by Emily Starr | May 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
StarrMatica’s K-2 Lesson on Compare and Contrast launched last month! Students join Henry on a class trip to the zoo to compare and contrast animals! Throughout the lesson students learn how to compare and contrast with pictures, stories, and a venn diagram. A few...
by Emily Starr | Apr 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Deanna Stoube loves challenging herself to create lessons that engage young learners in a story and teaches them a strategy/skill along the way. When she was a classroom teacher she would use themes to create environments to support the lessons she would teach. For...
by Emily Starr | Mar 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is the final in a series of six posts dedicated to Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills with Interactive Online Content. Five previous posts on remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating can be viewed here, here, here,...
by Emily Starr | Mar 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
StarrMatica’s K-2 Lesson on Counting has launched! Students join Madeline as she helps in her aunt and uncle’s candy shop. Throughout the lesson students learn: the count sequence to 10 the last number in the count is the total how to count starting at a number other...
by Emily Starr | Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
When Debra Housel started her career in education 30 years ago, computers were only used in programming classes. Programmers would keypunch their instructions on paper cards and submit them, in correct order, to the central processing center that held room-sized...
by Emily Starr | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is the fifth in a series of six posts dedicated to Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills with Interactive Online Content. Four previous posts on remembering, understanding, applying, and analyzing can be viewed here, here, here, and here. Level...