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If you've ever needed an answer to a question, chances are you've been one of the 2 trillion searches that Google sees annually.

But have you ever wondered if there's an easier way to find the answers to your questions?

Google Advanced Search is the perfect option, but not all Google users are aware of its many functions.

By typing a specific function before a search term in Google, you can quickly and easily find a simple answer to your question without sifting through irrelevant search results.

Here's a list of the functions that exist in Google Advanced Search.

Video: The Most Helpful Google Advanced Search Operators

Sam Selders jumps into advanced Google search operators to explain what they do and why it's important.

Quotes

When you add quotes around a search query, Google will only return search results with that exact word or phrase.

You should use this function when you want super specific results, when a term in the phrase could easily be confused with another term, or if you're not satisfied with results you've gotten so far.
I.e. "1 year old neutered bobtail cat" would return results with only this phrase included and no other variations
OR

"Or" is used when you want to search for two specific or equally-relevant queries. You can also use the pipe (|) symbol.

You should use this function when you want to search for one term, its counterpart, or two somewhat similar terms. By using this function, you tell google that you'd be satisfied with results from either term or phrase.
I.e. bananas OR plantains would return results for both terms
- (minus sign)

The minus sign is used when you don't want to see a certain term in your search results.

You should use this function when you want to filter your results to remove the specified term. This can cut your search time in half when you want results, but not from certain sources or including certain keywords.
I.e. SEO-Forbes, would show results with content about SEO, but not from Forbes.com
City city

When you use this function, you can easily see flights from one city to another. Simply type two different city names side by side in Google Search and you'll get a chart of upcoming flights.

This function is used to find flights that take off from the first city and land in the second city, which can save you a lot of time instead of searching for an airport, offered flights, flight times, etc.
I.e. San Antonio San Francisco will show all upcoming flights from San Antonio, Texas to San Francisco, California
Link:

When you insert this function before a specific URL, the results will show pages that point to that URL.

You can use this to see what pages on the Internet link to the page you're looking for.
I.e. link:auntieannes.com, will show pages that link to auntieannes.com
Something notable about this function-if you use it in conjunction with the -site: function, you'll be able to see pages that link to your specified URL, but aren't on that sites pages.
I.e. link:auntieannes.com -site:auntieannes.com, will show pages that link to auntieannes.com, but aren't on their website
..

Use this function between two numbers to indicate that you want results that include numbers between the two you've indicated.

You should use this function when you want to narrow your search results to only include numbers that you indicate.
I.e. running shoes $25..$75, would show results of shoes that were in this price range
*

The asterisk function is known as a placeholder in a phrase for a word.

You can use this function to find articles, keywords, dates, and other information.
I.e. "* is the key to success"
In

The "in" function converts units of measurement into other units.

You can use this function by placing one unit ahead of the other, inserting "in" and finishing the search with another unit of measure. It's basically a conversion calculator when you don't have one handy.
I.e. yards in a mile will calculate how many yards are in a mile
Site:

This function searches for your query within a specific site.

You should use this when you want to find a specific piece of information within a specified site.
I.e. site:starbucks.com lattes will give only results of pages within Starbucks.com that mention lattes
Allintitle:

This function shows results that have your query in the title tag of their site.

You should use it when you want content with specific titles, such as blog posts or articles. This is especially useful when you want a specific page like a blog post.
I.e. allintitle:the cow jumped over the moon, would show only blog posts or articles with this title
Intitle:

This function searches for results with a single term in the title of a page rather than a whole phrase.

This can be used when you want to find titles with a single specific word and then a second word elsewhere in the content.
I.e. intitle:spaghetti sauce would return results that have "spaghetti" in the title and "sauce" in the body content
Inblogtitle:

Similar to "allintitle:," this function specifically searches for titles of blogs.

This is useful when you want results that only include blog posts with a certain word in the title. This ensures that you don't get news stories or other content formats. Be sure to put your phrase in quotes!
I.e. inblogtitle: "dog grooming 101" schedule would show search results that include blog posts with this title
Inposttitle:

Similar to "intitle:", this function can include results of blog posts, videos and web pages specific to blog posts.

You should use this function when you want to find blog titles with a specific word and then a second word elsewhere in the blog.
I.e. inposttitle:yoga poses would return pages with "yoga" in the title and "poses" somewhere in the text
Allintext:

This function shows content with your searched terms anywhere in its content.

Its useful when you want to find content with a specific phrase or set of words- this function allows you to find detailed search results. When you add quotes to the query, you'll get even more specific results.
I.e. allintext:recipes for a weeknight will return results with the specified phrase in the body of the content
Allinanchor:

The allinanchor function shows sites that use your search term in link text.

This helps you find sites that use certain anchor text in different links, even if you can't remember where those links lead.
I.e. allinanchor:swimming would return sites that use the word "swimming" when linking to another page
Allinurl:

This function returns search results that have your entire search query in their URLs.

This can be useful when you want to find a specific URL that you know includes one of your terms.
I.e. allinurl:burger joint would return results that have the entire query of "burger joint" in the URL
Inurl:

When you use this function, Google will show results with your specified word located in the URL.

This function differs from the "allinurl:" function because it only searches for one word in the URL rather than the whole query.
I.e. inurl:cupcake baking, would return results of URLs containing the word "cupcake" and that has "baking" somewhere in the content of that URL
Allinpostauthor:

This function returns results that have content written by your specified author.

This is especially useful when you remember the author of a piece of content, but not the blog title. It's also great when you want to find additional content by a specific author.
I.e. allinpostauthor:Nicholas Sparks, would only return results with content by Nicholas Sparks
Related:

Probably one of the most general and useful functions, related: allows you to see results that are similar to the URL that you search.

This is great for finding sites that are somehow related to your query.
I.e. related:NYTimes.com, would show results that are similar news sites
Info:

This function gives you information about your searched domain. The given information includes the cache of the site, similar pages to the URL you searched, pages that link to the domain that you searched, other pages on the same domain, and pages that contain the domain text on their page.

It's useful when you want a ton of information on a specific domain. You'll have to follow the links provided after you type the query to get the information.
I.e. info: ae.com would give you information on American Eagle's website
Define:

One of the most common functions in Google Advanced Search, the define: function shows dictionary definitions of a word or phrase.

This saves time and hassle of typing in dictionary.com and searching for a word.
I.e. define:emacity would give you a dictionary definition of the word
Source:

This function searches for mentions of a query in a certain news source.

It allows you to refine your search to a specific topic from a specific publication.
I.e. Anderson Cooper source:New York Times will show mentions of Anderson Cooper in articles by the New York Times
Location:

This function shows results based on a specific location.

Use this function if you want to find news and general information about a specific area.
I.e. location:North Dakota will give you results based around the term "North Dakota"
Filetype:

This is a function that allows you to search your results based on its file extension.

If you are looking for only images, you could enter your search term followed by the function and .jpg. This can be done for any file format.

You can also use the function "ext:" to do the same thing.
I.e. jellyfish filetype:jpg will show .jpg images of jellyfish, jellyfish ext:jpg will also show .jpg images of jellyfish
Movie:

The movie function is great for when you want to skip tracking down a movie theater to see what's playing.

Type in the function followed by the movie and the city and your results will show what theaters and times your movie is playing.
I.e. movie: Finding Dory Harrisburg will show Harrisburg movie theaters that are screening Finding Dory
Weather:

This function shows the weather in a certain location.

If you want to see the forecast for the next few days, you can just ask Google.
I.e. weather: New York City, will deliver the weather in New York City, New York
Stocks:

This function shows stock prices of a specific company that you enter.

It's an easy way to see the numbers quickly.
I.e. stocks: Starbucks will show the daily stock prices of the Starbucks Company
Cache:

This function shows the most recent cache of a specified webpage.

Its helpful because it shows you what Google sees when it looks at your website with the date and time your site was last scanned. It also lets you view the text-only version of a site and its current source.
I.e. cache:abc.com will show you a snapshot of the last cached version of the website
Map:

This function allows you to get only map results for the specific location.

This is perfect when you don't want results about a specific place, but you do want directions.
I.e. maps: Burlington, VT will show you a map of the location
Bonus search operator functions

Equation

When you type an equation into Google, you'll automatically get the answer.

If you use the functions * for multiply, / for divide, - for subtract, and + for add, Google will calculate the result!
I.e. 8*72 will show 576
Tip calculator

When you're not sure how much you should give your server, type "tip calculator" into Google. After filling in a few number fields, you'll know just how much to pay your waiter!
I.e. bill price:x, tip percent:x
# Minute timer

When you don't have a timer on you, search an amount of time followed by "minute timer" into Google.

A timer will start and go off after the time you specified!
I.e. 30 minute timer will go off after a half hour
Stopwatch

Similar to the timer function, if you type "stopwatch" into Google, you'll be able to start and stop as you need it.
I.e. stopwatch
Sunrise: and Sunset:

The sunrise and sunset functions provide the time of sunrise and sundown for your specified location.
I.e. sunrise: Austin would give you the time that the sun rises in Austin, Texas on the day you search
Flight number

When you type in a flight number into Google, you'll automatically see where at the flight is in its journey, complete with a visual timeline!
I.e. HA 241 will show the status of Hawaiian Airlines flight 241
Sports team sports team

When you type the name of two different sports teams side by side, you'll automatically see the live or most recent score of their game.
I.e. Steelers Eagles will return the score of that football game
What functions do you use most?

Are there any other advanced search operators that you know and love?

Let us know in the comments below!

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Sam Selders Sam is a Google Analytics certified Internet Marketing Analyst at WebFX. She specializes in content marketing, SEO, and video marketing and creation, and also dabbles in social media marketing as well as graphic design. Sam has researched and written on over 150 topics for WebFX in the past 3 years. In her free time, she loves photography, being outdoors, fishing, and going on road trips. Somehow, she always ends up writing at the end of the day, though!

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Here at Burlington High School, I run a program called the Digital Publishing team, which is a full year course where students design graphics for the community and the school. The team consists of 11 students from grades 9-12 working together (often collaboratively) to come up with advanced design solutions. Some of these students have come to the class with much graphic design experience, and some have just began their journey into digital arts. I am so proud to teach these wonderful students who continue to impress and inspire me.

This year we are happy to announce that the Digital Publishing team is exhibiting their artwork in Burlington's Cambridge Street Gallery! The work will be on display for the month of May. Come check it out! In the meantime, a small number of designs can be viewed in the gallery below.

*Not pictured are our fabulous seniors who are out on internships this term.

BHS Alumna, Sam Marchese (Class of 2016), came to visit the fashion class and also spoke with some marketing students regarding her experience after high school. Sam recently spent the summer in New York doing costume work for an independent film that will soon be released. She showed photographs of her experiences being on set and filming with the crew. Sam talked about how she was given a budget for clothing, purchasing many items for all of the actors in the movie -- relying on their self-taken measurements.

While Sam was in high school here at BHS, she was an extremely successful fashion design student, taking fashion for three years. She also worked part time at the costume room in Burlington, helping out with costumes for the Burlington musicals and plays. She works in the costume department at Providence College currently.

Currently Sam is a junior at Providence College, majoring in Marketing, with a specialized minor in costume design. Sam hopes to be a professional costumer in the future. Now with experience in the film industry, she has more options for her career.

