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THREE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY DO COOL SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS BY JEWEL PASTOR OF JEWELSCHOOLGEMS.COM | Do you enjoy doing cool science experiments with your students? I know I did. Here are three reasons why you should, too.

3 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY DO COOL SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

Do you enjoy doing cool science experiments with your students?  I know I did when I was still teaching in the classroom. There were times that I wanted to pull my hair out, because the school didn’t have the equipment I needed, or I forgot to bring one of the ingredients that would actually make the experiment work. Despite those…
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HOW TO TEACH THE WATER CYCLE FOR KIDS

What is the Water Cycle and Why is it Important? The water cycle is the journey that water takes from land to sky, which also includes the different physical forms that water appears in as it repeats that cycle. Every living thing needs water to survive, which makes an understanding of how water naturally supports all life on this planet…
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HOW TO FIT EVERYTHING IN A WORKING DAY (WHEN THERE’S SO MUCH TO DO!) BY JEWEL PASTOR OF WWW.JEWELSCHOOLGEMS.COM | Raise your hand if you’re exhausted at the end of each day. Raise your hand again if you did NOT get everything you want done, well, done in school. If you raised your hand twice, you’re not alone. I’m pretty sure many teachers like you feel the same way. Why even I know the feeling very well - that feeling of being soooo dead tired and frustrated at the same time because I wasn’t able to do as much I wanted for the day in school and I would have to spend some time at home catching up. For the longest time in my teaching career, I was staying up late at night trying to finish everything I had to do. It worked quite fine for some time until my baby came. If you’re a working mother, you know very well that working (again) at home with a baby is just next to impossible. In my last year of teaching, I decided not to work when I get home at all and tried to fit as much as I can in a working day. How was I able to do it? Well, read on, girlfriend.

HOW TO FIT EVERYTHING IN A WORKING DAY (When There’s So Much To Do!)

Raise your hand if you’re exhausted at the end of each day. Raise your hand again if you did NOT get everything you wanted done, well, done in school. If you raised your hand twice, you’re not alone.  I’m pretty sure many teachers like you feel the same way.  Why even I know the feeling very well – that feeling…
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  • Unplugged Coding Activities sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? Or at the very least, a backwards way of teaching a skill. If you have yet to try Unplugged Coding Activities, you may be thinking (like I did!) “You want me to teach computer skills without a computer?” Yes! Yes, I do. Trust me – this is the best way to begin and reinforce coding skills! Coding is more than learning a language – rather it involves problem solving, critical thinking, logic and reasoning.
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