K-12 Teaching Tips
These tips are provided by Professor Diana Spillman of Miami University of Ohio.
Cheese Please
This experiment can be used with just about any age group--from elementary school to the university level. It can even be used with adults in workshops. It is simple and inexpensive.
City of the Future
This is a project that can be accomplished in a number of different classes. It could be an assignment in a writing class, sociology, economics, psychology, civics or could be adapted to just about any courses.
Fire Safety Education
Every year a number of children are burnt or even killed in a fire at their home. Even if the child is not physically harmed the trauma can leave the child frightened for life about fire.
Food as Science
A group of ideas that use foods as the basis of science. The quick experiments can be used with different levels by changing the strength of expectations and sophistication of the experiment.
Hot Rocks
Budgets are tight and it is difficult to have art projects, but this one is almost free. This can be used for kindergarten through 8th grade.
Let's make bread today.
This is suitable for a kindergarten class or up to about the third grade. This could also be used in a class for senior citizens.
The Day the Hurricane Hit Ohio.
On Sunday, September 21 the remnants of Hurricane Ike hit the Miami Valley in Ohio. Multiple million dollars worth of damage occurred and the electricity in the
area was off between 12 hours and 6 days.
Tree of Life
Students can do this in health classes or in history classes.
What can you do when the "helicopter" hits you!
Have you ever had a really, really, really bad day at school? A day, where you are late, the coffee machine doesn't work, two students cry, the copier is broken, and a "helicopter" parent tells you how to run your class!
Who Are You? Learning the Names of Your Students: Tricks of the Trade.
In a classical piece of literature Don Juan dies and is imprisoned in hell. His punishment is to view all the lovely women he knew in life, but not to be able to recall their names. This is a nightmare for all teachers. Especially if we have multiple classes of 30, 40 or 50 and they change from semester to semester. Here are a few ideas on how to remember your student’s names.
Angels Unaware - Teaching Kindness
Kindness, is one of the components that can be counted in group projects, collaborative work or other classroom conditions.
Wood You
A list of potential learning activities that could be planned using a log in a class.