The Digital Publishing Team consists of a group of students in grades 9-12 working together to create and design artwork for the school, the Burlington community, and beyond. Under the instruction of their teacher, the class learns design principles, marketing and business techniques and runs much like a professional design agency. The Cambridge Street Gallery exhibit showcases this year's winners for a multitude of design projects including the BHS yearbook, the school musical, the BEF road race, and even a logo for a local company. Students listened to clients' artistic needs, and used their design skills to create the works in this show.

The slideshow below is comprised of this year's design winners. All of these designs are exhibited in the Cambridge Street Gallery at 123 Cambridge Street.

Poetic Ramblings and Spectrum partnered together to invite all teachers and students to participate in the creation of Rainbow Peace flags. Simultaneously celebrating diversity and acknowledging human connection, the rainbow peace flag symbolizes inclusiveness and represents peaceful dialogue over violence. Students and teachers came together to decorate a flag for each classroom. The event was well attended and the vibe was full of positivity and love.

​This event was our response to Natick, Massachusetts' mission, which was to give away Peace flags free to all residents to hang outside of their houses. You can find out more information about the Natick Peace Flag Project here.

A HUGE THANK YOU to Ms. Shannon Janovitz & Ms. Callie Graham and Poetic Ramblings, who had this wonderful idea and brought it to life. Also, thank you to Spectrum and our co-advisor Emily Bularzik who helped to plan and facilitate this excellent event.

" The rainbow peace flag is displayed throughout the world as a sign of diversity and inclusiveness. Now more than ever, it is important that we spread our message: to extend kindness and caring across national borders, with love that includes people of all sexualities, genders, abilities, religions, races, ages, and cultures, and to condemn acts of violence and hatred, embracing peaceful dialogue instead."

This summer students entering grades 6-8 for the 2017/2018 school year can enjoy time to create art and have some fun at the Burlington High School Art Department.
The art camp will consist of time to create, design, and explore art techniques. This includes drawing and painting. Students will use their imagination and observation skills to create one of-a-kind masterpieces. They will work collaboratively in a fun and relaxed atmosphere with many opportunities for self-expression.

​Tuition : $90 Instructor : Christina Chang Location: Burlington High School To enroll your child please complete the and tuition payment to Burlington Public Schools 123 Cambridge Street, Burlington, MA 01803. Attention: Rosemary DeSousa
Dates: Monday- Thursday, July 17-20, 2017
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Email: chang@bpsk12.org

Transportation: Arranged by parents
Space is limited - please register as soon as possible. Information Form
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It's that time of the year - summer is rolling in, college students are soon to become graduates, and prospective teachers are smiling as they receive their very first job offer! Teaching isn't easy - so to help make your first teaching job a successful one, here are 11 Tips for New Teachers.

1 - Get To Know Your Colleagues

There are a lot of benefits to having a strong relationship with the teachers you work with in your building. Not only will you be able to go to them with questions about managing student behavior, content questions, or even building logistics - but they can be an excellent source of support! Teaching is not an easy job. At the end of a tough day, it's nice to know that someone near you has your back!

2 - Get To Know The Other New Teachers

Even the most empathetic returning teacher forgets what a first day, first week, or first year feels like. If there are other new teachers in your building, put in effort to get to know them! Being able to talk openly about feeling lost, failures and successes, or just someone your own age, is extremely helpful during your first year of teaching. Teaching is a collaborative profession - this is the first step to strong collaboration.

3 - Get To Know Your Union (If you have one)

Unions can fill an important role in benefiting teachers throughout their career. If your district has a union representative, take some time to get to know them. Understanding what benefits a union offers, any current issues, and even the relationship between the union, other teachers, and administration is very important.

4 - Plan Your First Week

It is a good idea, even in the summer, to plan your first week. This way, as you enter the beginning days of the school year, you already have a plan in place, and can focus on the waterfall of other demanding information. The best part about your first week, is that it doesn't need to be focused on content! Take the time to establish your classroom procedures, get to know your students, and become comfortable with your classroom.

5 - Establish Classroom Greetings

As a new teacher, your students will be looking to see who they have as soon as they walk in the room. It's important to determine what these first moments will look like. Will you be in the hallway, greeting students as they come in? Will you be in the room, handing out an activity? Will you be sitting behind your desk on your phone (hopefully not). Establishing a positive greeting in the first moments of your year can fast track positive relationships with your students.

6 - Set Up Your Classroom Behavior Management System

Your school will probably have a behavior management system to follow. It's still important that you set up your own management system for your classroom! This allows you greater flexibility and agency with managing behaviors in your classroom. If a student is sent to the office for a behavior, and the next day they repeat the behavior, what then? Layer your responses to misbehavior in a hierarchy. Start with nonverbal reminders, verbal reminders, seating change, think away rooms or a reflection seat. Determine when to contact home, and when to move forward with the school's behavior management system.

The book I found most helpful as a first year teacher in this regard, was Harry Wong and Rosemary Wong's The First Days of School. The book gives explicit and pragmatic advice about how management and procedures might look on your very first day of school - answering many questions my university education left unanswered!

7 - Bathroom, Lunch, Drinking Fountain

Your first day and week will probably be hectic. Before your first day, find the nearest bathroom (and whether or not it is a staff bathroom). Find a drinking fountain. Find out where you will eat lunch, and where you can keep a lunch if you bring one from home. These simple tasks are often forgotten by new teachers, and make an exciting first day turn into a miserable one.

8 - Visualize and Practice

Before your first day, teach your first lesson to an empty classroom. It might seem silly, but it can help iron out some unforeseen wrinkles before you step in front of your students for the first time! Visualizing and practicing can help you recognize the cadence of your speech, pacing of the lesson, handwriting on the board, proximity to student seats, and much more! Try it - you will be pleasantly surprised!

9 - Go In Early (Or Stay Late)

This is going to be a controversial one - but I advocate new teachers to go in early or stay late, at least their first month of school. The reason I advocate for this, is because it is important that you set yourself up for success! As a new teacher, the extra time will be extremely valuable to make sure that when you leave school, you are ready and prepared for the next day. It will also help reduce feeling overwhelmed.

I also want to mention that this isn't something you should make a habit of. It's important that you are able to manage your job as an educator without letting it impact your personal life. Don't become an educational martyr.

10 - Learn From Your Mistakes

Don't be afraid to make mistakes! And more importantly - learn from them! All teachers, new and old, make mistakes. You will not be able to improve if you try something new, and you're not trying enough new things if your not making mistakes.

11 - Keep On Learning

Improving your teaching skills doesn't stop after your first week, month, or year. Keep on seeking other resources to figure out how to improve! This is especially important for new teachers, as a few small nuggets of wisdom can be the difference between an issue that was quickly solved, or a problem that carries on throughout the whole year.

Check out the I'm a New Teacher - Now What Guide! This guide covers what to do from the time you get your first job offer, to your very first day of school!

Don't Be Afraid To Ask

I want to end this article by letting all new teachers know - don't be afraid to ask! If you have a problem, a question, or an issue, reach out!

My twitter is linked here - or write in the comments below! I am passionate about helping and supporting new teachers. I look forward to our conversation!

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In 1969, a group of children sat down to a free breakfast before school. On the menu: chocolate milk, eggs, meat, cereal and fresh oranges. The scene wouldn't be out of place in a school cafeteria these days-but the federal government wasn't providing the food. Instead, breakfast was served thanks to the Black Panther Party.

At the time, the militant black nationalist party was vilified in the news media and feared by those intimidated by its message of Black Power and its commitment to ending police brutality and the subjugation of Black Americans. But for students eating breakfast, the Black Panthers' politics were less interesting than the meals they were providing.

"The children, many of whom had never eaten breakfast before the Panthers started their program," the Sun Reporter wrote, "think the Panthers are 'groovy' and 'very nice' for doing this for them."

The program may have been groovy, but its purpose was to fuel revolution by encouraging black people's survival. From 1969 through the early 1970s, the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for School Children Program fed tens of thousands of hungry kids. It was just one facet of a wealth of social programs created by the party-and it helped contribute to the existence of federal free breakfast programs today.

When Black Panther Party founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the party in 1966, their goal was to end police brutality in Oakland. But a faction of the Civil Rights Movement led by SNCC member Stokeley Carmichael began calling for the uplift and self-determination of African-Americans, and soon Black Power was part of their platform.

At first, the Black Panther Party primarily organized neighborhood police patrols that took advantage of open-carry laws, but over time its mandate expanded to include social programs, too.

Free Breakfast For School Children was one of the most effective. It began in January 1969 at an Episcopal church in Oakland, and within weeks it went from feeding a handful of kids to hundreds. The program was simple: party members and volunteers went to local grocery stores to solicit donations, consulted with nutritionists on healthful breakfast options for children, and prepared and served the food free of charge.

School officials immediately reported results in kids who had free breakfast before school. "The school principal came down and told us how different the children were," Ruth Beckford, a parishioner who helped with the program, said later. "They weren't falling asleep in class, they weren't crying with stomach cramps."

Soon, the program had been embraced by party outposts nationwide. At its peak, the Black Panther Party fed thousands of children per day in at least 45 programs. (Food wasn't the only part of the BPP's social programs; they expanded to cover everything from free medical clinics to community ambulance services and legal clinics.)

For the party, it was an opportunity to counter its increasingly negative image in the public consciousness-an image of intimidating Afroed Black men holding guns-while addressing a critical community need. "I mean, nobody can argue with free grits," said filmmaker Roger Guenveur Smith in A Huey P. Newton Story, a 2001 film in which he portrays Newton.

Free food seemed relatively innocuous, but not to FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, who loathed the Black Panther Party and declared war against them in 1969. He called the program "potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for," and gave carte blanche to law enforcement to destroy it.

The results were swift and devastating. FBI agents went door-to-door in cities like Richmond, Virginia, telling parents that BPP members would teach their children racism. In San Francisco, writes historian Franziska Meister, parents were told the food was infected with venereal disease; sites in Oakland and Baltimore were raided by officers who harassed BPP members in front of terrified children, and participating children were photographed by Chicago police.

"The night before [the first breakfast program in Chicago] was supposed to open," a female Panther told historian Nik Heynan, "the Chicago police broke into the church and mashed up all the food and urinated on it."

Ultimately, these and other efforts to destroy the Black Panthers broke up the program. In the end, though, the public visibility of the Panthers' breakfast programs put pressure on political leaders to feed children before school. The result of thousands of American children becoming accustomed to free breakfast, former party member Norma Amour Mtume told Eater, was the government expanded its own school food programs.

Though the USDA had piloted free breakfast efforts since the mid 1960s, the program only took off in the early 1970s-right around the time the Black Panthers' programs were dismantled. In 1975, the School Breakfast Program was permanently authorized. Today, it helps feed over 14.57 million children before school-and without the radical actions of the Black Panthers, it may never have happened.

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In 1969, a group of children sat down to a free breakfast before school. On the menu: chocolate milk, eggs, meat, cereal and fresh oranges. The scene wouldn't be out of place in a school cafeteria these days-but the federal government wasn't providing the food. Instead, breakfast was served thanks to the Black Panther Party.

