A science demonstration about forces culminating in a three board palm strike like I learned in Tae Kwon Do.

A stop-motion video explaining the cause of day and night.

Student interpretation of PBIS expectations for our school.

Student interpretation of PBIS expectations at our school.

Student interpretation of PBIS expectations for our school.

Student interpretation of PBIS expectations for our school.

Used pictures to build or review the concept, then shows how to find a common denominator using common multiples.

Learn to use fraction bars to find equivalent fractions.

Learn to multiply a decimal by 10, 100, and 1000.

Uses rounding and/or compatible numbers to find a high and low estimate for a decimal product.

Two examples of how to find the least common multiple or common multiples.

Introduction and examples of the distributive property. Two examples uses the expanded form of the number and one examples uses subtraction. Produced for my 5th grade students.

The video documents the changing location of the sunrise from the same location outside my school for a whole year. I started with the first day of winter and ended on the first day of winter a year later. I was able to get a picture on all of the four special first days of all the seasons.

My class created a scale model of the solar system where 1 yard=14.4 million miles. You'll learn the distances between planets and their sizes at this scale.

Stop motion animation showing a ones cube's journey to becoming a ten, hundred--all the way to a billion cube.

This shows those occasions where you have to add zeros to your answer to accomodate the number of places you have to move over to place the decimal point in the product.

Multiplying decimals times decimals with an emphasis on where to place the decimal in the answer and a discussion on why the answer can be smaller than what you started with.

Multiplying a decimal times a whole number. Examples of the decimal on the top and bottom are used with emphasis on how to place the decimal in the answer.

Explains how to multiply by 2-digit numbers. Shows examples up to 4-digit by 2-digit.

Starts at 1-digit times one-digit and works up to 4-digit times 1-digit.

Created by Ms. Klein for a graduate class called Teaching ESL with Technology. This is a great example of creativity and the power of a digital story to get students engaged. It sets up the conflict with the Colonies and England over freedom of religion and taxes.

Poem by Louise Borden. I've added images to make a movie illustrating the poem. This is the chapter 1 opener poem for the 4th grade Harcourt Social Studies text.

Used the SMART Board to make a cylinder and cone and explain that they are circles or the same of slightly smaller sizes.

This cloud bank was over my school one Friday morning. It appears to be two air masses colliding. It rained the rest of the weekend. The rain was actually the remnants of Hurricane Ike that hit Galveston/Houston, Texas a few days before. Look at the ridge in the bottom of the clouds where they...

Great video on the power of the internet to connect, communicate, and learn from each other. Kind of like we can do on this site!