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Learn division with refrigerator magnets — Intern Diaries contribution from Irma Barcena I remember in kindergarten, I would give my mother my work and she would hang it on the fridge. It varied from art and colored pictures. As I got older, it became assignments and tests where I did well, and eventually only the As […]

From papers on the refrigerator to division magnets

July 23, 2019 in Division / division / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Intern Diaries / Math / Mathematics by Julia De Mars

3 men and a buffalo — 10-minute lesson on primary sources Have your students watch the following two videos back to back. Not the galloping buffalo, the video below that. These two videos together are great resources for a lesson on the value of primary sources. Becoming a Buffalo Hunter How did you learn to hunt […]

Are primary sources important in learning history?

July 8, 2019 in 10 Minute Lesson / Cultural content / Educational Resources / History / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Mayan god-king from AzTech Games — Social Studies key terms and concepts videos and slides – free! I know these are concerns for Social Studies teachers because our video on TeacherTube on history terms had been viewed 50,000 times before we inadvertently copied over it a month ago with the exact same video to include our […]

Social Studies Key Terms and Concepts

July 4, 2019 in Educational Resources / Sixth Grade / Teachers tagged social studies / timelines by AnnMaria De Mars

Meg and Joe teach problem-solving strategies with apples — Don’t I Know It’s Summer? Why am I bothering you? Okay, I know, I know. It’s summer and you don’t want to think about lesson planning. Don’t I know that you only get a few weeks off each year and, for God’s sake, you’d like to take a break! Yes, […]

Resources for Teaching Problem-Solving Strategies

July 2, 2019 in Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / Math / Mathematics / problem-solving / Sixth Grade / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Graph explaining Buffalo herd statistics — Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear! I know you just got out of school a week ago, or maybe you still have a few days to go. Lesson plans to teach statistics are the last thing you want to think about. Trust me, you’ll thank me later. […]

Resources to Teach Statistics in Elementary and Middle School

June 9, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources / Sixth Grade tagged lesson plans by AnnMaria De Mars

630 divided by 42 — Teaching division isn’t easy. It requires practice from the students and patience from the teacher. There are always students who don’t get it the first time so you need more examples. Maybe students are limited in English so you need some explanations in Spanish. We’ve got you covered with several […]

Division lesson plans for the year in one hour

May 31, 2019 in AnnMaria / division / Educational Resources / Fourth Grade / Math / Mathematics / Third Grade by AnnMaria De Mars

Trail with tree, stream and other objects marking off quarters — Seriously, there's more to teaching fractions than pizza. Fractions are the first abstract concept most students learn and they can struggle to understand the concept. So, here are 10 minutes of animated videos, with explanations, definitions and a range of examples.

Teaching Fractions in 10 minutes

May 29, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

Room full of toys, games and random items scattered around — You don’t want to think about math lesson planning – or anything else school related – for at least a month I understand math lesson planning is the last thing you want to think about right now. Whether you’ve just finished the school year or you have a few more […]

Next year’s math lesson planning done in a day

May 26, 2019 in AnnMaria / Educational Resources / fractions / Math / Mathematics by AnnMaria De Mars

Ojibwe (Native American) girl from math video

VIDEO – Using a number line in fraction problems

May 25, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers / video by Daniel Mondaca

Fish Lake fractions game playing on Windows computer — Watch this video to learn what fractions have to do with fishing. You can apply fractions to almost everything! Actually, you can use fractions to discover whether your tribe, which depends on fishing, is going to die of starvation.

VIDEO – Fractions and Fishing

May 18, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers tagged Fish Lake by Daniel Mondaca

Native character saying you know how to compare like fractions — You probably know how to compare fractions with like denominators, but what about fractions that don’t have the same denominator?Well, to compare fractions with unlike denominators rewrite the fractions with like common denoinators, making the like fractions! Learn fractions and how to compare them with this video from our game […]

VIDEO – How to Compare Fractions with Common Denominators

May 3, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers by AnnMaria De Mars

Fish Lake — Learn about fractions and numberlines with Anookwesens. How was it that hundreds of years ago, Indians traveled all over and met up with one another just the right spot? It’s not as if they had computers to print maps to tell them where to go, and it’s a really big […]

VIDEO – Fractions on a Numberline

April 18, 2019 in 7GenGames / Educational Games / Educational Resources / Fifth Grade / Fourth Grade / fractions / Math / Mathematics / Teachers / video tagged fifth grade math / fractions / numberline by Daniel Mondaca