Earthworms are Awesome!

While doing research on earth worms for my e-folio, I found a youtube vidoe on earthworms that was made for Earth Day last year. It is a very interesting video about earthworms, their environment, and their anatomy. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0iOx6nSwz0

EARTH DAY!

Happy Earth Day! Earth Day is a day for loving the Earth. People have been polluting the earth for centuries and it is our duty, as humans, to take care of the earth. It gives us so much and we do not take care of it enough. Here is a link about how the pollute the earth and ways we can help keep the earth clean. Plant a tree!

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Awesome Ideas for Checking for Understanding!

When creating a powerpoint on prezi.com, on the topic of light energy, I cam across a website that provided a lot of great ideas for checking for understanding. I think it provides many interactive ways to check a student's understanding of a topic! I got the idea for the Checking for Understanding from this document. I think it has many good strategies for checking for understanding!
http://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/file/view/strategies.pdf