Author: DE Staff
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-10-07 17:41:39 Source link
Physical, or concrete, manipulatives are physical objects that are used as teaching tools to engage students in the hands-on learning of mathematics to introduce math concepts. It’s important for children to have a variety of materials to manipulate and the opportunity to sort, classify, weigh, stack, and explore to help them construct their own mathematical thinking and knowledge with Cuisenaire Rods, Base 10 Blocks, and Fraction Circles.Virtual manipulatives are cognitive technological tools that are a dynamic visual representation of physical manipulatives which can be operated through a computer mouse (or a finger on a tablet) to slide, flip, and turn…
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-09-27 08:00:10 Source link
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-09-17 01:51:49 Source link
Small group instruction and cooperative learning can significantly impact student achievement, and because small group instruction is a highly effective differentiating instructional strategy, it is widely used in elementary classrooms. Teachers who already use this strategy know that successful implementation doesn’t happen overnight. The work involved in preparing students to operate within a small group […] The post Small Group Instruction as a Differentiating Strategy appeared first on Discovery Education Blog. DE Staff 2024-09-09 14:16:49 Source link
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-08-20 09:00:00 Source link
Emotional EngagementEmotions play a critical role in memory retention and learning motivation. When students are emotionally engaged, they are more likely to invest effort and curiosity in the subject matter. Stories, as we all know, have the power to evoke powerful emotions and leave lasting impressions on us all. DE Staff 2024-08-20 08:58:00 Source link
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-07-31 18:30:29 Source link
Since ancient times, architects have used geometric principles to plan the shapes and spatial forms of buildings. In 300 B.C., the Greek mathematician Euclid defined a mathematical law of nature called the Golden Ratio. For more than two thousand years, architects have used this formula to design proportions in buildings that look pleasing to the human eye and feel balanced. It is also known as the Golden Constant because it manifests literally everywhere.The Golden Ratio still serves as a basic geometric principle in architecture. You could even call it a timeless archetype, as it evokes in human beings a universal…
The Discovery Education blog is a free resource for educators to find time-saving teaching strategies and compelling content for their daily lessons.Full of timely tips, high-quality DE resources, and advice from our DEN community, these posts are meant to entertain and inform our users while supporting educators everywhere with new ways to engage their students in and out of the classroom. DE Staff 2024-05-21 20:37:25 Source link