Elementary Statistics

For younger children it helps to have more of a variety–basic supplies can go a long way if you have the right crafts in mind. Do not be afraid to be messy-even in high school art classes they use drop cloths while working. Although you and your students can be very creative with these basic supplies, you want to have more options available for you–and the way to do that is to obtain the best art supplies you can for your shcool there are–and not just the basic ones.

If paints are not on your list of art supplies–they should be. The younger kids can do great things with finger-paints and watercolors. With these kinds of artistic tools the students can learn lessons about the color wheel. For example: using primary colors of finger-paints, show your students how you can mix primary colors to make secondary colors. This way they … Read more

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Even though it has been around for decades, coteaching is now emerging as one of the most popular buzzwords in education, specifically at the high school level. It has been a proven strategy in the elementary setting, and now secondary administrators are beginning to utilize the philosophy to improve instruction and reap the same benefits that surfaced in the elementary schools. The problem with coteaching in secondary schools is the same with most elementary school philosophies that are forced into the high school ranks; teachers are not ready or willing to accept the change and the administration assumes that they are, and there is insufficient training before the philosophy is applied.

Teaching is an isolated profession, especially at the secondary level. Programs such as grade-level teaming and team teaching have only recently penetrated the walls of American high schools. High school teachers have stereotypically developed a possessive mentality over their … Read more

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Here are two easy activities for elementary students to show the concepts of Cohesion and Adhesion.

COHESION

“NIAGARA FALLS”

MATERIALS

One penny
Eyedropper
Liquid detergent

PROCEDURE

Ask, “How many drops of water do you think you can put on this penny without the it dropping off the edge?” Place the penny flat on a smooth surface. With eyedropper, drip the liquid onto the penny one drop at a time, counting the drops, until it spills off the edge.

Take the same coin and rub detergent on it.

Predict the number of drops of water you can put on the penny now, without it spilling over the edge.

Using the eyedropper, drip the liquid onto the penny and count the drops.

EXPLANATION

Water molecules have a strong cohesion, or attraction, to other water molecules. This cohesive force of the like-molecules forms the skin-like surface of the liquid, called surface tension. Soap … Read more

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Education is one of the most important things that should be provided to children. Getting an education will basically allow them to prepare themselves for the different challenges that they will be facing when they grow up and start their own careers. Now, I may be talking way ahead of time in here but I know that you are pretty much aware of this reality. Even though a lot of kids are getting an education nowadays, the quality of such may not be that good especially in public schools where facilities may not be enough to cater to the different learning needs of students. This is why a lot of parents are now working hand in hand with the teachers and administrators of the schools of their children to build up campaigns to the money needed for different school projects and facilities. If you have been thinking about starting a … Read more

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Fundraiser ideas come in large numbers however; you won’t make a single one of them work if you don’t make the whole experience fun for your volunteers. Making things fun for your members will enable you to motivate them to work harder to achieve the goals and objectives that you have set. One of the best ways you can do this is through taking pictures during the course of elementary school fundraiser. Pictures serve as memoirs of the different things that you and your group were able to go through and the things you were able to achieve.

You can take pictures when your members are hard at work in making your fundraiser ideas effective and profitable. After you take the pictures, be sure to post them so that all of your volunteers can enjoy looking at them. Aside from letting your members take a look at their pictures, you … Read more

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One of the hardest subjects to get students to participate in is art. Most of them by the age of eight or nine have already decided whether they are good at it or not. If they feel that they are not good they will stop unless encouraged to participate in art. These students will participate in art history lessons. They will read the text book, but when it comes to putting pencil to paper they hesitate, big time.

Many of these students have noticed that their work is not as good as someone elses, or that their picture does not look like the real thing and many other reasons which they will not tell you. So they stop or they do a project half heartedly and get it out of the way quickly.

I can relate to how they feel. Many of you know how they feel. When I would … Read more

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