An on-going department training program is essential to maintain skills, reinforce knowledge and to present new materials to the membership. Developing a complete, specific course objective insures ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Educators who plan lessons together create more effective learning experiences for students. This has been a proven practice in the Japanese education system for over a century. Team teaching, ...

Think of your lesson as a story and your lesson plan as its script. And remember that a good plan considers the people involved in the lesson, not just the activities Lesson plans are useful not just ...

STEM is more than just a grouping of subject areas. It is a movement to develop the deep mathematical and scientific underpinnings students need to be competitive in the 21st-century workforce. But ...

Ryan taught the kids about wind and the difference between weather and climate. The kids also learned about temperature, wind ...

We have organized our activities and lesson plans by topic and identified their corresponding programs. We noted if they work best as a pre-visit, post-visit activities, or stand-alone lesson plan.

In the 2010 PBS series FACES OF AMERICA, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. states, “if you scratch an American family, sooner or later, you’ll find an immigrant ancestor.” Between 1820 and ...

In this lesson students are introduced to Frederick Jackson Turner and how early Census data, when combined visually with maps, effectively demonstrated the end of the frontier. By reading Turner’s ...