MSM 453: With No Objection, We Give You The Objective Builder of Joy!
Jokes:
I have a friend who has written a book. It’s on “how to fall down stairs”.
Yep, it’s a step by step guide.
I bought some new memory insoles for my shoes.
No more forgetting why I walked into the kitchen.
I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.
I’ll let you know.
What did the patient say when informed by the Dentist that he had acute gingivitis?
Thank you.
Quick tip: If someone named “Ruth” quits, don’t go around referring to the workplace as “ruthless”.
Advisory:
Historical Differences
3. Playing Baseball in the Street
7. Rollar Skates with a key
8. Drive-in Movies
9. Bench Seats in cars
14. Sunday drives
15. One TV in the living room
17. TV sign off message
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
Middle School Science Minute: Outstanding Science Trade Books for 2020
I was recently reading the February, 2020 issue of “Science Scope” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teaching Association.
In this issue, they listed the Outstanding Trade Books for Students in K-12, as determined by the Children’s Book Council and the National Science Teaching Association.
In this podcast, the top 5 middle school (6-8) books are highlighted. They include:
* The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Light the World
* Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel
* Undaunted: The Wild Life of Birute Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans
* Dreaming in Code, Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer
* The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs
From the Twitterverse:
Typical EduCelebrity @EduCelebrity
Do not feel guilty if a student fails your class. If admin doesn’t bump the grade up to inflate average GPA or graduation rates, the student will get the credits by taking a summer online course in which 95% of the grade is earned by successfully registering for the class.
Susan Edelman: Bloomberg’s Test Score Con
Susan Edelman: Bloomberg’s Test Score Con
: This is an awesome new feature to an already excellent app! App smashes wonderfully into @Seesaw too! Hey @PennridgeSD teachers- who wants to play?!!? https://twitter.com/doinktweets/status/1230975557158002689 #doink #greenscreen #everyonecancreate
Using Google AutoDraw for Sketchnotes, Infographics, Drawings, and More http://controlaltachieve.com/2017/04/google-autodraw.html #ControlAltAchieve
Don’t forget #mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm EST. Look for your host, Todd Bloch, to have a middle school topic all ready to go! Make it a strategic part of your personal professional development.
Strategies:
Timelinely
Annotate videos. (Need to compare to H5P).
Resources:
3 Reasons Students Procrastinate—and How to Help Them Stop
Learning Objectives Builder
Google Earth View
Wallpaper downloads available.
https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/19/google-earth-view-1000-new-images/?guccounter=1
100 Most Spoken Languages
Around the world, there are more than 7,000 regularly spoken vernaculars,
https://word.tips/100-most-spoken-languages/
Web Spotlight:
Why Sitting For Long Periods Can Affect Teens’ Mental Health
study finds that sitting still is linked to a higher risk of depression among teens, but even an hour of light physical activity every day reduces the risk of depression by 10%.
Kandola and his colleagues analyzed this data from when the children were 12, 14 and 16 years old. And they found that as these kids went through adolescence, they spent more time sitting.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/17/806599794/why-sitting-for-long-periods-can-effect-teens-mental-health
Literacy Test
Spell backwards, forwards.
That may be a trick question. If you read it using normal syntax, you end up with the instruction to spell the word “backwards” forwards, which will give you the answer “b-a-c-k-w-a-r-d-s.” But, due to the comma, one could very reasonably read the command using a reversed syntax. In that case, the instruction would be to spell the word “forwards” backwards, resulting with “s-d-r-a-w-r-o-f.” Either answer is potentially correct — or, potentially, wrong.
Gratitude and acknowledgement are more important than ever
“Dear audience members,
A couple of days ago, we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest literary figures, Jaan Kross. In the beginning of a play staged at the Drama Theatre to mark the occasion, the author has the main character turn to the audience with the following address:
“If you really want to accomplish something in this world, start immediately! Not in the next minute, but the very instant the desire comes. Even if it’s in the middle of the night. Do it now, straight away. It doesn’t matter how – just begin. Anything started tomorrow will be completed only after you’re dead and gone.
“You don’t have to be in the theatre to imagine the crafty, playful gleam in the old master’s eyes accompanying those words. In essence, it’s the attitude of a child at play, for whom time still comes down to the here and now, with thousands of possibilities still open. Not someone in the throes of time constraints, but someone with mastery over time. Someone who is forever experimenting and examining, who rejoices in successes, who might shed some brief tears and then try, try again if at first, they don’t succeed.
Happy are those who embody this attitude.”
https://news.err.ee/1055597/kaljulaid-gratitude-and-acknowledgement-are-more-important-than-ever
Random Thoughts . . .
The Dities – Happy 30th Anniversary of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence.
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