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kids learn allnew physical skills and watching their confidence in themselves and their abilities grow. I spent three years after this working in theater education combining my love of the fun and exciting things they could dotheater with my love of teaching and encouraging children to explore and develop their bodies. Now, aspersonal creativity.
As a 3rd teacher, I love helping kids learn all ofam excited to guide my students as they explore the funworld around them through reading, writing, science, math and exciting things they can do with their minds.social studies. . I am and resources you can use for projects of your own. You can post questions about any ofpromoting active learning in the things you find on this page and have discussions with your classmates.classroom.

Stanford Teaching Commons Active Learning
This website explains the idea behind active learning and why it is important. It also includes strategies and lesson plans which bring active learning into the classroom.
University of MichicganMichigan Active Learning
This page includes links to various articles about active learning as well as videos which demonstrate active learning. It can assist in exploring the value of and applications of active learning from both an academic and practical viewpoint.
Edutopia Inquiry Based Learning

Active Learning
Active learning places a high value on student engagement and experience. Through active learning, the teacher acts as a guide, crating experiences where students encounter the concepts they are being asked to learn and can then construct their own understanding. rather than the teacher simply telling the students what they should learn, the students get to discover new information for themselves.
The following are resources which can assist teachers in finding ideas for active learning:
Stanford Teaching Commons Active Learning
This website explains the idea behind active learning and why it is important. It also includes strategies and lesson plans which bring active learning into the classroom.
University of Michicgan Active Learning
This page includes links to various articles about active learning as well as videos which demonstrate active learning. It can assist in exploring the value of and applications of active learning from both an academic and practical viewpoint.
Edutopia Inquiry Based Learning
Edutopia is a website dedicated to helping teachers by providing ideas for the classroom ranging from lesson plans to classroom management tips. While they do not use the term 'active learning' they do have a category of resources under 'inquire based learning' which is certainly a type of active learning. Under this category, you will find both articles about the importance of inquiry based learning as well as ideas for implementing this in the classroom.
Teaching Community 40 Active Learning Strategies
Teaching Community is a site which enables teacher to share resources with each other. This particular article offers up 40 different adaptable strategies for incorporating active learning in the classroom.

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can get during their first year of teachingfrom being exposed
Both Tracy and Soren believed strongly in the importance of keeping hydrated and drank plenty of water. Additionally, both Soren and Tracy drank Emergen-C, a powdered Vitamin C substance you can add to your water, every day to help stay healthy and prevent their risk of catching viruses.
One month into student teaching, Soren and Tracy found that their health was pretty stable, but they were both feeling incredibly stressed. Tracy had read about the effects of stress on health and talked to Soren about potential strategies they could use to relieve their stress. Soren brought up how soothing it felt to take a bath. Tracy agreed and the two decided to add baths to their self-care regimens.
While Soren was bathing in just water, Tracy thought that since Emergen-C helped keep her healthy when she drank it, maybe it would have health benefits if she bathed in it as well. She began buying the powder in bulk and adding it to her baths. Soren and Tracy continued to keep in touch about their health and general well-being,
a teacher. Since the only big difference in their routines was the kind of liquid they were bathing in, Tracy wondered iffigured the decrease in her energy must be due to adding Emergen-C in her bath. She took a closer look at the ingredients and saw that while it contained many different vitamins, the main ingredient was sugar. She reflected that while ingesting this beverage may help her, bathing in a sugary substance was certainly not the best for health. It also left her feeling very sticky afterwards and she had noticed a consistent halo of flies hovering near her.
Tracy discussed this with Soren, switched to taking just baths and felt full of energy and vigor for the rest of her first year as a teacher!
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The story of two grow beats, trying to stay healthy during their first year teaching...
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Two dinosaurs, Tracy Cera and Soren Stego, had recently become teachers and were headed into their first year of teaching. Both we very excited for their first year as teachers but both had also heard all the stories about just how sick teachers can get during their first year of teaching being exposed to so many germs from so many children. Tracy and Soren were close friends during their teacher training program and wanted to support each other during their first year of teaching. They discussed strategies that would help them stay healthy.
Both Tracy and Soren believed strongly in the importance of keeping hydrated and drank plenty of water. Additionally, both Soren and Tracy drank Emergen-C, a powdered Vitamin C substance you can add to your water, every day to help stay healthy and prevent their risk of catching viruses.
One month into student teaching, Soren and Tracy found that their health was pretty stable, but they were both feeling incredibly stressed. Tracy had read about the effects of stress on health and talked to Soren about potential strategies they could use to relieve their stress. Soren brought up how soothing it felt to take a bath. Tracy agreed and the two decided to add baths to their self-care regimens.
While Soren was bathing in just water, Tracy thought that since Emergen-C helped keep her healthy when she drank it, maybe it would have health benefits if she bathed in it as well. She began buying the powder in bulk and adding it to her baths. Soren and Tracy continued to keep in touch about their health and general well-being,
Over time, Tracy noticed a difference in her general energy. She felt sluggish and her energy level was miniscule in comparison with Soren's. Soren however, was feeling very perky and effective as a teacher. Tracy wondered if adding

As an exit ticket to transition to the next activity, each group will consult their completed column to answer a multiplication word problem about the number they have been working on
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Thoughts on Lesson and Futurepencils.
Future Extension of this Lesson in the Classroom
This lesson would be added to over following days. A large class anchor chart multiplication table would be created and added to as each student parte3nership would get a chance to present the numbers for their column of the table. As each student partnership presented, and added their numbers to the class table, students would add these numbers to their personal multiplication charts and continue decorating them. Students would use their personal multiplication charts to go on scavenger hunts, finding groups of items that could be represented by multiplication problems within the classroom and within the school.