in the reading, thinking, and writing process, adapting the investigations to meet the particular needs of students in your classroom. Or, use our literacy tools and Library of Congress sources to structure your own investigations of social studies topics you teach.

http://readinquirewrite.umich.edu/

National Online Safety

At National Online Safety, it is our mission to make the internet a safer place for children. We will achieve this through equipping school staff, parents and children with the knowledge they need to understand online dangers and how best to react should an incident arise.

https://nationalonlinesafety.com/resources/platform-guides/#annotations:bALngDxmEemzjjtag-x75g

Web Spotlight:

Portmanteau & Rhyme Generator

https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator

Pair Just-right Texts and Reading Strategies

https://www.middleweb.com/39693/pair-just-right-texts-and-reading-strategies/#annotations:_Sbp9jh4Eem5ZqdmCHhjYQ

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