What a great idea! Here’s hoping that any assigned homework has long been done and you all had a relaxing Sunday. Read more about the assignment and its full story here.  

“At the end of the 2016 school year, my fifth-grade students scored an average of 85 percent on the state science exam, while my school as a whole scored 58 percent. It’s important to remember that every child is different and learns differently. Relating classroom lessons to real life helps students at any level connect …

“President’s Day is a great a time to teach about research and the selection process.” Is it relevant, appropriate, does it have detail, is it current, who is the authority, and is there any bias? This article outlines an excellent way to determine fact from fiction.  

Here are some tips to make the speech-to-text technology more user friendly. Have you found anything else to be particularly helpful? Read the full article here.

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I get asked a lot about the type of music that might help or interfere with learning.  This article suggests that playing music and other medium level sounds in art class may help to boost creativity.  However, music with acoustic variation interfered with working memory tasks like mental math.  Also, songs with lyrics interfered with …

Memory and Study Skills by Kendra Cherry -Here are some great suggestions for improving retention of information while studying.