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Keith Haring was everywhere in the 1980s. All over the walls of the New York subway, all over T-shirts, all over posters, all over dresses and all over Grace Jones's body. You could wear him on your lapel. He was there when you needed him and there when you didn't. He was in all the galleries and nightclubs and he invaded your house. He was all over MTV and he wanted to be all over the Berlin Wall, a section of which he painted. Haring was joyous, riotous, funny and angry, this gawky skinny kid with the glasses and a Sharpie pen. And then he was gone, dead at 31 from Aids-related illness in 1990.

Now he fills the top floor of Tate Liverpool and the gallery shop. His little bouncy figures climb the columns in the cafe. With his outlined boing-boing beings and miraculous babies, his barking dogs and his three-eyed faces, his boys in heat and his general malarkeys, he took potshots at God, sexual repression, America's culture of guns and the dollar, and much besides.

There was more to Haring than his ubiquitous cartoons, and this travelling exhibition (it goes to Brussels and Essen), mounted with the co-operation of the artist's estate, unpacks his work from its early beginnings to his outspoken responses to the Aids crisis. There are videos of early student performance works and projected images of the 80s New York club scene. Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Verlaine and Robert Mapplethorpe pass through, along with all the denizens of the downtown dark.

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Heaving with malevolence ... Untitled, 1983. Photograph: Krause, Johansen/© Keith Haring Foundation

And always there were the drawings, from early, art-school abstractions and filmed performances, drawings made in public on the subway (for Haring, drawing was a kind of performance art) and drawings often used as posters, protesting against apartheid, railing against religious intolerance and bigotry, homophobia and racism. He celebrated Coming Out Day and had a chirpy cartoon condom promote safe sex.

Haring made a great deal out of what appears an extremely limited lexicon of forms and a basic, though singular, style. The thick, simplified line, the speed and certainty of his one-shot drawing approach, wouldn't seem to offer much leeway. But the show is full of variety, for one thing in the way Haring kept complicating and developing his bestiary. He presented his painted drawings in a UV-lit gallery basement, against walls striped red and yellow, with blasting music. He drew stories and parables, cheeky same-sex couplings, almost medieval scenes of torture, torments, monsters, Bosch-like penis-beings, choking cockerels, angels and maggots, flying skulls and tiny humans ripped apart.

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A recreation of Haring's UV-lit gallery basement. Photograph: © Mark McNulty

His later work (in a career lasting barely a decade) teems with life and death, pluggings and unpluggings, gods and demons. What began with wry smiles, as a buoyant, seemingly benign art, ended up heaving with malevolence. Going through the show I felt like Dante being led into the circles of hell by Mickey Mouse. Walking past walls covered in club flyers, seeing footage of Haring handcuffed by a transport cop for drawing on the subway, passing through the Mudd Club and Club 57, then marching on Washington to protest government inaction on Aids. In the 80s, Haring wrote the writing on the wall: Crack is Wack, Ignorance = Fear and Silence = Death. He drew flying saucers training their beams on the city, and a prone body spewing a monstrous cloud of chaos into the sky.

The modern apocalypse is no less filled with demons as any medieval vision of the end. For a gay man in the 80s, the end was all too present and personal. Through all this, Haring's art - and it was art of a high order when seen in full - never lost its grip. Making work increasingly terrible and apocalyptic in its own visions, he somehow still manages to exhilarate us through it all. As much as Haring was an artist of his time - he seems almost to typify it - the show feels horribly prescient. Same end, different apocalypse.

Keith Haring is at Tate Liverpool from 14 June to 10 November.

This article was amended on 13 June 2019 to correct the name of Club 57

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Keith Haring review - 'Like being led round hell by Mickey Mouse'

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Keith Haring was everywhere in the 1980s. All over the walls of the New York subway, all over T-shirts, all over posters, all over dresses and all over Grace Jones's body. You could wear him on your lapel. He was there when you needed him and there when you didn't.

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It's official. Humans are loving the humble podcast. As of April 2019 there are over 700,000 of them, which is up a staggering 150,00 from 2018*. And it turns out that teachers are among the most prolific and talented producers. So here is teaglo 's guide to 12 of the best podcasts for teachers.

'Powerful, practical ways to be a more remarkable teacher, today.'

The 10 Minute Teacher podcast hosts informal but informative interviews with amazing teachers and educational influencers. Each episode features tips, advice, and inspiration, from how to progress your career, to motivating students in the classroom.

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"Inspiring creativity, fostering a creative habit, just for the love of creativity."

Both a teacher and writer, Luke talks passionately about his own experiences interspersed with nuggets of wisdom for anyone looking to kick start their own creative crusade.

Although this started out as a maths focused podcast, it now covers issues that appeal to teachers of all subjects and ages. Craig has interviewed some impressive guests including Becky Allen (of TeacherTapp fame), and Alex Quigley (Author of 'Closing the vocabulary gap')

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Don't know which episode to start with? We recommend Slice of Advice.

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Angela is a National Board Certified Teacher with an MA in Curriculum and Instruction. She has 11 years of classroom experience and over a decade as an instructional coach. Truth for Teachers is consistently ranked in the top 10 K-12 podcasts on iTunes. She releases a new episode every Sunday to energise educators for the week ahead.

Expert interviews, real-world stories, and provocative insights in a fast-paced, interview-style, led by educational thought leaders Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon.

This interview with the head of Avenue School, and his vision for a Truly Global School is a good place to start.

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OK, so this podcast is hosted by the editors at EdSurge, so it's not technically produced by teachers. But we love their Teachable Moments series - about why teachers teach. This is a thought provoking one where educators share stories about learning from and understanding students.

Longtime teacher and bestselling author, Mark Barnes, offers up solutions to some of the biggest issues teachers face, in brief, no-nonsense slugs. Finding Balance as a Teacher is a great place to jump in.

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It's official. Humans are loving the humble podcast. As of April 2019 there are over 700,000 of them, which is up a staggering 150,00 from 2018*. And it turns out that teachers are among the most prolific and talented producers. So here is teaglo 's guide to 12 of the best podcasts for teachers.

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I am about to start my 7th year as a teacher, and 1 of the key reasons I love it, is that it is different every day. While the job is challenging at times, it is never boring.

I currently teach at a private international school in Mexico City, and I worked at a public school in South Carolina for four years before this. I have learned so much from both of these experiences, and while there were some similarities, there were also great differences. So here are some things that I wish I had known before going to teach abroad.

1. Hiring for international schools starts much earlier than in the US.

I started applying for jobs in early January for the next school year, but quickly found that many international schools start hiring in November, as visas can take time. So be prepared.

2. The buzzwords will be different

In the US I was an accomplished teacher who was up to date on what was happening in education. While a lot of this translated into the international experience (best practices are still considered best practices by most schools), I was not as familiar with IB or IGCSE curriculums as I would have liked to be. If you haven't taught these curriculums before don't worry; just do your research and familiarise yourself with the basic philosophies before your interview.

3. Be prepared for different interview questions, and don't be shy to ask a few of your own.

Because you are moving to another country the school may get a little more personal than you expect. They will likely ask about your family situation (are you moving with a spouse or children?). They may ask about your mental health specifically; this is more common in Asian schools where mental health care may be more difficult to access. They may ask you how you plan to deal with any culture shock, or teaching students from a different background from your own. How will you deal with the language barrier? These are all good questions to consider personally before you decide you want to take a job abroad.

The interview is also your opportunity to ask important questions. Gather information about what matters to you and your own teaching practice. Find out what resources the school has. What professional development does the school offer? How will you be evaluated as a teacher? What is the mission of the school? Is the school run by the owner, a board, the parents? Is the school for profit or nonprofit? Do students have to take an entrance exam to be admitted? How does the school handle behavior issues? All of these questions can give you some insight into the culture of the school and host nation, and if it is going to be a good fit for you personally and professionally.

4. You can negotiate your contract

In the US if you are working for a public school they tend to have a transparent pay scale that is based on your experience and your qualifications/degrees. This is not the case in most private international schools. Everything is negotiable to some degree, from the amount of contact hours (teaching hours) that you have with the students, to your pay, to housing and benefits. This will depend on your school, but overall most schools are willing to negotiate. Do some research on the school and what they have paid teachers in similar positions in the past, and the cost of living in the area. Whatever you end up negotiating make sure you have it in writing and signed by the school before you leave your current job.

5. There is a big difference between traveling and living in another country.

I had already spent time travelling in the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa before I took my job teaching abroad, so I thought I would adapt to my new environment pretty quickly. However, there is a big difference between traveling in another country and living in another country. Be prepared to feel like an adult baby for the first 6 months in your new home. Everything will be new, exciting, terrifying, and overwhelming all at the same time. However, after a few months, you will start to settle in and get the hang of things and enjoy the experience. I have learned so much in the past two years about myself, the city and my curriculum. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything.

If you are ready to make a change in your life then going to teach abroad can be a great way to do that. Make a list of things you are looking for in a job and try hard to stick to it. There are some great schools out there just waiting for an adventurous teacher.

Taylor is entering her 7th year of teaching. She currently teaches IB Psychology and Theory of Knowledge in a private international school in Mexico City.
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I am about to start my 7th year as a teacher, and 1 of the key reasons I love it, is that it is different every day. While the job is challenging at times, it is never boring.

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Materials:

Brushes - Below are the brushes I used. I used the large flat brushes to blend the different blues on the background together.

Oil Paint - If you are looking to buy an oil paint set, I would recommend getting a Daler Rowney set. This brand is my favourite brand to use.

Palette Knife

Turpentine - You don't have to use expensive virgin turpentine. I usually just buy a 5 litre can at the hardware store. The reason why artists use virgin turpentine is because it makes the colours appear brighter, but the difference is so subtle that it isn't really worth it. Once you are done with painting, put a lid on your turpentine (for safety reasons). You can then use it a second time since the pigments all sink to the bottom of the jar.

Acrylic Paint - Daler Rowney System 3 paints are highly recommended.

Tissue paper - I prefer using tissue paper over a towel. I find a towel gets dirty too quickly when working with a palette knife. Oil paint is also difficult to wash out (and you can't put it in the washing machine - I did this once and my clothes smelt of turpentine for weeks after that).

Canvas - I used a 35×35 cm canvas

Pencil and eraser for planning

Paint Palettes - You will need two, one for acrylic paint and one for oil paint. You don't need to buy pricey palettes if you don't have one. Instead, you can use an old tray or plate. One trick I like to use in order to make the cleaning process a bit easier is to cover the entire tray in cling wrap. Once you're done with your painting, you only need to cut the cling wrap off and your tray is ready to use next time you paint.

Draw your ice cream

Start off by making a rough sketch of your ice cream. Here I used a simple HB pencil, but I would suggest that you rather start your planning with coloured pencils, since this is easier to cover with paint than an HB pencil. For this painting, though, It does not really matter, since we will be applying thick paint later on.

Block out the Three Main Tones

Even though we are creating an oil painting, I find that it is better to start any oil painting with a layer of acrylic paint first. I do this, because acrylic paint dries much faster than oil paint, so you can start painting your second layer within minutes.

Remember, oil paint can go on top of acrylic paint, but we can never add acrylic paint on top of oil paint, because the paint will then start to peel of the canvas.

As you can see here, there is very little detail painted and the painting looks a bit dull. This is ok, since this step is just to map out all the dark, medium and light tones for yourself to make it easier later.

