============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #55** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 5621 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the users of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= **New Additions** *Today In History* Create a new worksheet every day that tells you 5 historical events that took place on that day. http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/today/ *2 New Tutorials* Creative Projects For Kids and Kids' Browsers: To Block or not to Block? Our new tutorials can be found at: http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/ ============================================================= 1. 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Quote of the week- The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual? ~ Albert Einstein ~ ============================================================= 4. Teachers: Check Out The Iron Chef Showdown! Find out whose cuisine reigns supreme in the 21st battle of the century- Iron Chef vs. Bobby Flay in the Iron Chef Rematch, June 3rd, 9-11pm et/pt, only on Food Network! Click below, for FREE: http://by.advertising.com/1/c/22592/20332/58830/58830 ============================================================= AOL users click here ============================================================= 5. Jokes You Can Tell In Class- "Playing Doctor" The seven-year old told her mom that a little boy in her class asked her to play doctor. "Oh, dear," the mother nervously sighed. "What happened, honey?" "Nothing, he made me wait 45 minutes and then double-billed the insurance company." ------------------------------------------------------------- Like Jokes?? Check Out Our Cartoon Of the Day, Click Below: http://www.teach-nology.com/news/ ============================================================= 6. Download of the Week- PC Download: *Research Assistant* "Research Assistant allows students, journalists, researchers and business people alike to collect and amalgamate information of varying types when working on projects. Text, images, web pages, word documents, etc. can be accessed as a composite unit and can each be called up at the press of a button. Projects can quickly and easily be searched for desired keywords or phrases, with all documents matching the query being returned to the user for perusal. No matter where Research Assistant is used - school, university, work or at home, it makes researching any topic much more straight-forward and organised." Note: The Shareware version is limited to 1-project. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Download: *Area Puzzles* "Math program for middle school students. Students are shown a ten by ten grid "sprinkled" with numbers. The students must fill the grid with rectangles so that the area of the rectangle matches the "sprinkled" number inside it. There are twenty puzzles which make good practice for factors, area, and logic." ------------------------------------------------------------- Click Below, To Download These Applications & Others For FREE: http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/ ============================================================= 7. Teachers: More FREE Stuff! 12 CDs for FREE (plus s&h)! What are you waiting for? This great deal alone should be music to your ears. With so many titles to choose from, you’re bound to find some essential titles you just can't live without! 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Ask Our Experts- ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Which is the best software to use to teach 5th grade math?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: It's hard to key in one specific software package, without knowing the specific curriculum you are supplementing. We just did a review on an excellent program entitled "Math Basics" from KIDware. It does an excellent job of engaging students in mathematics. It's also very economical at $14.95. You can find their web site here: http://www.kidwaresoftware.com/ ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Where can I find an example of time line. I am in college and taking History 101 and we have to do a timeline. 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By: Amy Cahill, 7th/8th grade: St. Mary Magdalene "Instead of giving my students a huge test over the planets as we finish the unit, I put them in groups and they had to pick a planet and do a power point presentation on the planet. I used a rubric I found here at TeAch-nology and grade while they present it. Works great! My grading time is virtually cut down 75%. They kids love it and feel they learned more than they would have with a test. 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