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1. How to Teach English to a French Speaker Learning a new language is not an easy thing. But teaching your mother tongue to someone who never spoke your language is not easy either! In the chart of difficulties in teaching a language, there is one that beats all the others: teaching a foreign...
2. teaching english in japan Feel like a change from the same old routine? Want to experience another culture? Fancy living in another country? Every year, thousands of people arrive in Japan hoping to spend some time as an English teacher. Some already have jobs lined up after...
3. Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool fam...
4. Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
5. How to Write Your Philosophy of Teaching Teachers are often asked for their teaching philosophies as part of completing their education or applying for new jobs. A philosophy of teaching explains your reasons for teaching, a description of how you teach, and justifications for your beliefs...
6. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? How do you feel about Gray Wolves? What do you know about wolves in general? Do wolves really dress in Grandma's clothes and eat little girls? In the Wolf Unit Study you can learn about the anatomy of these fascinating canines, where they live,...
7. Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication. This lens has rhymes, songs and activities for teaching S...
8. Teaching with Picture Books Picture books deserve a place in the upper elementary and middle school grades for a number of reasons. Through this site, I hope to make you a true believer! For those wondering, "Are picture books for me?" I've provided thirteen reason...
9. Wintertime Activities for Kids Winter is the time to snuggle up and with a good book, make a winter table and watch the snowflakes falling down. It's a time when the days are short, the nights are cold and the smell of woodsmoke is in the air. Get ready for the cold with The...
10. Verbs: What ARE You Doing? No matter where or when, verbs are action words. They tell what we are doing, what's happening, or how we are. Whether you are reading, writing or rhyming, Jumping, swimming or crawling, Twittering, Squidooing, or DIGGing, There is a verb tells what...
11. Robin in the Rain! It's springtime and one of the most popular signs of spring is the robin. Robins, with their cheery tweets and bright red breasts stand out against the disappearing snow. Cheerio, calls the robin as the rain starts to fall. This lens is a unit...
12. Interactive Writing Tools How often have you heard students say, "I can't think of anything to write"? The fact is, we can assign incredibly specific, prescriptive prompts, but what does that teach students about creativity? This is where Interactive Writing Tool...
13. Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780 Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
14. Animal Tracks Unit Study When you study nature it is often hard to get close to the animals you are studying but often they leave their tracks. Learning to recognize the tracks of the animals that live near you will let you know which ones are visiting you. Animal tracks ar...
15. Teaching Clay Art and Pottery Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Teaching Clay Art and Pottery. This is another lens in the continuing series of lenses created for clay workers and clay wantabees. This lens will focus on helping clay art educators and teachers find online r...
16. Constitution Lapbook As young future American voters, children need to learn about forms of government, laws, and choices we can make in America. The following is a unit my children and I studied this spring to help them make wise decisions in the coming years.
17. How to Teach a Novel How can a teacher best approach the teaching of a novel? This lens will break it down step by step, from the abstract notion of “What’s worth teaching in this novel?” to the concrete concerns of “How will students be held...
18. Mapping the World Learning map skills can be a fun way to learn about the world. There are many hands-on learning experiences that lead to true understanding of the world, it's countries, political divisions and the ways that countries are divided up into states and p...
19. Fireflies: Twinkling Lights of the Meadow Have you ever gone out on a summer evening to catch fireflies. They flit and fly everywhere. Soon you have five and then six. One escapes and then you catch two more. In the morning you let them go. These wonderful experiences of childhood may be dis...
20. Literacy Bags Make Homework Fun! Book Bags. Home Bags, Book Buddies, Story Bags... Literacy Bags are a fun way to help children share what they are learning with their families. Children take these literacy bags home, read the stories, do the activities with their families and then...