To do this, look for the darkest tone first. Once you've covered the darkest tone, go on to the lightest and paint them white. It will then be easier to fill in the blank spaces on your ice cream with a medium tone.

You can use a brush to do this, since you have more control over the brush than the palette knives.

Paint your background with Acrylic Paint

Choose how you would like for your background to look. Since we are using acrylic, you can experiment a little and easily change it or adjust it within minutes after it dries. I decided to go for a very smooth and plain background. I did this because the contrast between the rough palette knife paint on the ice cream and the smooth background will make the ice cream stand out more.

Start painting the background in Oil

Once your first layer of paint is completely dry, it is time to start painting in oil! You'll find that this second layer of paint will really make the colour a lot more vibrant.

I started off by giving the background a second layer with oil paint. So you'll see here that I did not mind going a bit over the edges of the ice cream, since it will be easy to cover later. My main focus here was just to get the gradient background looking as smooth as possible.

You will find that the oil paint will be a lot easier to work with when it comes to blending, since you can really take your time with this medium.

Whip out your palette knife!

You can now start by painting the ice cream with your palette knife and oil paint. Oil paint is the best medium for this, since the consistency of the paint is nice and thick so it is easier to work with than acrylic in this case. But you can add other mediums to acrylic to achieve this if you do not want to work with oil paint.

Remember that it is important to enjoy the process and to not have a very specific image in your head for the end product. Palette knife paintings also tend to look a lot better when you don't try to control it too much, since your playfulness will translate through the paint. In other words, if you try to control it too much and get stressed out about what it looks like, it will show in the painting.

How to start

You can start off with your knife the same way you started the painting; by blotting out the dark, medium and light tones.

The Palette Knife angle

The key thing you need to remember about palette knife painting is that the angle of your knife makes a big difference in the outcome of the mark on your painting.

Have a look at how I am applying the paint here. I am only adding paint on the tip of the knife since i want to make a smaller stroke for a highlight. I am also holding the knife at an angle, leaning slightly to the right and forward (with the back of the knife upward and the tip on the canvas)

how hard you should you press on the canvas with your palette knife

If you really want to add a lot of thick paint (this is also called impasto painting) to your canvas, it is important not to press on your canvas too hard, since this will make the paint spread out too much.

You can see it as that you are sculpting with the paint, since you don't want it to be the same thickness everywhere. Perhaps you could try to add thicker paint to the lightest areas of your painting. This way, there will be a slight shadow casted by the paint on your darker areas, since it doesn't stick out as much.

Use your paint brushes for the smaller areas

Just because you are creating a painting with a palette knife, doesn't mean you can't use a brush every now and then, especially in those smaller areas, like the shadow at the top of the ice cream cone.

You can then continue to work over this in some areas with a palette knife.

Don't be afraid to scratch into your painting with your knife for texture

Use a towel or tissues to wipe all the paint off your palette knife before doing this. As you can see here, I scratched some lines and wrote on the cone with the palette knife.

Tie all your strokes together

Before doing this, clean your knife with some tissue. You can then make larger swoops over some areas you painted, going in the direction of the lines your ice cream is creating. This will slightly mix the paint in some areas and give you some more medium tones.

You then need to continue on top of this with some more bold palette knife strokes which you won't blend in.

Have a look here at the medium tones created on the area circled here.

Rounding off

Finish off your painting by adding the very lightest areas of your ice cream.

Aaaand you're done!

I really hope enjoyed painting with palette knifes!

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This episode is a really important one. I'm going to introduce to you guys the basic elements that make up any picture.

We see everything around us in 3d. Then we try to draw a 3d world on a 2 dimensional surface. Of course drawing an actual 3d world is impossible on paper. We have to learn to create the Illusion of depth. Any picture can be broken down into 4 elements to create that illusion of form. It's like the periodic table of elements for artists. And luckily for us, it's a much smaller table.

We can use these elements to show form and depth if we are realists or representational artists, but it's not limited to just showing form. picture, anything you can see can be broken down into these elements. An abstract watercolor painting, a realistic portrait drawing, a photograph of a sunset, anything that you can see can be described with Shape, Edge, Value, and Color. I would even argue that there are only 3 major elements. Shape, edge, and color. Because value is just a sub-element of color. But value is so important that artists have separated it as its own thing. Also, when we're drawing, we're usually drawing in black and white. And in a black and white drawing value is the only visible part of the color. So, we put aside the concept of color, and just say value. When we start painting, we introduce the other two sub-elements of color - hue and chroma.

Let's go over these elements one by one, starting with Shape.

Shape

Shape is a concept that's familiar to most of us. It's the elements we use to draw as kids. It's the area that something takes up. It's the outline, or the contour of all the pieces in the drawing. But it's not limited to just the outline of the big elements. The smaller parts also have specific shapes.

For the early stages of a drawing you want to develop your ability to simplify a shape. This is important so that you can focus on the composition and the breakdown of the big picture. Getting distracted by the smaller details too early, can hurt you in the long run. Working big to small is usually a good idea.

When simplifying, think about geometric shapes - circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, crescents and so on.. These are simple shapes as opposed to complex organic shapes. For example this complex shape of a leaf can be simplified in the first stage of the drawing and then the details can be found in the later stages.

Shape is the most important element to convey the identity of an object. These two shapes are very different and symbolize two very different things. They are not 3 dimensional, but its still very obvious what they represent, just by looking at the shape. That's why "shape design" is such an important skill to practice and develop. Simply put, shape design is making your shapes look good. It's a bit arbitrary, but you know it when you see it.

You could say that shape A is better than shape B because it's cleaner and more interesting. It does a better job of getting the point across and doing so in a more interesting way.

Color

Now let's move on to color. I'll go into more depth on color theory later, since it's a very complex topic and deserves it's own episode or even a whole series of episodes. Right now, I'll just go over the basics.

Color has 3 subcategories. The hue, the chroma, and the value. For example, this color has a purple hue, a number 8 value, and a medium chroma.

Hue

Hue is what we typically refer to when we say color. Yellow, orange, red, blue, green - these are all hues. Your traditional color wheel is an arrangement of hues.. If you shine a light through a prism, it will break up the light and reveal the color spectrum. The same colors as the rainbow. And the same colors as the color wheel.

The terms warm and cool are used to describe the two sides of the color wheel if you cut it in half. The warm family shares orange as a common color and the cool family shares blue as a common color. Think of fire being warm and ice being cool.

Chroma

Chroma refers to how grey or how pure the color is. On one end are the high chroma colors that you'll see in the rainbow, and on the other end are the low chroma greys with a gradual transition.

In some color wheels you'll have the high chroma colors on the outside with a gradation towards grey in the center. You'll often hear people using the term "neutralizing" a color. This just means lowering the chroma and bringing it closer to grey. There's two ways you can do that. The first is just adding grey to it. As you'd expect this will bring it closer to grey. The other way is to add its complement, or the color across from it on the color wheel. Mixing two complimentary colors will result in the color in between them. Half and half will theoretically make grey. Now, pigment isn't perfect.. you usually won't get that exactly perfect grey. But you'll definitely bring it closer to grey. Depending on the ratio you mix, will result in a color somewhere in between the two. If you add just a little bit of green to red, you'll still have a red, just a lower chroma version.

Value

Value is how light or dark the color is. There is an infinite amount of values, but most artists like to think of a finite scale, zero to ten. It's more manageable that way and it makes it a lot easier to communicate. A teacher might say, make that shape one value darker. And you'll know roughly how much 1 value is.

Drawing with charcoal we don't use color, since everything is grey scale. Or a better way to put that is, we don't use hue and chroma, the only element of color that we see is value. So, many artists have separated value as its own element and say its more important than the other elements of color. You can have a very beautiful drawing without using color - just grey-scale you don't need it to draw a representation of what you're looking at. You don't need it to show form and depth. I think it's wise to practice drawing without color as a beginner, since that's one less ball you have to juggle as you're learning. Once you get the hang of values, then add the colors, and go wild.

But, I don't want to make it seem like color isn't important. It is! Colors are beautiful and quite often its what will catch the eye of someone looking at your artwork. It could set off an emotional response to a piece of art, that a gray scale drawing can't do. But as the artist you must understand, that if you don't get the values right, the rest of the color won't look right. Focus on accuracy of values, and that will allow you to experiment and bend your colors.

That's your color basics 101, maybe not even 101. More like 1-0-half...

Edge

Edge is the transition between two shapes. It doesn't have to be an edge of a volume. The shapes within the volume have edges too.

The types of edges range from sharp to extremely soft, with an infinite amount in between. But to simplify it we've come up with 4 types of edges: sharp, firm, soft, and lost.

1. A sharp edge is a very sudden transition between 2 shapes. It's sharp like a razor blade. There is no transition, its a sudden change.

2. A firm edge is almost hard, but it has a very small gradation to it. Think of these as corners that have a bevel or rounded corner. On a figure you'll typically see firm edges on tendons and joints.

3. A soft edge is a very smooth transition between 2 shapes. You'll see a longer gradation. Soft edges are like clouds or baby butts.

4. A lost edge is one that is so soft, that you can't see it anymore. It's frequently used in areas where the values of two forms are close together and a really soft edge would merge the two volumes together.

Putting it all together

Every time you're drawing or painting and you look at your reference, you need to have an intuitive checklist of elements to identify. What's the shape, color, and edge? And within color, what's the value, hue, and chroma? To make this intuitive you have to train your brain by intentionally thinking about these things while you're analyzing the subject. Eventually you don't have to force it anymore, it becomes part of your observation process.

For example as you look at this clementine and you observe the shadow, you ask yourself:

1. what is the shape? is it circular, rectangular, triangular etc. In this case, its a crescent if you simplify it.

2. What is the value on a scale of 0-10? And more importantly what is the value in relationship to all the other values in the picture? The occlusion in the cast shadow, is the darkest part of the picture. If you want your picture to have the full range of values, from 0-10, you have to make it a value 0. The top part of the shadow on the clementine is about 1 value lighter than under the clementine The reflected light below is another 1 to 2 values lighter. Instead of the full value range of 0-10, you can choose to go for a narrower value range, say 3-7. The darkest part would be a 3 and the highlight would be a 7. And accommodate the other values to fit within that range. It's the relationships between all the values in the picture that really matter.

3. The next question is, what is the hue? Even though it's an orange clementine, not all the colors on it are orange. I'm seeing a transition from orange on the light side, to a redder hue on the shadow side.

4. What is the chroma? Ehh, it's somewhere in the middle, probably a little closer to the high chroma side..

5. And the edge is firm on the left side of the shadow and softer on the right (at the terminator).

The ability to see and properly identify all these elements is a skill, its a sense that you need to develop. At first you will struggle to see the subtleties , but just as a musician tunes her ears to hear notes and compose the notes into a symphony, you too can develop your ability to see these subtleties and view the world through an artist's eye. As with most things, it's about repetition through practice.

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The Basic Elements - Shape, Value, Color, Edge

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This episode is a really important one. I'm going to introduce to you guys the basic elements that make up any picture. We see everything around us in 3d. Then we try to draw a 3d world on a 2 dimensional surface. Of course drawing an actual 3d world is impossible on paper.

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Whiteboard - a web based whiteboard. Make diagrams and visuals for meetings or classroom presentations.

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A simple web based whiteboard app to make your diagrams and visual ideas come to life. add your own art, pictures and photos then move them around on the screen to captivate your audience.

