Sun.Mar 09, 2025

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5 Activities for Early Finishers in Social Studies Class

Thrive in Grade Five

It’s a fact of life, when you assign work or projects in social studies class, you’ll have early finishers. What should you do with them? Let them hang out and talk? Ummm, no, that’s just asking for classroom management nightmares. When you fail to set procedures for students, they’ll create their own procedures 100% of the time, so make sure students know what assignments they must complete and what they are able to do once finished with their required work.

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Easy Application of Interleaving in the Classroom

The Effortful Educator

Ive been reading research and writing about it on this website for around eight years. Ive written numerous times on learning strategies such as retrieval practice , spaced practice , dual coding , and much, much more. But, one strategy that has never featured on any article Ive written is interleaving. Go ahead, do a keyword search for it here. There may be an article where it is mentioned, but Ive never looked at any research and considered how to use it appropriately in my classes.

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5 Ways CapCut Pro Can Improve Your Social Media Content

TeachThought

Social media content creators make anywhere from $500 to $50,000+ monthly.

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Grist on Recycling

Living Geography

A useful piece on Grist looked at plastics and recycling and the inevitability of waste. Students didn't really 'get' this when we discussed mobile phones recently. "we sold our old phone we didn't give it away.". OK, so what did the person you sold the phone do when they'd finished with it. and the person after that. Do iPhone 3s still work? ".a small number of researchers and environmental advocates, who are concerned with reducing waste more broadly, think the word should refer only to the co

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Concert tourism

O-Level Geography

When will Lady Gaga's concert in Singapore be held? How does event like this help to increase the growth of tourism in Singapore?

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Becoming Led Zeppelin

Living Geography

Cross-posting from my Cultural Geography and Geography on / in Film blogs. I saw this film a few weeks' ago and it's well worth seeing for those who like their music. It's based around interviews with the three surviving members and taped interviews with John Bonham. It features their early careers, the circumstances of their meeting and working together.

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Tropical cyclone Alfred

O-Level Geography

Where were the areas affected by Tropical cyclone Alfred? What were the impacts brought by the Tropical cyclone? Why does climate change bring more frequent and intensified tropical cyclones?

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10 lives, 5 years later: How the pandemic altered the futures of these parents, kids and educators

The Hechinger Report

At first, it was supposed to last just a few weeks. Mayors and superintendents around the country announced schools would shut temporarily to halt the spread of a deadly virus that had officially been named COVID-19 on Feb. 11, 2020. Many school districts hustled to get laptops and other devices to students and shifted learning online, even as educators warned that remote education would exacerbate inequalities.

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