This site helps students see how plants and animals interact to accomplish …
This site helps students see how plants and animals interact to accomplish pollination. Students (Grades 3-8) identify plant and animal parts involved in pollination, connections between pollination and food production, relationships between pollinators and the plants they pollinate, and ways flowers have adapted to encourage pollination.
The Play Make Learn Conference is a place for collaboration and discovery …
The Play Make Learn Conference is a place for collaboration and discovery in the design, research and practice of playful learning, games for learning and positive social impact, making and makerspaces, STEAM education, and arts in education. PML creates an inspirational space for preK-12 educators, designers, developers, innovators, librarians, museum professionals, makers, and researchers to tinker together, share knowledge, and celebrate one another’s work.
Play Video Library is a great resource website for professionals to know …
Play Video Library is a great resource website for professionals to know more about what play is and how play can be an excellent medium for teaching and learning.
Lila Gray instills her own love of poetry in her students by …
Lila Gray instills her own love of poetry in her students by encouraging them to write original works and finding poems that express who they are. Her weekly open mic sessions create a perfect venue for building confidence and helping students find their voice while still hitting core standards and learning lifelong skills.
This response-cost strategy is appropriate for younger students who are verbally defiant …
This response-cost strategy is appropriate for younger students who are verbally defiant and non-compliant with the teacher. (See the related Hints for Using... column for tips on how to tailor this intervention idea for older students.)
What Works for Health is a resource from the Population Health Institute …
What Works for Health is a resource from the Population Health Institute at UW-Madison and provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes that will improve the variety of factors that affect health. The research underlying this site is based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many factors that can make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play.
Facilitating conversations among students is something teachers do all the time. But …
Facilitating conversations among students is something teachers do all the time. But what happens when discussions become personal? When we begin to talk about politics, it’s easy for emotions to enter and often derail a conversation.
Discover what two Wisconsin educators have to share about the methods they use to navigate politically-charged conversations inside his classroom in a short video and companion essay in the post on the aka Teacher blog.
Hosted by PBS Wisconsin Education, and created with and for Wisconsin educators, the aka Teacher blog offers a space for exploring the many hats educators today wear, and the topics that aren’t covered in teacher preparation programs. Blog posts include videos featuring educators around the state, and resources you can share with learners and use to continue your own learning.
How many balloons are left? In this interactive lesson, students use estimation …
How many balloons are left? In this interactive lesson, students use estimation and active listening to determine how many of the original balloons are left after some are popped.
Portraiture of Resistance is an exhibit at America's Black Holocaust Museum, located …
Portraiture of Resistance is an exhibit at America's Black Holocaust Museum, located at the intersection of North Avenue and 4th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Through art and poetry, visitors come to understand those African-Americans who have fought against injustice in our country.
Students observe four different classroom setups with objects in motion (using toy …
Students observe four different classroom setups with objects in motion (using toy cars, a ball on an incline, and a dynamics cart). At the first observation of each scenario, students sketch predicted position vs. time and velocity vs. time graphs. Then the classroom scenarios are conducted again with a motion detector and accompanying tools to produce position vs. time and velocity vs. time graphs for each scenario. Students compare their predictions with the graphs generated by technology and discuss their findings. This lesson requires assorted classroom supplies, as well as motion detector technology.
Some students thrive on peer attention-and will do whatever they have to …
Some students thrive on peer attention-and will do whatever they have to in order to get it. These students may even attempt intentionally to irritate their classmates in an attempt to be noticed. When students bother others to get attention, though, they often find themselves socially isolated and without friends. In addition, teachers may discover that they must surrender valuable instructional time to mediate conflicts that were triggered by students seeking negative peer attention. Positive Peer Reporting is a clever classwide intervention strategy that was designed to address the socially rejected child who disrupts the class by seeking negative attention. Classmates earn points toward rewards for praising the problem student. The intervention appears to work because it gives the rejected student an incentive to act appropriately for positive attention and also encourages other students to note the target student's good behaviors rather than simply focusing on negative actions. Another useful side effect of positive peer reporting is that it gives all children in the classroom a chance to praise others-a useful skill for them to master! The Positive Peer Reporting strategy presented here is adapted from Ervin, Miller, & Friman (1996).
PowerBall is a great game for students to work on overhand throwing …
PowerBall is a great game for students to work on overhand throwing technique and accuracy. It involves two teams throwing at targets in the middle of the gym, rather than at other students. This game is a great alternate to dodgeball.
Meet the GIRL!: Lizzy is 18 years old and an athlete and …
Meet the GIRL!: Lizzy is 18 years old and an athlete and a leader. She was born with spina bifida and has embraced herself and her GIRL Power. She is an archer as well as a basketball player. She played as a point guard for the Rollin Rockets in Charlotte NC. She has the goal of playing for the U.S. National team one day in the Paralympics and she has the tenacity to get there!
This is an activity to that allows non-native students the ability to …
This is an activity to that allows non-native students the ability to create a calendar of powwows that they may want to attend to learn more about Wisconsin Indian tribes.
In this lesson, students will learn about the tribes in the state …
In this lesson, students will learn about the tribes in the state of Wisconsin and how they celebrate the social gathering of the powwow. Students will view videos of powwow related to the tribes that are close by, or who's land their school is on. Students will also read the book Bowwow Powwow by Brenda Child.
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