Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.4

April 2008

	Cover Story by Marvin Marshall
	Immaculate Perception
	There is no such thing as immaculate perception. What you see is what you thought before you looked.
	Harry & Rosemary Wong
	Effective Teaching
	Schools That Beat the Academic Odds
	Columns
»	Are We Demanding Enough of Our Students?
»	The Busy Educator's Monthly Five
»	Podcasting 101
»	Think Outside the Box
»	Problem-Based Learning Part 2: Good problems
»	Ten Ways to Foster Resiliency in Children
	Articles
»	Finger in the Dike Protects Half the Kingdom
»	April 2008 Writing Prompts
»	Amusing Abacus
»	Making the Grade
»	The Disrespecting of Social Studies
»	Classroom Magazines: More Than Just Shared Reading
»	The Silenced Majority
»	I Won't Learn What You Teach!
»	Dear Laura Bush
»	Choice, Access, and Relevance: Reading Workshop in the High School Classroom
»	Stay Inside the Lines
»	Chat with Grant Writing Expert LaVerne Hamlin
»	Proofreading and Learning Disability
»	Choose-a-Chart
»	Drexel Online Education Program
	Features
»	Featured Lessons: April 2008
»	Video Bytes: Abbott and Costello, Earth Day rant and more
»	Today Is... Daily Commemoration for April 2008
»	Live on Teachers.Net: April 2008
»	The Lighter Side of Teaching
»	Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers
»	HELP! Grading: How Do You Do It?
»	Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers

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Featured Lessons... Teachers.Net Favorite

April Theme Lesson Plans The focus this month is on Earth Day and Ecology

from the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Regular Feature in the Gazette April 1, 2008

From the Teachers.Net Lessons Bank: Earth Day/Earth Protectors Earth Day Earth Day compilation Measuring the Earth Earth's Atmosphere How Much Garbage Do We Produce? Rainforest theme Air Pollution Making paper Arbor Day cloze Learn About War Through Personal Stories Teachers.Net Resources Teachers.Net Earth Day/Eco Chatboard at http://teachers.net/projects/earthday Teachers.Net Earth Day Mailring http://teachers.net/mailrings April showers rainbow recipe for the classroom http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02/recipes.html April crafts http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02/crafts.html From the Archives: Earth Day activities http://teachers.net/archive/ec032100.html Earth Day & Recycling activities http://teachers.net/archive/ec032399.html Alternatives to Field Trips http://teachers.net/archive/ec030700.html Teaching Map Skills http://teachers.net/archive/ec032800.html Earth/Eco books (annotated list) http://teachers.net/archive/envirobks.html Going Buggy! Insect theme http://teachers.net/archive/ec041399.html April Themes http://teachers.net/archive/ec033099.html Other Helpful Sites: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency free materials http://www.epa.gov/epahome/educational.htm National Arbor Day Foundation http://www.arborday.org/ » More Gazette articles... http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm

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