Monthly Archives: April 2008

How We Became Writers

Published in All Grades, Language Arts, Professional on April 29, 2008

Joel Heffner launched a new project called How We Became Writers. Readers, be they young or old, are always asking how writers got started. How We Became Writers answers the question with firsthand information from a variety of writers. Their answers will surprise and entertain you. For example, one became a writer about dogs and cats because of a celebrity’s divorce. Another became a writer because no publisher wanted to publish his book about parachutes.
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The URL: http://www.howwebecamewriters.com

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National Math Trail

Published in All Grades, Math on April 28, 2008

Kelowna teacher, Sharon Affeld, passed on The National Math Trail – “an opportunity for K-12 teachers and students to discover and share the math that exists in their own environments. Students explore their communities and create one or more math problems that relate to what they find. Teachers submit the problems to the National Math Trail site, along with photos, drawings, sound recordings, videos–whatever can be adapted to the Internet.”
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The URL: http://www.nationalmathtrail.org/

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The Gulf Coast Region: Geography, Demographics And The Effects Of Hurricane Katrina

Published in All Grades, Science, Social Studies on April 25, 2008

I find myself in New Orleans this week for a conference, so I thought I’d share some resources on the area.
As everyone knows, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a category 4 storm, slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the U.S., flooding the city of New Orleans and heavily damaging the entire Gulf Coast region, including the cities of Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama. The storm will be the costliest in U.S. history, and has been labeled the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history. Vulnerable because it is below sea level, New Orleans residents and government officials have long known that the threat of flooding in a great storm existed, they were ill-equipped to cope with the devastation caused when Hurricane Katrina caused breaches in the levee system designed to keep the city safe during such storms. Join Lisa Prososki as you work through her lesson to help students understand how this all occurred and how it helped change emergency preparedness in the area.
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The URL: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/socialstudies/katrina.html

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Luling Elementary Technology Projects

Published in Middle Grades, Social Studies on April 24, 2008

I find myself in New Orleans this week for a conference, so I thought I’d share some resources on the area.

I’ve been in touch with Craig Howat from Luling Elementary School in nearby Luling who told me what his students have been up to lately. Direct from Craig, “My students just finished a video ipod walking tour of the French Quarter. They used GPS, Digital and video cameras, voice recorders, handhelds, pedometers and of course their video ipods. We have about 20 video completed and another ? dozen interviews to finish. Our 5th graders loved walking around town watching the movies of their friends (and learning about the history of New Orleans) on the ipods and jamming to some New Orleans music! Laissez les bonne temps roullez!”
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The URL: http://www.stcharles.k12.la.us/webpages/chowat/news.cfm

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