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myHomework Student Planner & Digital Hall Pass System

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myHomework is an online student planner with Digital Hall Passes, Flex Period Management, Rewards Points in a complete planner system.

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Holiday Calendar (United States) with Observances & Today

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Monthly Calendar with United States Holidays showing Today, Observances, festive days and religious holidays (Christian, Chatholic, Jewish & Muslim) for 2019.

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Draw something that represents the day to you.

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Planbook - The Leader in Lesson Planning

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With over one million teachers and one billion lessons, Planbook is the established leader in online lesson planning!

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Free Online Video Editor | Interactive Video | WeVideo

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The #1 video editor for schools, businesses, and solopreneurs. Create professional-looking multimedia projects with powerful, easy-to-use tools. Try free today!

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Animation & Drawing by Do Ink is the fun, creative way to make animations on your iPad. The app was designed to be easy for beginners and young animators, but with powerful tools for creating advanced animations. Use the drawing editor to create vector artwork and frame-by-frame (flip book) animations. Use the composition editor to combine your artwork - along with props from the Do Ink prop library - into more complex and sophisticated scenes. Save to the camera roll, then share your creations with friends, classmates, or the world!

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Do Ink provides Creativity Apps -Green Screen by Do Ink and Animation and Drawing by Do Ink for students to show what they know in education.

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Kumpulan Berita Tentang Judi Online Terkini yang bisa anda nikmati setiap hari.

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English (& other language) Pronunciation using YouTube

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English (& other language) Pronunciation using YouTube

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When words sound different in isolation vs. in a sentence, look up the pronunciation first in a dictionary, then use https://youglish.com

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Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. Get started for free!

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rlist: 2019 creative commons: what students need to know when using "free" materials on the internet

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students often make use of free materials and resources on the internet for school projects and personal online websites. often

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they may mix different online materials to derive new content and share the derived works with friends. this guide shares with students what they need to know about creative commons licenses when using free online resources created by others and when sharing works created by the students.

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RList: 2019 Creative Commons: What students need to know when using "free" materials on the Internet

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Students often make use of free materials and resources on the Internet for school projects and personal online websites. Often, they may mix different online materials to derive new content and share the derived works with friends.

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Watch mesmerizing GIF by @amazingscallion on Gfycat. Discover more related GIFs on Gfycat

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Watch Awesome Street Art GIF on Gfycat. Discover more related GIFs on Gfycat

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The Zinn Education Project is my compass in a sea of corporate textbooks, packaged common core curriculum and standardized testing. My entire curriculum is based on lessons that can be found on the Zinn Education Project.

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From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the stakes are high. It is critical that students learn about the fight for voting rights, past and present.

Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born...

Teaching About the Violence in Palestine and Israel...

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

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Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

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Is Sashiko Art? | The origin of Sashiko as Folk Art | Upcycle Stitches

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A question pop up in my mind at the end of 2018. Is Sashiko Art? This is Atsushi's journey to find out what Sashiko really is.

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In this statement, GLSEN's National Student Council condemns police brutality and calls for greater support for Black lives

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Get involved and join your community, local, or state GLSEN chapter

GLSEN Chapters create LGBTQ-inclusive schools. Community-led chapters offer teacher trainings, student support, community outreach, and more.

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In this statement, GLSEN's National Student Council condemns police brutality and calls for greater support for Black lives Read the Statement GLSEN Chapters create LGBTQ-inclusive schools. Community-led chapters offer teacher trainings, student support, community outreach, and more. Research, Reports, and Briefs Research, Reports, and Briefs Research, Reports, and Briefs

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Fun and engaging social-emotional learning (SEL) resources are a must for your classroom.

Teach your students positive character traits and social skills they'll use for the rest of their lives.

SEL resources build emotional intelligence to help kids understand their feelings to control anger and reduce stress and anxiety.

Kindness activities teach positive character traits that build friendships based on caring and respect.

Positive affirmations and mindfulness create inner peace and the confidence to try new things.
Stop endlessly searching for engaging ways to foster warm connections in your classroom.
Check out our SEL resources HERE.
SEL, kindness, and mindfulness help students succeed at school and in life. They are incredible classroom management tools that build character traits, social awareness, and confidence!

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Welcome To Ripple Kindness Project | Ripple Kindness Project

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SEL resources build emotional intelligence to help kids understand their feelings to control anger and reduce stress and anxiety. Kindness activities teach positive character traits that build friendships based on caring and respect. Positive affirmations and mindfulness create inner peace and the confidence to try new things.

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This Guy Uses Ordinary Objects to Complete his Artwork

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I've rewritten this a few times and I give it to the new teachers at my school if they ask. Some of it is repetitious (I obviously care about insoles), but it's a good start.

1. Insoles. Good insoles. Not the ones from Walmart. You'll be on your feet all day and kids will be TRYING to burn you down- 'oh, shit, Pavo made that new fucker cry and shit!' Yeah, no. You can take a nap after school, but until the bell rings, you are alert, you are using physical proximity to assure attention and compliance to your rules and YOUR FEET DON'T HURT. Go to REI and get Softsoles, the kind you bake in the oven. $40 and they'll outlast the shoes. Can't afford that? Bring extra shoes and change them at lunch.

2. Full change of clothes in your closet or cabinet, from the skin out. Kids get sick, pens explode, coffee spills. Rather than have the smart-ass in each period ask loudly 'Hey, uh, have a little accident there?'- no. You have your clean shirt, you change and look great. Have extra t-shirts in case a kid needs one after an accident; don't expect it back.

3. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. THIS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. IT CHANGED MINE. For ten weeks, just eliminate sarcasm from your teaching. Heck, just try to get it out of your life.

Sarcastic teacher: (rolling her eyes) 'Okay, so this is a really important test that somebody sent to us from some office and we really ought to do our best, m'kay? (deep sigh) Me: 'Someone wants to compare this class to the other kids in the district. If we beat them, I swear on a stack of whatevers that I'll bake brownies AND wear a silly bow tie for a week.' And then I explain.

And yeah, maybe it is a bullshit test and maybe it doesn't jibe with what we're studying. So what? Get it done and move on. And if they do beat the other kids, there's me in my kitchen, making a ton of brownies, and extras for security and the office staff.

Sarcastic teacher after getting wrong answer: 'Gee, Billy, maybe you should try waking up BEFORE you come to school (snort, guffaw, snort).

Me after getting a wrong (but the kid's trying) answer: 'Billy, that's the way to chase it! And I see what you're getting at. Maybe the correct answer is between that and what I've got, which is...'

Sarcasm is acid. In the rules I pass out on the first day, it says: "Sarcasm is the coward's road." It's based on lies- you are literally saying THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE. Think about that. Why would you do that??? Isn't what you really believe more valuable than a lie? Why do we use sarcasm? We use it because we are afraid. We are afraid that what we mean and think and believe will sound weak and uncool and just...sit there. No! You say what you mean and you mean what you say, without hurting anybody, without belittling anybody. If a kid is sarcastic with me, we talk about it after class on HIS time. If he did it to try to stop the class or hurt my feelings, he is given a clear chance to apologize. If I am sarcastic with one of them, I apologize in front of the class, I mean it and I'll probably give the kid some extra credit tickets.

I strive to be the one adult in that kid's life who isn't sarcastic, who really says what I think and believe.

Part 2

So, it's October, you're a new teacher or student teaching, been there for a little over a month. And you are sick of it. And you are seriously thinking about leaving, you just don't want to be a teacher anymore.

I feel your pain. I cannot know your individual trials and tribulations. Every classroom, every class is unique. I teach English in Los Angeles; not in the heart of 'the ghetto' but in East L.A. We have our problems; to put it in perspective, I think 83% of our kids qualify for free lunch and breakfast programs, an indicator of severe poverty. I am no expert and you can take my words with several containers of grains of salt. What I want to say to you is this: A lot of you (student teachers) have shite mentors; they take the extra $500 a year to be a 'mentor', then they sit in your room, nod slowly while you cry, then fucking walk away, shaking their heads. Some are good, but mine (both of them) did it for the money plain and simple They did more harm then good with me. What can you learn from this? Two things: first, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING THAT LAZY SACK OF SHIT TELLS YOU. They come in for their weekly 'mentoring session'? You freakin' sit there, bushy-tailed and taking verbatim notes. VERBATIM; they cough, they fart, you write that down. Try recording them. Set up a video camera on a tripod and put THAT in their face. Second, FIND THE PERSON WHO SHOULD BE MENTORING YOU. Find the old lonely guy in your department, the shop teacher who never has to call Security, the mousy little Spanish teacher whose students throw a birthday party for her like she's their mother. Then, FIND OUT WHAT THEY LIKE AND GIVE IT TO THEM. While they eat, drink or smoke it, LISTEN. The guy I learned from loved cigars. I bought them, we smoked them and I listened. Eleven years later, here I am, still breathing and everything.

Some of you have problems keeping up with the grading. You have to grade 200, 300 writing assignments a week, no time for exercise, no time for sexy, just grade grade grade. Why would you do that? Seriously, do you think that sheer output is the secret to improvement? Think about this and if it'll get you in trouble, forget I said anything, okay? But right now, just CONSIDER...cutting the number of assignments in half. Half. Slow the hell down. Act like a pot-smoker; savor the good assignments and throw them up on the projector, 'oh, everyone look at what Bernice did with her sentence structure, see how she varied her subjects?' Talk about the best and the worst (without rancor!) and adjust what they're doing. Their basic skills are bad, their fundamentals suck? How is that your fault? Hey, their parents sent you the best kids they had. If the parents hadn't spent years sloughing off their duties and had been good parents, their kids would be reading and writing at grade level. Are they? No? Huh. Well, whose fault is that? And yeah, you're the one who has to do something about it- and you CAN and you WILL do something about it. Those kids are going to improve! Unless they aggressively try to reject or stop what you're doing (and we'll get to that next time), they are going to improve. You can make their lives better AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORK YOURSELF TO DEATH DOING IT.

YOU CANNOT GET TO HEAVEN BY CLIMBING ALL THE RED PENS YOU'LL USE UP GRADING.

Other things to think about: -your feet. You need them. Forget about style or being cool. Get the most comfortable shoes you can find. I like Doc Martens, but the soft kind; I call them 'my old man shoes.' Get good supportive insoles. I like the Softsole ones sold at REI. You bake them in the oven, stand on them for a few minutes while they form around your feet and they last a long time. Whenever you can, stretch out- get a couch in your room if you can and lie on it during lunch. Don't let anyone catch you doing this...

-Don't forget to stand up straight. We are often teaching very small people. We bend over to talk to them, over and over again every day. pretty soon, our spines are as crooked as shrimp. Set a timer on your phone to vibrate every fifteen minutes, that'll remind you to stand up straight.

-Does your printer suck? Does your administration hate to give you new printer cartridges? Go to Cobra Ink Systems in Tennessee and get a CIS printer. Big, whopping tanks of ink you can refill yourself from giant bottles and you will be able to print anything without worrying about it. Have the guy at CIS set it up and test it before he ships it. He is an ace and a really nice guy. Mine runs like a champ. They start around $170. Worth it. Same idea for refillable dry-erase markers. Not much more expensive than the regualr kind and Amazon sells the refill ink.

