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Texas Child Care Quarterly: Promoting Imagination in Preschool Classrooms
Imagination is one of the most important ingredients of a creative mind. Because imagination is at its peak in early childhood, educators can continually cultivate it among preschoolers. By allowing children to experiment with life...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Arbiter
Determine your standards (logic, creativity, structure, etc.) when assessing student writing. Evaluate three essays using an analytic or holistic rubric and see how your standards compare with your peers.
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Global Schoolhouse: Harnessing the Power of the Web
This online tutorial shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use, and in particular for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Grind Your Mind
This colorful site begins with an interactive quiz about peer pressure and then gives a lot of information on what peer pressure is and how to make smart choices.
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Learners Edge: Play in the Classroom
Play is not more important than science, literacy, physics, or math - it IS science, literacy, physics, and math. It is the FOUNDATION for learning. This article touches on the research supporting the importance of incorporating play...
PBS
Pbs: Creativity and Play: Fostering Creativity
One of the most important types of creative activity for young children is creative play. This article discusses the benefits of creative play and other ways to foster creativity in your classroom.
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School for Young Children: Risk Taking for Preschoolers
This article takes a look at what risk-taking looks like in a preschool classroom.
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Early Learning Services: Challenge and Risk in Children's Play
Risky play can be defined as a thrilling and exciting activity that involves a risk of physical injury, and play that provides opportunities for challenge, testing limits, exploring boundaries and learning about injury risk. This article...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Start Networking!
To get a better understanding of complex networks, students create their own, real social network example by interacting with their peers in the classroom and documenting the interactions. They represent the interaction data as a graph,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing & Writing About Non Fiction
Introduce your students to the different types of non-fiction such as biographies, biographies, and informative books. Students will use graphic organizers, peer interaction, and hands-on experiences to further understanding of this lesson.
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Pbs: Kid Vid: Dividing Mixed Numbers and Fractions
Critique a peer's thinking about two division word problems, one with whole and mixed numbers and one with two fractions, in this interactive from KET. Students watch a video of a student thinking through two word problems that involve...
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Pbs: Kid Vid: Dividing Fractions
Compare a division problem with whole numbers to a similar problem about dividing fractions in this interactive from KET. Students watch a video of a peer talking about a fraction problem that involves equal groups, with the number of...