Summary: MSM 263: How do I love thee? Let me calculate the snow days . . . Presented in collaboration with the Association for Middle Level Education. Jokes You Can Use: The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, so Gomer, who was not exactly the sharpest nail in the bucket, went in to try out for the job. "Okay," the sheriff drawled, "Gomer, what is 1 and 1?" "11" he replied. The sheriff thought to himself, "That's not what I meant, but he's right. What two days of the week start with the letter 'T'?" "Today and tomorrow." The sheriff was again surprised that Gomer supplied a correct answer that he had never thought of himself. "Now Gomer, listen carefully: Who killed Abraham Lincoln?" Gomer looked a little surprised himself, then thought really hard for a minute and finally admitted, "I don't know." "Well, why don't you go home and work on that one for a while?" So, Gomer wandered over to the barbershop where his pals were waiting to hear the results of the interview. Gomer was exultant. "It went great! First day on the job and I'm already working on a murder case!" At school one morning the teacher asked little Johnny what he had for breakfast. Little Johnny said, well, on my way to school I come cross this Apple tree, so I climbed up there and started eating apples. I guess I eat about six, said little Johnny. No, said the teacher, it’s ate! Little Johnny said well it could've been eight I don't remember. Q. What did the traffic light say to the other traffic light? A. Don’t look now am changing! Q: What kind of insects to you find on the Moon. A: Lunar Ticks (Lunatics) Q. Why did the kid eat his homework? A. His teacher said it was a piece of cake. Eileen Award: iTunes: Twitter: Shawn Davids, Middle Grades Ed UGA, Google+: Jaguar Ed, Facebook: Advisory: One Job Have students write a story about one of the pictures. http://hadonejob.com/ Middle School Science Minute by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com) Science Literacy I was recently reading the November, 2013 issue of Science Scope, a magazine for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association. I then read the article "Building Science Literacy by Reading: Science News" written by Kent Schielke, a 7th-8th grade science teacher in Naperville, IL. Every year, she challenges her 8th graders with the question, "Where will you get your information about new science after you take your last science class." She then shares the assignment that she uses to help her students answer this question. From the Twitterverse: #mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. Strategies: Club Academia http://clubacademia.org/ Five Tools That Help Students Plan Stories As a student the importance of planning a story before writing it was driven into my head. Then when I became a teacher, I drove that same message home to my students. Here are five free tools that students can use to plan and outline their stories. Storybuilder. Story Map ACMI Storyboard Generator Storyboard That Cube Creators http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/five-tools-that-help-students-plan.html#.UrW-a2RDu8s Resources: Snow Day Calculator http://www.snowdaycalculator.com/calculator.php Free Images from the British Library http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html Web Spotlight: AMLE 2013 Annual Conference Flipped Classrooms in the Middle Level Nichole Carter (@MrsCarterHLA) Random Thoughts . . . Moodle https://moodle.org/
