by Emily Starr | Jan 15, 2020 | Behind the Scenes of StarrMatica
My favorite movie of all time is “The Wizard of Oz.” As a little girl, I used to dress up like Dorothy and watch a VHS tape of the movie my parents recorded when it aired on television. If you’ve seen the movie, you know that near the end, Toto pulls back the...
by Emily Starr | Jan 8, 2020 | Lesson Ideas and Teaching Tips
3-PS2-3 Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other. As we create informational texts for each of the Next Generation Science Standards, there are tons of amazing,...
by Emily Starr | Dec 23, 2019 | Lesson Ideas and Teaching Tips
It sounds like a silly question if you are a teacher. We know students need to understand what they read, but maybe you haven’t stopped to really think about the question in awhile. It may seem counterintuitive, but just because your students read fluently doesn’t...
by Emily Starr | Nov 26, 2019 | Behind the Scenes of StarrMatica
There is never enough time! As a fourth-grade teacher, I felt the time squeeze every day in my classroom; not enough time to prepare meaningful lessons, not enough time to teach and not enough time to address individual student needs. Five years into teaching, I was...
by Emily Starr | Jan 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here are five pieces of digital content a teacher might choose from StarrMatica’s library to use social studies manipulatives to foster concept development. Map Maker Interactive Create a customized map! Zoom in to a chosen area of the United States. Then select the...
