TEACHER.NET LESSON BANK RECEIVES 600TH "DEPOSIT" - TEACHERS.NET hit 600 recently when "Mary K&1" (a kindergarten/grade one teacher) posted lesson #600 to the site's Lesson Bank. Mary's contribution, "How Do You Do?" is described as a game that helps young elementary students learn classmates' names using a variation of the classic "Drop the Handkerchief". It takes its place in a cyber-collection that also aids educators who wish to introduce Mendelian genetics using fiction, or want to create a rainbow in a jar.

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TEACHER.NET LESSON BANK RECEIVES 600TH "DEPOSIT"

SAN DIEGO, CA -- Teachers.Net hit 600 recently when "Mary K&1" (a kindergarten/grade one teacher) posted lesson #600 to the site's Lesson Bank. Mary's contribution, "How Do You Do?" is described as a game that helps young elementary students learn classmates' names using a variation of the classic "Drop the Handkerchief". It takes its place in a cyber-collection that also aids educators who wish to introduce Mendelian genetics using fiction, or want to create a rainbow in a jar.
The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank at http://teachers.net/lessons is a searchable collection of activities and lessons for use with students in preschool through advanced levels. Sorted by grade level and curriculum categories, the collection allows educators to easily access information about lessons and activities on topics as diverse as "Politically Correct Fairy Tales" and "Finding the Surface Area of a Sphere" or "Herman the Worm Chant" and 'Beethoven's Symphony Number 9". Typing in a search on the topic "conflict" returns listings for lessons on "Conflict & Cooperation" and "Themes In Romeo and Juliet".
Should browsing or searching fail to produce what lesson-needy teachers need, they can click over to the Lesson Request Board. Here is the opportunity to add their topics to the list that currently includes pleas for help with lessons on Kinetic and Potential Energy, rubberband vehicles, Kwanzaa, and "anything related to themes in Mice and Men". Like all resources at Teachers.Net, this feature is available free of charge to anyone who visits the site.
And visit the site they do, around the clock - at the rate of more than 4,200 users each day. The heavy "traffic" that flows through 24 hours a day is due to the global reach of Teachers.Net. In addition to all of North America, users log on from time zones in New Zealand, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, United Kingdom, South Africa, Russia, Japan, Malaysia and many more. The diverse population of users fosters a sharing and comparing of a variety of information. Recently a U.S. visitor in one of the chatrooms asked a teacher posting from the Netherlands, "Does anyone there really wear wooden shoes?" Another lesson about to be shared via Teachers.Net!

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