-Food and coffee. First off, STAY OUT OF THE LUNCH ROOM. It's a cesspool of gossip and depression. Find people to eat lunch with and invite them to sit on your couch! Get a fridge for your room and fill it with healthy, non-junk food. I am on a keto diet most of the time, so it's got meat, tuna salad, cheese, cream for my coffee, water and diet soda. Bring a bunch in at a time so you never get tempted to eat junk. Coffee? I like iced coffee, so I make 32 ounces the night before and freeze it over night with my wallet on top of it in the freezer. I've never left my wallet or my coffee at home! Put your keys on your lunch bag in the fridge at home- bet you'll remember to get them before you go. Microwave? I don't have one, but I think about it every now and then.

-Keep a full change of clothes, something simple, in the closet at work. Yes, even underwear and maybe a towel. I've never done it, but other teachers have, uh, really messed themselves up at school. Sucks to have to drive home with barf or worse on your shirt...

Part 3

TO BUY: keep it simple, especially with clothes. I wear SoftSole insoles (from REI) every day and my feet don't hurt. Whatever works for you, but don't skimp on your feet or legs. Dress as you would for a job interview for the first month or so, then see if others are wearing jeans or sandals or T-shirts. You don't want to stand out and you don't want to have a weak spot. My buddy wore purple pants her first week. I thought they looked fine, but she was a bit hippy and some little jerk said 'you look like Barney'. It forced her to deal with it and it made her cry. So, no piano-keyboard ties, no super expensive basketball shoes. Don't try to dress like or for the kids. After a few years, you can wear cargo pants and Oxfords every day like me. Keep a change of clothes at school for emergencies. Before you buy a grading program, ask if your school has a license for one already. I use Easy Grade Pro because we have a license, not because it's the best. Learn whatever you have inside and out- it will change your life. If you don't have enough whiteboards, get shower wall panels at Home Depot or ? and hang them: whiteboard. I have three walls of them, one for examples, standards, word of the day, reminders, the second for class agenda for the day and the third for me just having fun. Get a few packs of markers. If you can get the refillable kind and can find the 'ink', you win. On your desk: hand sanitizer and kleenex are nice. Good pens and DON'T loan them out. Did your school give you a laptop? Watch it- get a cable lock and lock it down, as well as any thing else you value. Your phone should stay in your pocket! My phone was stolen and I got it back because the security guards like me and I got lucky. I have three computers in my room: a shite school laptop that runs the grading software, my netbook that goes online, plays needed video, etc and a huge desktop I use twice a year for turning in grades. I also have my own printer, one that I got from a government auction. It came with a ton of ink left and it works like a champ. I have a great fridge in my room. That allows me to eat healthier stuff for lunch and avoid the depressing soul pit that is the teacher's lounge. I also have an ice maker in my room (my wife rocks, what can I say?). No microwave- the smell of the food is distracting for the kids- 'hey, whatcha eating? That stinks! Can we have some?' F them, but they'll try to make it an issue.

Every day: have a bell-ringer assignment the kids should be working on when the bell rings at the start of class. I put up two broken sentences and the kids have to fix them. Takes about 4 minutes and gives me time to take attendance and drink some coffee. Have an agenda on your board so kids never have to ask 'what are we doing now?' I can just point at the board. Remember: you will come into contact with kids who want to learn and then you will have kids who would rather mess with you. Messing with you is like a chess game for them and they've been working on it a long time. Each new teacher is a new chance to win! If you can turn those kids to the side or change their focus, you can do your job. These kids will work together. They will consult with each other to succeed in making you fail. You need a strategy to deal with that and you've got to adapt to their new methods, as they will adapt to yours. If you have rules and procedures in place at the beginning of the year, you will never have to argue. Keep a daily journal of what specific kids do, good or bad, so you go into a disciplinary meeting with facts, not generalities. Don't swear in front of the kids- just don't. Think about the things you say and whether they could be twisted to sound racist or sexist or discriminatory in some way. Think about it, that's all. Don't let kids hang out or bother you during lunch or at breaks- that's YOUR time and you need to protect it for the sake of your health. If they need help, show up EARLY and see if kids show up. Be nice and do whatever you can to ingratiate yourself to the secretaries, security people, the custodians, librarians and photocopy guy. If you have an empty period, go find those people and introduce yourself. I used to bake bread and bring it with butter to school. Fresh bread with sweet butter...my copies get done FIRST, Jack. DON'T just offer beer or booze, that's kind of insulting...don't be an obvious kiss-ass, but just ask: hey, you need any help?

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Only the line folds well, there is no painting, it is easy to learn.

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General but productive activity on goal setting you can use in any class:

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General but productive activity on goal setting you can use in any class:

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Objectives: Students will be able to state the meaning of SMART goals, SWBAT determine if an example goal is SMART or doesn’t fit SMART, SWBAT create 5 goals for themselves this semester, SWBAT reflect on and adjust goals as needed later on.

Start by talking about SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time) goals and give examples of good vs needs improvement. I just wrote out the acronym SMART on my whiteboard and explained it out loud, but you could make a worksheet if you wanted.

Next, go through some example goals and have students answer if they are SMART goals or not-so-smart goals.

SMART goal examples: I will do 30 min of cardio 3x per week, and keep track on a calendar, I will meet with my chemistry teacher twice per chapter after school to discuss material, I will pick up 5 pieces of trash every day, I will cook dinner for my grandma and eat over at her place once every two weeks, I will practice vocab notecards for French class one time every day (except weekends), I will do a cartwheel once a week, I will read for fun for 20 minutes 4x per week, I will save $5 every week that I’d normally use on fast food.

Not-so-SMART goal examples: I will be smarter, I will lose 50 pounds, I will get all As, I will be a better person, I will get a girlfriend.

I gave my kids 5 categories last year: Academic, Physical, Mental/Emotional, Community/Volunteer, and French class. Make sure that they know physical just isn't weight--physical can be "I'll go outside every day," "I'll spend 5 minutes each day working on posture and breathing."

Then you can revisit this throughout the year if you need a lesson! You can do check-ins every week or every chapter, or just when it’s the end of your lesson but you still have 20 minutes and the students are getting squirrelly. Add or subtract whatever you’d like. Happy teaching!

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Internet Addiction - How Social Media addiction keeps you hooked to your smartphones

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When Parent emails last minute to try to get kid's grade up.

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When Parent emails last minute to try to get kid's grade up.

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Dear mom,

Thank you for your email correspondence of 12/18. I think we all wanted what is best for John. Unfortunately apparently you and I wanted it more than John did. I’m not happy with the fact that John earned a 53.4 for the first semester, but that is the situation he has put both of us in.

I do have some suggestions for next semester: John needs to complete all assigned work. John needs to attend every class period. John needs to attend tutoring after school which is offered every Tuesday at 3 pm until 4 pm. John needs to complete test corrections for every test for which he did not receive a passing grade.

I know you’re as disappointed as I am. Look upon this as a learning experience for John. Have a great holiday season!!

Teacher

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Оригами. Как сделать книгу из бумаги (видео урок)

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Teachers seeking better work-life balance would do well to consider these ten major time-wasters.
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In brief: If you're planning to revamp your classroom management by reading Michael Linsin's Dream Classroom, read this review for some of his tips and tricks.

In brief: If you're looking for new classroom management ideas, read on for ten takeaways from Smart Classroom Management Michael Linsin's book Dream Class.
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In brief: Are you hunting for Thanksgiving-themed English lesson ideas? Look no further for inspiration for your Thanksgiving English lesson.

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BLACKBOARD talk. - No-Nonsense Advice and Inspiration for Teachers of English

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I'm Paul. Mr. Murphy to students. Murph to everybody else. Call me what you want.

I'm a third grade teacher in Michigan. I've been doing it longer than I ever thought I would. I like my job. I also like writing about it. Hence, this blog.

The site is about helping teachers. I'm oldish now and since I've done this thing for a while I feel I have some things to share. I also like learning new stuff and the topics of my books give me a really good excuse to read a lot.

So here's how it works. I read stuff. Sometimes I learn interesting things that I think will make good blog posts. So I write them. Hopefully, someone reads them. Even more hopefully, they share them with others.

I hope you find something useful here. And if not always useful, then at least somewhat entertaining.

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I'm Paul. Mr. Murphy to students. Murph to everybody else. Call me what you want. I'm a third grade teacher in Michigan. I've been doing it longer than I ever thought I would. I like my job. I also like writing about it. Hence, this blog. The site is about helping teachers.

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HelpTeaching.com - Free Printable K-12 Worksheets

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Free Teaching Resources from HelpTeaching.com

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Free worksheet bundles, teaching guides, resource lists, and online teaching tools for educators and parents from HelpTeaching.com.

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Ringless Voicemail Messaging App : Slydial

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Slydial is a ringless voicemail service that connects you directly to someone's mobile voicemail.

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Watch Animation using only folded paper GIF by Jackson3OH3 (@jackson3oh3) on Gfycat. Discover more related GIFs on Gfycat

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This Day in History - Zinn Education Project

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Welcome to the This Day in History (#tdih) series. Search people's history events by date, theme, state, or keyword.

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We believe in the power of great teaching.

We're a team of professionals, including many former teachers, who really care about education and for more than 100 years, we've supported educators to inspire generations of pupils.

Whether you're newly-qualified, an experienced teacher, support staff or a school leader, you'll find us by your side at every stage of your teaching journey; providing you with the information, products and training you need to succeed, connecting you with other teachers worldwide and helping you to improve more children's lives through education.

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Homepage | Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world.

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SAAM’s education resources use artworks as invitations to explore historical eras, literary themes, and connections to the present day. Contextualized within the people, movements, and stories of the United States, these artworks provide rich opportunities to uncover complexities and perspectives an…

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INSPIRING Art Educators SINCE 2011

Art educators deserve support at every stage of their careers. Discover a rich K-12 visual arts curriculum, professional development, relevant resources, online graduate courses, and rigorous master's degree programs.

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A "spiel" of sorts. Create an experience that illustrates why your subject matter is worth studying.
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Science - Experiments, Facts, Jokes, Games

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Science - Experiments, Facts, Jokes, Games

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Experimonkey - Science Experiments, Games, & Jokes for Kids!

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Yale University Press London distributes to most countries outside of North and South America.

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The entire drawing was made from her writing various words and phrases in cursive. The word “butthole” occurs 54 times.

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Let's hawk some river products!!! This Challenge looks at rivers from a historical and economic perspective - trying to get at the essential question: why have humans historically flocked to rivers? In order to explore these questions, students will focus on a particular human-made innovation or river utilization - i.e., water wheel, canal, logging, canoe - that had the effect of making the river facilitate humanity's survival and well-being.
[This Challenge is part of an interdisciplinary trio of Challenges that has The River as a core element, to be explored through a Language Arts, Historical and Scientific lens.]
Hip Hop History

By now, most of you have heard of the success of the Broadway musical . What is the hullaballoo all about? On the one hand, the show - about one of our founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton - is an energetic, rapturous story, told in hip hop and R&B, that provides insight into American history in a way that has never been done before. For our purposes, the success also lies in its madly creative use of hip-hop - a form that uses rhyming and word play, combined with rhythm and syncopation - to deliver a thrilling story and thoughtful psychological portrait about a very complicated man: Alexander Hamilton.

