Weekly Math Problem!

I would often post a weekly math problem for my students to solve for extra credit. Give your answer in the comment area below.




Math Problems Solving: A peasant wants to sell his stuff and get some salt and other supply back home. However, he has to cross a river with a small boat. How can you help him carry a sheep, wolf as well as cabbage across the river? You can only carry one item across at one time.
Math problem solving: Hint, Remember, sheep eat cabbage, wolf eat sheep.

Student Created Teaching Video

Below, students write the script, storyboard, shoot and edit the video, and act out the scenes. They then are able to publish their hard work on the blog for the world to see. Would you like your students to do this?

In science we have been learning about rocks and minerals. The NatureScapes program taught us how to identify rocks based on their properties.

We also learned that there are three types of rocks: Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.

The Rock Cycle

Rocks are grouped depending on how they form. Here is a short video with three students and our good friend Perezoso the sloth that explains how these different rocks are formed. We hope you like it!

Did you learn anything new from the video?

Can you explain how the different rocks are formed?

Do you have any cool rocks?

Student Post

Students can be "Guest Bloggers" and write something for the class and the world to read and respond to. This is highly motivating for students.

My Trip to England

by Jack

Of all the exciting journeys in my life, my trip to England for Christmas in 2009, was the most memorable. One special event was my very first rugby game. It was England vs. Germany, and the weather was cold and wet. One of the players suffered a horrible knee injury. I purchased a souvenir that was a red rugby jersey. I had delicious lunch there of tasty fish and chips. The game lasted three hours. The final score was 16 to 13. England won! Second, I had a really fun and interesting snowball fight, at my grandmother’s house with my friends and family. My side was so excited that we made a fort bigger than my dad. It was really good that we won. I got a hit that was as fast as a great white shark. My dad also got a perfect hit, right in my face. It was so cold that it was like a blizzard in Washington D.C, and it was so windy that my hat flew off like a rocket. In conclusion, I had a very interesting and enjoyable time on my vacation visiting my grandparents in England.

Embed Video

You can embed videos and have your students watch them and then answer questions by replying. Here is an example:



If the video does not work, try clicking here to view it.

Book Report

If you are pregnant, or thinking about becoming pregnant, you will receive roughly six copies of this in board book form. Consider yourself warned.




A little bunny continues to threaten to run away. (If my daughter ever pulls this, I may not handle it as well as the Mother Bunny in this book.) For example, when the little bunny says he is going to become a rock on a mountain high above her, the mother replies that she will become a mountain climber. In the end, the little bunny realizes that his mother will always be with him and decides to stay home and be her little bunny.

I think this is more of a bedtime story than it is a read aloud for your friends at school.

Writing Prompt

Unlocking the innate creativity within people is not always as difficult as you think. One intriguing example is the idea of the six word story, where the author must fit a complete story within a mere six words. The idea, which supposedly originated with Ernest Hemingway, lives on in the form of a Twitter meme and a recent book entitled Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.

The latter is fascinating because each writer attempts to capture an entire lifetime in less words than the book's own title. What surprised me is the amount of memoirs that relate to learning or education. It gave me a lot to think about, and I think you'll agree. Here's a sampling:

• Grading AP essays, I crave Tolstoy. -Carinna Tarvin
• Learned reading, writing, forgot arithmetic. -Elizabeth Rose Gruner
• Timid teacher takes 'tude from tykes. -Kathy Gates
• Students laughed appreciatively. The professor relaxed. -Laurie Hensley
• I colored outside of the lines. -Jacob Thomas
• All of my students hate me. -Sharon Fishfeld
• Educated too much, lived too little. -Dan Vance
• My second grade teacher was right. -Janelle Brown
• Learned. Forgot. Better off relearning anyway. -Brian DeLeeuw
• High school dropout but college graduate. -Mary Beth Nalin
• Used to add. Now I subtract. -Melissa Gorelick

I can't recommend the book enough. In a way, it's sort of a purely literary PostSecret. I'd love to hear from teachers who used this as a class project. Actually, I'd love to read your own six word memoir. Share both in the comments.

From:http://www.teachforever.com/