Photo Editing

Photo editing can be used for many reasons in the classroom. It can be used to make lessons more interesting or fun. In a lesson you could put your face as the topic making the children eager to learn because they think its funny. An example of this is putting your face on the moon when learning about space or putting your face on an animal when learning biology. Photo editing can be very creative and can make your classroom more unique. You could even use photo editing to make fun bulletins in your classroom. An example of this is say you are doing a unit on multiplication and each student has to pass a certain test. You could make a bulletin board of the multiplication queens and kings and use photo editing to put the face of your student as a queen or a king. Another idea for a bulletin is for your classroom helpers. Most teachers use classroom helpers and each student gets a certain job. You could use photo editing to make pictures of the student actually doing this certain job and adding some creativity to make it more interesting.

Photo editing can even be used as a technology tool in the classroom. If you have time you could teach your students how to photo edit their pictures. The students could then use their skills to make their projects more interesting. Photo edited pictures can really make a powerpoint really interesting. A teacher could also use photo editing to create different games or even the student could make the game. An example of this type of game might be a learning the presidents types of games. You or the student could edit the picture making it difficult to identify the president, but possiable. This could help the students to remember what each president looks like.

The Learning Connection

The Learning Connection is a great way for teachers to stay connected with parents and students, and to keep organized. The Learning Connection has many helpful tools for teachers. The teacher can post homework assignments, grades, projects, or anything they want their students and parents to see. The parents and students can join the teacher's community and view what the teacher has posted for them. This is a great tool to use to keep the parents updated on whats going on in the classroom. Papers that teachers send home don't always make it home to the parent so this way the teacher has a back up plan. This can also be used to help students in case they forget how or what to do for an assignments they can easily look it up online. This can also help the student stay on top of their grades by being able to view them in an organized manner.

The Learning Connection can also help the teacher stay very organized. The teacher can post their personal activities, lesson plans, and grades. While posting activities and lesson plans the teacher can easy access the Indiana State Standards to make sure they are covering the standards. When posting activities and lessons there is even a place for which standard it is covering. This can save a teacher a lot of time when setting up their lesson plans and also keeps them very organized. On the Learning Connection there is even a place for teachers to type out a plan for her substitute teachers. This way she will always know that she is covered and that her substitute can find her instructions easily. Another way to help the teacher stay organized is an online calendar. The teacher can post up coming events for her parents and teachers or even just keep it personalized. The Learning Connection is a great tool for teachers and could be very helpful!

Lesson Plans

A to Z Teacher Stuff

In this website you can search by the subject and grade also, but there are more than subjects. This website is a great page to search for learning games for your grade area. The lessons are very descriptive and easy to follow. I would like to use this website to get ideas for different learning games. We all know that children love to play games, what better way to learn!

Education World

This website also has many tools to search for lesson plans you would like to use. The one that I really liked that I found was the “five minute fillers”. I think these little lessons will come in handy when I am looking for something little and fun to do with the classroom. This section has many different types of five-minute actives you can find. For each lesson it states what skills your classroom will be working on so you can use these during the time of topic they are learning about or even as introduction.

HotChalk

In this website you can search by grade level, subject, or sections. There are many different sections to choose from. I really like the seasonal lesson plans in this website. In the seasonal section you can choose almost anything you would want to use in a classroom from the Olympics to Easter. On this page you can search by the four season or month to month. I really like this websites variety of seasonal lesson plans and would find these really helpful for those types of lessons.

Teachers.Net

In this website you can also search by grade level or subject area. In this website the lesson plans are actually entered by actual teachers. Since the lesson plans are entered by actual teachers most of them give you hints on how the lesson works out and what to look out for. In this website I also found some very interesting games that you can use in the classroom. In this website there is many cute fun ideas for lesson plans that I plan to use someday.

TeacherVison

In this website you can search by grade or subject. Then the search goes further you can search by themes, type, most popular, class management, new, or TeacherVison books. This website has outstanding lesson plans that are very easy to follow. This website is also very organized and has many different topic for each subject. Another helpful thing about this website is that is very easy to print worksheets or the actual lesson plans. You can actually view the printable version before even printing. I really like this website and I plan to use it a lot.

Measuring Ourselves

Station 2: Measuring Ourselves-Height and Foot Size in InspireData

• Give the title of the module/station: Measurements
• Who was in your group: Robin & Caroline
• A (group) description of what the station was: This station was a way of measuring different parts of the body and inputting the data in to Inspire data to compare with graphs.
  
• A (group) description of what your group did: In the station we measured our height, wingspan, and foot length of ourselves and five other students in the class. Then we made graphs in the Inspire Data comparing the foot size to the height and the wingspan to height.
• What did you was an individual do? I helped measure the other students in the class and our groups. I also helped measure my own body parts so I was apart of the data.
  
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• This is a screen shot of the data table we used to make the graph below. We put in information that we collected from the different measurements.

Wingspan vs. Height

• This graph shows us that their is a relationship between wingspan and height. The wingspan and the height should be about the same. Also from this graph you can see that the taller the person is the longer their wingspan will be. When looking at the graph you can see if the wingspan is more to the right then the height is higher on the graph.
  

Foot Length vs. Height

• This graph shows us that there is a realtionship between foot length and height. The taller the person is the longer their foot length will be. When looking at the graph you can see this by if the foot length is farther tot he right then the height we be more towards the top.

• What did you like about this activity, if you were the student? What about if you were the teacher?: I liked that fact that I was using real data that I collected from my peers. If I were a teacher I would also like this activity because the students are working on their measurement skills. As a teacher I might have the students also create their own graphs because they have to learn those skills also.
  
• What did you not like about this activity, if you were the student? What about if you were the teacher?: If I were a student I would not like the fact that the data is not very spread or or unique to the graphs are not dramatic. If I were a teacher the only thing that I would not like is maybe this station would be interrupting the other groups when collecting data.
  
• What were the most interesting and/or surprising parts of this activity?: The most interesting parts of this activity was seeing the actual class data into a graph. It was also interesting learning how to use Inspire data.