In this Competition, you have the chance to do the same: create a hip-hop biographical song about an important person in history. The aim for your portrait is to communicate both the key historical facts about your chosen character, but also to provide insight into the nature of the person: what, based on your research, made your character tick?

Monopoly Tribute

Monopoly. An amazing game of shrewd economics, strategic thinking, conquering and being conquered (fiscally, that is). This Challenge asks you to re-imagine the facets of Monopoly through the lens of an ancient civilization. For example, in Monopoly, there are four lanes of properties, each with increasingly higher real estate values. What are the four levels of real estate in your civilization? How are values established? What is your currency and its "gold standard"? What replaces the value of the four Railroad cards? What does one have to do wrong to be sent 'to jail'? What is 'jail'?

The deliverable is an Instructional Video which needs to clearly communicate two things: the rules of the game - how to play - and knowledge about your chosen ancient culture and its system of economic values.

The Story of a Historical Decision

This Challenge asks you to tell us a story about a decision: a decision that changed the course of humanity, in a small or large way.

Identify a historical figure in whom you are interested (or are studying). Then select one key decision that figure made; a decision that had impact and consequences, both personally and societally. And tell us the story of that decision. To help you tell that story, we are employing a decision-making rubric from a team of Decision Scientists that will help with both understanding the science of decision-making, as well as assist with good storytelling!

The Model UN of Climate Justice (STEAM Crossover)

Climate change is a topic with which we tend to grapple and understand solely as a phenomenon of the physical sciences. But there is a strong movement globally to understand it also as a social science: to understand it in terms of causation, global economics, disproportionate impact, and politics. This is called Climate Justice.

In this Challenge, you and your team will choose a country (from a select list) and create a Model UN-style presentation about climate change and climate justice, as a representative of that country.

[See also: Technology Vs. the Environment: You Choose in the STEAM offerings]

Rivers and Humanity: An Essay in Words in Photos

Henry David Thoreau writes of rivers:

They are the natural highways of all nations, not only levelling the ground and removing obstacles from the path of the traveller, quenching his thirst and bearing him on their bosoms, but conducting him through the most interesting scenery, the most populous portions of the globe, and where the animal and vegetable kingdoms attain their greatest perfection.

In this Challenge, following in the tradition of great Natural Writers like Thoreau, Aldo Leopold and John McPhee, present a ten-frame photographic story about a river. The photographic story needs to be narrated by your writing - 250 to 400 words - and feature two photos, 7 of which must be original.
[This Challenge is part of an interdisciplinary trio of Challenges that has The River as a core element, to be explored through a Language Arts, Historical and Scientific lens.]
"The Lottery" - Reimagined

Since 1948, Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery," has resonated with students and educators. Why? That is what this challenge asks you to examine. Read and study the story; create a 12-frame visual storyboard of the story, BUT, change a few things - the setting, the order of the scenes, and ...add a new scene - without changing the ending. The Lottery Reimagined challenges you to probe the meaning of the original story; visualize it; and enhance it.

Comic Poetry Sketch

April in every year is both National Humor Month and National Poetry Month. Soooo, this Meridian Stories Challenge attempts to honor both! Create a comic sketch that successfully communicates the basic rules that govern three different kinds of poetry.

I Am Who I Am Because... (Digital Self-Portrait)
Personal Essay - Family Heritage Research - Creative Storytelling - Digital Literacy - 21st Century Skills
In this digital storytelling challenge, you will create a digital personal essay - a self-portrait (as an individual or a group) - exploring three key themes: family heritage, personal passions, and defining aspects of your identity (ex. religion, culture, gender, sexuality, etc.). The storytelling format is wide-open and the endgame is to create a personal essay that also functions as a work of digital art.

Paperback Podcast

It's time to create your own show about literature! A podcast show, that is. The podcast's aim will be to observe a short story or novel through one of the following three critical literary lenses: the Marxist lens, Feminist lens, or New Historicism/Biographical lens. Discuss a character or relationship in the story with contextual evidence and analyze it through your chosen lens.

Healthy Rivers: A Call to Action
[This Challenge is part of an interdisciplinary trio of Challenges that has The River as a core element, to be explored through a Language Arts, Historical and Scientific lens.]
This Challenge is designed to give students a foundational structural understanding of river ecology. It begins with the question: 'what makes a river healthy or unhealthy?' And the journey to answer that question is a journey through the science of river eco-systems, climate change and the anthropogenic threats to rivers, locally and globally. The final deliverable is a Call To Action video designed for a local or national agency.

The Game's Afoot - Documentary

Math challenges abound in all of your favorite board games. For example, what are the chances of landing on Boardwalk and Park Place? How many rolls of the dice will it take to get to the billiard room to ask about Colonel Mustard with the wrench? In The Game's Afoot, your team combines game design elements with one of the following mathematical concepts to create a new, non-electronic, math-based game:

Building and interpreting functions

Transformations (rotations, reflections, & translations)

Vectors

Modeling (geometric, graphical, tabular, algebraic, or statistical)

Probability

One can also apply relevant science or engineering principles. The resulting deliverable will be a documentary of the development and design process that concludes with your peers playing the actual game.
Technology and Society - Climate Change - Decision Sciences - Storytelling - Digital Literacy - 21st Century Skills
Technology Vs. The Environment: You Choose (History crossover)
Kinematics Equations - Problem Solving - Storytelling - Earthquake Sciences - Historical Research - Storytelling - Digital Literacy - 21st Century Skills Digital Literacy - 21st Century Skills
This is a Challenge that asks you to think deeply about two of the most dominant forces in our lives today: technology and the environment. At the center of this challenge there is a decision to be made: to lead the world deeper into technology or to lead the world deeper into environmental issues. The ride to get to that decision will take you on a journey into two of the most complex and relevant factors shaping society today.

Kinematics for the Win!

You've come across a brilliant pair of soccer shoes. They could be magical or perhaps a feat of engineering - either way, these shoes are the key to becoming a star player on your soccer team. The shoes can apply the correct amount of force to hit a soccer ball with a certain initial velocity. With these shoes, you can plug in a desired initial velocity of the soccer ball and they'll do the rest! In this imaginative Challenge, you experiment with kinematics equations to score the winning goal!

Your team is challenged to create the next episode for the The Tip of the Iceberg podcast series. The series talks about natural disasters that you can't always see until they are right in front of you. The show has done episodes on tsunamis, floods, volcanoes - and now earthquakes! The episode your team is creating will focus on a specific fault line and a past earthquake that occurred as a result of its movement. Your mission is to tell a scientific story that delivers the content while also focusing on the people and the place.

[See also: The Model UN of Climate Justice in the History offerings]

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Meridian Stories - Creative Digital Curricula for the 21st Century

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Let's hawk some river products!!! This Challenge looks at rivers from a historical and economic perspective - trying to get at the essential question: why have humans historically flocked to rivers? In order to explore these questions, students will focus on a particular human-made innovation or river utilization - i.e., water wheel, canal, logging, canoe - that had the effect of making the river facilitate humanity's survival and well-being.

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Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL and TEFL Teacher.

Find Science Worksheets and Teaching Resources at www.science-teachers.com

Halloween Flashcards

Amounts and Containers
Superhero Flashcards

The continents and oceans card game. Good content-based ESL for practising present perfect and simple past as well as geography terms.
Clothes Flashcards History Worksheets and Teaching Resources at www.littlehistorians.com.

Site Search

Glossary of ESL terms

Snowflakes are beautiful!

Phonics Resources

CVC Words

Consonant Digraphs

Long Vowels

Introduction: Young Learner Worksheets:

Basic ESL worksheets for K7 young learners . This section has been much expanded with over one hundred units of young learners' teaching materials.

Seasonal Links:

Fall Worksheets

Teach autumn vocabulary with these fall worksheets and activities. Also, check out the fall teaching resources for young learners, the fall bingo, and fall super quiz game.

Halloween Worksheets

There are a number of Halloween worksheets and activities including Halloween bingo, Halloween flashcards, Halloween videos, and the Halloween super quiz game. There is also a Halloween young learners unit.

new! Super Quiz Game

Generate quiz games for your class with the new Super Quiz Game generators.

Get your students ready to interact with coworkers in the worplace with these Workplace Interactions
workplace listening, reading, and vocabulary selections.

new! Listening Selections

Practise listening with beginner, intermediate, and advanced listening dialogues.

new! Vocabulary Video Presentations

There are a number of vocabulary video presentations on topics such as the season, cooking verbs, and places in a city.

Content Questions

Board Game

An excellent communicative activity with extensive support materials for teaching kids. In the Content Questions Board Game game kids answer content questions like What do seeds need to grow?

Word Skills Game

Rhyming Riddles

This section contains rhyming riddle worksheets that can be used as fun vocabulary review and rhyme awareness exercises. Now there are also anagram riddles, homophone riddles, and word morph riddles as well.
Proverbs Communication Activity I need a Ticket to Osaka, Japan? Frog Life Cycle Worksheets Can I Bug You for a Sec?
A solving a puzzle. A good classroom English role-play as students use language to talk role-play where students ask for help about words.
Reporting Changes Can I take a message? Telephone English
Students practice taking and leaving message with this telephone English role-play . There is also a business English version .
Giving Directions
A role-play to practice asking someone out to dinner and giving directions to the restaurant. Also, Giving directions II: directions by subway or bus route . And finally, giving directions III: directions by roadmap and suggesting somewhere to go .
Movie Lessons!
Two great activities with worksheets, role-plays, and activities for teaching ESL for movies.
I'm Calling about the Apartment? Little Letter Tracing Worksheets: A Visit to the Doctor Role-play How Much Is It? Short Conversation Resources Teaching Effective Communication Through Graded Reading Materials TEFL Grapevine Grammar Soccer: Reported Speech: Traveling Among Monsters Language Enrichment:
The Biggleborians: This worksheet combines anthropology and ESL. Useful for teaching the present progressive and the past.
Irregular Past Tense Verbs Food Chain Worksheets:

Word Skills Cloze Activties

This section contains worksheet generators for reviewing word skills such as synonyms, antonyms, categories, past tense, and naming.

Large Flashcards

We've collected all of our large flashcard sets into one section.

Job Fair: A Role-play
Easy ESL Crosswords
A collection of ESL crosswords put together by Lanternfish ESL:

English Vocabulary Games
A collection of games and vocabulary activities on a variety of themes put together by Lanternfish ESL for advanced beginner to intermediate students:

Teaching Relative Clauses with Massive Comprehensible Input
This section contains 20 crosswords made using a database of clues in the form of relative clauses. There is also a new collection with word skills crosswords.
Describing and Captioning Pictures
A great activity for sentence level speaking and writing. Students describe a picture in as many sentences as they can. There is also a section for young learners now. And now there is a spot the difference section and story questions worksheets.
Initial Sounds and Final Sounds Phonics Worksheets
Over 30 new worksheets that cover the initial sounds of words . There are also some newly added Final Sounds Worksheets . Also check out the phonics monsters .
Alphabet Worksheets
A collection of alphabet worksheets including alphabet mazes , alphabet trains , and big letter coloring worksheets and small letter tracing sheets .
Reading Puzzle Packets Juicy Baek: ESL Surveys: Telephone Language: Superlatives Communication Activity The ESL Science Center:
A with science articles geared towards monthly web magazine ESL learners. This month: Reptiles, Amphibians, Science, Scientists, and Anthropology.

