Tag: school
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Teacher’s Check-In Chart For Students To Share Their Feelings Goes Viral
More and more people are using whatever platform they have to speak out about mental health awareness, whether they are celebrities or people with a large social media following – this kind of visibility is important to people who have felt alone. English special education teacher Erin Castillo decided to use her classroom as her…
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This Amazing School Play Of ‘Alien’ Had No Budget And Used Trash To Make Costumes
Many people say that kids are the future and it’s hard to disagree when they show how truly creative, innovative and dedicated they are. New Jersey’s North Bergen High School drama club students recently proved that when they performed their own take on the 1979 science fiction horror classic Alien. The group turned Ridley Scott’s…
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An Illustrated Periodic Table Helps Show You How Elements Are Part of Everyday Life
If you struggled through Science Class like we did, one of your biggest problems was understanding the periodic table. Created to give an order to chemical elements according to their atomic number, chemical properties, and electron configurations, the scheme has been in use since the mid-1800s. And now, the table has gotten an update to…
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Not Everyone Spent the Next 20 Years Trying to Forget About the First 10 – A Story About Bullying
Bullying can have a lasting effect on a person’s mental health: A new study finds that children who were bullied frequently when they were 8 years old were more likely to develop a psychiatric disorder that needed treatment as an adult, compared with kids who were not bullied. The scientists also found strong evidence that…
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Teacher Uses LEGO to Teach His Students Mathematics!
If you were like us when you were at school, numbers didn’t come easy. Times tables? Gah. Algebra? Eek. Calculus? Forget about it. However teacher Alycia Zimmerman has come up with an ingenious method of engaging her students while at the same time teaching them mathematics. Using LEGO, Alycia is able to explain fractions, adding and subtracting,…
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A Photographic Series of School Lunches From Around The World
Remember the days as a kid when you used to trade your lunch with your friends for something better, something different, or to avoid a wedgie? We definitely wouldn’t have thought twice in handing over our peanut butter and sliced cheese in white bread sandwich if some of these options were open to trade! An…