Decimal fractions

The user 'redhills' put together a useful collection of websites that help high school and middle school students understand decimals. There are some fun interactive applications that help kids understand placement and how that can change the value of a number. There are also some sites that help with decimal plotting on graphs.

Decimal Fractions

Study Resources on Pearl Harbor

Found another great binder by 'xmath' who has combined a rich resource of links on the history of Pearl Harbor. If you are teaching a class on this subject, you might want to start by looking at this binder:

Teaching Pearl Harbor

Colonial America Resources

My daughter is in the 4th grade and we just recently went to Philadelphia and Boston for Thanksgiving. Her teacher recommended we stop and visit some historical sites because they will be covering the colonial period later this year. We really enjoyed visiting downtown Philadelphia, visiting the Betsy Ross home, Liberty Center where we saw the Liberty Bell, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin's tombstone and the location of their last home. We also saw the oldest rent district in the US - Elfray's Alley. There have been residence occupying the buildings since the 1700s.

There is a wonderful collection of resources from 'lthurber' covering the colonial period. I would recommend checking out these references if your child is working on a history project for this time period.

Colonial America

Thanksgiving and Pumpkin pies

Here are some more interesting links on the topic of teaching Thanksgiving.


This binder has an amazing list of links that cover K-5 grades on various subjects like math, english, esl and science - all revolving around the Thanksgiving holiday:

Teaching Thanksgiving

This binder has the history of the Mayflower and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade tradition as well as a list of resources from Scholastic.com

Thanksgiving

This binder also has links to interesting facts about turkeys and recipes for cooking turkeys for Thanksgiving:

Thanksgiving

This binder has Thanksgiving Songs and ESL lesson plans for THanksgiving:

Thanksgiving teaching

This binder has an amazing list of Pumpkin recipes - from pies to soups. This is the place to go if you are looking an all encompassing collection of pumpkin recipes for Thanksgiving and winter holidays:

Pumpkin recipes

Take advantage of Thanksgiving week

We still have school during the week of Thanksgiving. For some this is an opportunity to teach the concept and tradition of Thanksgiving in some unique ways. Xmath has collected a list of websites that cover different ways to incorporate Thanksgiving into a project in the classroom. With so many unique resources, you are bound to find something that will be useful for your grade and classroom.

Teaching Thanksgiving

10 great ways educators are using livebinders

There is a nice blog post listing a bunch of livebinders that teachers have created for use in their classroom. These represent binders that where teachers have carefully selected links and uploaded their own documents to support a particular subject in class. To see the complete list, click on this link:

http://livebinders.wordpress.com/

Studying Edgar Allan Poe

It is after Halloween, but I'm sure there are still English classes that are covering the works by Edgar Allan Poe. I've found this livebinder that includes some great links on Edgar Allan Poe's work. There is even some tabs with Flash interactives that carry on the 'eeriness' of his work - beating heart beats, cawing of ravens, shadows - fun stuff! The livebinder also includes wiki information on his life, poetic terms, sites that include his short poems and stories as well as other useful information about poetry in that era.

To view just click on the link below. Well worth it!

Poe