Writers Workshop:

T he workshop has moved. Lessons on Weighing an Argument, Building an Argument, and Refuting an Argument.
Preposition Cards:
G hosts, trolls, and aliens are in the house.Check out the Preposition Flashcards.
Hypothetically Speaking Game: Web Guide Other Resources?
T he Dolch Sight Words teaching materials are new. As well as the Phrasal Verb Crosswords . The Harry Potter Worksheets .
ESL Business Activities: ESL Game Boards:
Dozens of Printable Game boards for communicative classes.
Holiday Worksheets Information Gap Exercises Conversation Question Prompts
Learn forest animal names and the conjunction 'and' with this Bingo Game . Now, there are many new bingo games with bingo card generators with topics such as birds, animals, kitchen objects, shapes and colors .
City Worksheets:
Activities and worksheets with a city theme .

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"Life" Points are points students can earn towards grade (maybe more like actions that make teacher consider upping grade?) that give them: life skills, diff. POV, satisfaction of helping out someone else/a cause. Each has diff. amount of points (depends on thing/skill).

EXAMPLES: volunteering, picking up trash in community, reading/watching something and writing what you learned/how you would use, etc., trying drawing exercises from websites, finding good art/school resources for class, following specific people/orgs. on social media, listen to educational/life skill podcast, etc, etc.

Page on site > list things w descript. & how many points worth.

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When we think of supply teaching, we often think of the negatives. Like how there isn't any regular work or how supply teachers are simply thrown into the deep end to cover a class in a teacher's absence.

While permanent work can give you a routine, job security and a steady income, supply teaching does have a number of hidden benefits that are worth knowing.

In this article, we've identified 9 hidden benefits of supply teaching.

1. Flexibility

Supply teaching is a great way to balance time spent in the classroom with your own extra-curricular activities. You can choose when you want to work and where you want to work. Supply teaching gives you the chance to fit your travelling plans whenever it suits you. You're not restricted to set holidays given by the school. You can even attend events such as birthdays, weddings and concerts. You're in charge of your availability, which leads me nicely on to my next point...

2. You're Your Own Boss

Having the ability to choose when you want to work and not being dictated by a rigid class timetable practically makes you your own boss. Plus, in the UK, the demand for supply teaching is always high, so you're almost guaranteed to find work when it suits you. Many supply teachers have negotiated their own terms of working arrangements and picked the days they're available for work.

3. No Paperwork

As you may know, full-time teaching involves a lot of paperwork. There's paperwork for assessments, meetings, lesson planning and school policies. For many teachers, all this paperwork can get quite overwhelming. So it comes as no surprise to see teachers working up to 60 hours a week. But with supply teaching, you are mostly free from these onerous tasks so you can focus on the important aspect of your job: teaching.
Related Learning: Level 2 Teaching Assistant Course with Functional Skills Maths and English
4. Experience Variety

When you're working as a supply teacher, one week you could be teaching Year 3, the next you might end up with a disruptive year 6 class. The variety you get as a supply teacher is a big plus because you'll get to experience it all, and you won't feel stuck teaching the same syllabus year after year.

5. Professional Development

As you get to experience a great deal of variety by working in a wide range of schools, you will be exposed to different learning styles. And as you become acquainted with other teachers in different schools, you might even learn new teaching methods. You learn so much more as a supply teacher and this will bode well with your professional development.
Related Learning: Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools (RQF)
6. Retirement

Even though this benefit may not be on everyone's mind right now, it is definitely one to consider for the future. There a number of retired teachers who go into supply teaching because they miss the profession. Some retired teachers have gone back to their old school through supply work, others have gone on to specialist schools to try out a new challenge.

7. Relocation

You can find work in any school up and down the country. If you're planning to move to a different part of the country, supply teaching allows you to "try out" different schools in the area before committing to a permanent position.
Related Learning: Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools (RQF)
8. Return to Teaching

If you decided to step away from teaching for whatever reason (i.e. a sabbatical), supply teaching is an excellent way to get back into the profession. Supply teaching can help you re-evaluate your original decision so you can decide whether to get back into it or not.

9. Earn While You Learn

If you are pursuing further education, whether it is an MA or an MSc, supply work provide syou with an effective way to support your studies, in particularly if the course is related to education. The flexible working schedule provided by supply teaching can help you fit around your class schedule and coursework assignments.

Thanks for reading! What are your thoughts on this topic? Are you a supply teacher? Do you know of any other hidden benefits? Please let us know in the comments section below.

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The 9 Hidden Benefits of Supply Teaching - The Learning Station

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K-12 Game-a-thon: Student Game Design Challenge

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It may seem that there is little overlap between math and art, but the merging of the two creates a synergy that enhances each subject, giving more meaning to the art and greater context to the math concepts being taught - creating a truly rich learning experience.

Any opportunity students have to create is a moment of empowerment. Math goes from being frustrating and mysterious to relatable and tangible when explored through hands-on art activities. Not only does this change students' understanding and perception of math (go away, math anxiety!), experiences like this change the way students think of themselves as math learners.

Throughout history, people have used pattern art to exhibit and explore mathematical understanding. To help this connection come alive for your students, square paper tiles are great visual tools. (And easily accessible in the form of post-it notes or other square papers!) They are tangible, providing students a visual and kinetic experience with math, thereby deepening conceptual understanding.

The following are some math art projects and lesson ideas that you could use in your math centers, as whole group lessons, to differentiate lessons, as homework, after school, or with your child at home.

String Patterns

Ages: Pre-K - kindergarten

Standards:
Look for and make use of structure [ CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7]
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning [CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP8]

Explore patterns with younger students. Start by showing examples of patterns, such as AB, ABC, or AABB. Ask students to create their own similar patterns.

Questions for Understanding:

What is a pattern?

How many times does it need to repeat to count as a pattern?

Look at your neighbor's pattern. How are they alike? How are they different?

Questions for Deeper Understanding:

What happens when we replace only some of the colors? Is this still a pattern

What happens if you change the shape of the line but keep the color progression? Is this still a pattern?

What happens when we turn the pattern vertically? Is this still a pattern?

Challenge Question: How many patterns can you find below? What color should the missing tile be?

Mosaic Tiles

Design a mosaic tile. This could be a pattern or an image. You can also elevate the task by giving it more context such as asking students to play architect and design a floor plan for a dream house, or be an interior decorator by designing a backsplash or floor tile design. This is also reminiscent of graphic designers who design small icons pixel by pixel. You can further differentiate this by changing the number of colors a student can use or the area/dimensions of the mosaic.

From here you can explore a variety of math topics:

Perimeter and Area with Mosaic Tiles

Ages: 3rd - 4th graders

Standards:
Understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition. [ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.6]
[ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7]
Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurement.
[ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.3]

Learning Objectives: Identify the perimeter and area of each color.

Because these are atypical shapes and designs unique to each student, this will really push students to confront and solidify their understanding of perimeter (as the outer edge) and area (as the space inside).

Questions for Deeper Understanding:

If you've counted the edge for the perimeter of one color, can you count that edge again as part of the perimeter of another color?

Does the formula "length x width" still work here when trying to find the area of a given color?

Were you able to devise any strategies or shortcuts in finding the area or perimeter of a color in your design? Can that strategy be applied to another color or another person's design?

Keep the same tiles, but create a new design. Do the area and perimeter stay the same or change?

Trade designs with a partner and do the same activity of finding area and perimeter. Was their design harder or easier to do those calculations? If so, why? If partners arrive at different answers, disagreements here can result in rich discussions between partners - a great learning opportunity.

Fractions with Mosaic Tiles

Ages: 3rd graders

Standards:Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. [ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.1]

Learning Objective: Identify the fractional amount of each color in the overall design.

Students can inspect the proportions of each color used in their design. This will push students' understanding of parts and wholes.

Questions for Understanding:

What is the largest fraction you found in your design? The smallest?

What do you get when you add all the fractional parts together?

Questions for Deeper Understanding:

In a two color design, do you need to count the number of tiles in the second-most color to know what fraction of the picture it is?

If your design has more than two colors, will this strategy still work?

Can you convert the fraction area of each color to a percentage?

This is easily done if students are working with a 10x10 grid. It becomes a more challenging lesson in equivalent fractions if done on a grid of other dimensions.

How does a fraction compare to a ratio? Do they give different information?

Fractions with Mosaic Tiles Part II

Ages: 4th - 5th graders

Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. [ Build fractions from unit fractions [Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions. Apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division. [ Standards:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3]
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4] CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.A.1]
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.4, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.6, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NF.B.7.B]

Learning Objectives: Adding, multiplying, and dividing fractions

Starting with long strips of paper, ask students to subdivide the strip into fractional parts to create their own fraction tiles. Let each color be its own unit fraction. Use these more complex tiles to create a mosaic design.

Questions for Understanding:

Given a strip of paper, how does one divide it equally into each of these unit fractions? Halves, thirds, fourths, etc.?

What is the perimeter of each color?

You can differentiate this activity by how wide you make the strips of paper. Making the strips 1-inch wide will make for an easier activity, whereas a fractional width such as ¾-inch will be more challenging when finding the area and perimeter.

What is the area of each color? (Students will need to employ fraction multiplication, and then addition, to answer this question.)

Questions for Deeper Understanding:

If you want to add another layer of complexity and get students adding fractions with uncommon denominators, you could ask them to find the perimeter of combinations of colors, such as all the primary colors, and then all the secondary colors.

Probability with Mosaic Tiles

Ages: 6th - 7th graders

Standards:Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context. [ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5]
Investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models. [ CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.C.6]

Turn your mosaic into a game board. Create a border around the edge. (You could use snap cubes, tape, more paper, pipe cleaners, etc.) Add a small token into the mix - a top or a coin to spin, a die or chip to toss. The "game" is that you're going to toss or spin this token onto this design and see where it'll land.

Questions for Understanding:

What is the theoretical probability that the token will land on any given color?

This is a calculation, much like finding the fractional area of each color. What is the connection between fractions and probability?

Students can then test their calculations by conducting trials and finding the experimental probability of how often the token lands on each color. This is a great opportunity for students to observe and collect actual data.

Questions for Deeper Understanding:

How does the probability change as you increase the number of trials?

What should the minimum or maximum number of trials be?

How does the theoretical probability compare with the experimental probability?

You can see that you could blend a lot of the above activities together to create hybrid activities where even more interesting questions will emerge. For example, the game board students create in the mosaic tiles probability activity could be used as a starting point for the K-12 Game-a-thon challenge.

This allows students to see the interconnectedness between math topics - how do fractions relate to area and perimeter, and then to probability? The art of tiling can facilitate discussion and motivate questions across multiple math topics, and can reach students of all levels. And since the designs are made by the student, they will be more invested in the math. It beats answering textbook word problems about Bob's garden planter any day!

What else can you do with paper tiles and art in math? Read how one student created a visually engaging board game for the K-12 Game-a-thon challenge.

Further Exploration:

The art of tiling is an ancient one (as seen in Islamic tilings starting in 1200) and has been utilized by many prominent artists, spans many cultures, and even has scientific implications.

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A calendar with a (my) doodle in each square/day. Each student has their own. Share? Volunteer share? Anonymous share? Show mine everyday?