Sun, Nov 27, 2016 6:22 PM in Museum Trips
There's not much the teacher can do in this situation (as far as the trip goes). Students who do not return their permission slips are legally not allowed to go on the trip. However, the teacher should have something planned for just such an occasion. Even though students could not go on the field trip does not mean that they should not have some sort of an educational experience that day in schoo...
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Sun, Nov 27, 2016 6:17 PM in Animal Habitats Activities
A fun idea for first graders who may not be able to go outside the classroom is to decorate various sections of the room as different habitats. Students could be in charge of designing and researching what animals live in their habitats. You may also be able to decorate different activity centers as habitats and then refer to those habitats for the remainder of the school year. This could prove to...
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Thu, Oct 27, 2016 1:46 PM in Gardening in the Classroom
I really like this idea and I am currently in the process of designing a lesson plan where the students will be both building their garden boxes and planting various types of vegetables in those boxes. The goal of this project is to show how students who live in metropolitan areas can still grow their own gardens despite limited space. The boxes we will be designing will be able to be removed and ...
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