K-12 Articles

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 2:52 PM

Self-esteem is a valuing process and results from an ongoing self-appraisal in which traits and abilities are acknowledged and evaluated (Webster's Dictionary 1999. Self-esteem is importantly made up of self-image: how one views themselves. . and self concept: the ideas one may have about themselves. Between the ages of one and five, children progress from an awareness that they are independent individuals to trying to understand who they are and how they relate to others. In this p... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 2:25 PM

Cultural differences in communicating are important for a teacher to understand because cross-cultural communication abounds in early childhood classrooms. Its goals include communicating despite differences, cooperating for multicultural unity, and respecting the values of others. Culture is defined as all the activities and achievements of a society that individuals within the society pass from one generation to the next. Ethnic origin is often a basic ingredient in subculture g... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 12:58 PM

Between ages two and five, most physical developments occur rapidly. The most obvious physical developments are changes in body size and shape. More crucial changes involve the maturation of the brain and central nervous system. This maturation allows the mastery of motor skills that sets the five year old apart from a toddler. During the preschool year children become slimmer as the lower body grows and some of the fat from infancy is burned off. The five year old child no longer has the... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 12:48 PM

What are the six reasons for teaching the English Language? To improve morality, to prepare good workers, to create an elite, to produce good citizens, to foster personal growth, and to offset inequity. The first reason for teaching English is to improve morality. The connection to the term literacy is piety or devotion. If we create a truly moral learner, we have done our service to mankind. Moral learners create true champions of the best kind. Second, English must prepare good ... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 13th August 2007 @ 11:04 AM

Writing in "journals" or "journal time" was one of my favorite subjects growing up in school. I can remember looking forward to the comments the teachers would write daily in my journals. As years passed on in grade school, I grew accustomed to positive grades and opinions being given to me on my journal entries. I can remember when journal writing was a must do all the way up to attending high school. When I entered college, journals became non-mandatory. What a shame.more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Wednesday, 8th August 2007 @ 8:53 PM

Kohlberg asserts that development occurs through six stages of increasing complexity, from what "might make right decisions" to the recognition of universal ethical principles. A lot of other theorists set out levels of criticisms against it. Kohlberg's theory seems to be generally valid, and although males and females may analyze moral problems somewhat differently, neither sex is generally more competent at resolving moral dilemmas. The development of moral actions,... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 6th August 2007 @ 7:23 PM

Teaching reading and writing in the classroom is like being a drill sergeant in the U.S. Army. As it pertains to writing, drill sergeants would do repetition, model, and show their soldiers how to make a paragraph They would do so in a manner that would command attention and they would lead by example. No one would dare stop or interrupt them in the process of teaching. In paragraphing, drill sergeants would model how to do a paragraph, then they would meticulously inspect everyone's... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Don Alexander @ Monday, 6th August 2007 @ 7:22 PM

Webster's dictionary defines English as the application to apply the principles of English pronunciation, spelling, etc. (Webster's 2004). The English language has clearly changed in pronunciation over the years. For example, the sentence, "Mom, do you wish me to unload the groceries?" is now said shorter like: "Ma, do ya want me to get the bags?" In our fast past society, we sometimes forget to utilize proper English and indeed some of us have forgotten to use ... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Sarah Jones @ Tuesday, 26th June 2007 @ 10:37 PM

There is no doubt in anyone's mind that the internet is here to stay. More than 75% of U.S. homes have at least one personal computer, and that number is rising every single day. But, many parents may be unaware of the extent that the internet plays in your child's education. It is now becoming routine for each and every classroom to come equipped with computers. Lesson plans on technology and activities may be centered on PC's and your child will be expected to show up ... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Alec Moreland @ Saturday, 23rd June 2007 @ 12:13 AM

The type of Fundraiser to avoid when students are involved is the donation based fundraiser. This is for a myriad of reasons which will be discussed shortly. But first it's important to establish what exactly a donation based fundraiser is as no fundraising company will usually admit to running such an operation. A donation based fundraiser is one in which money is solicited and no product is in fact sold. It's pretty simple; if you as a teacher or coach are sending students ou... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Thursday, 21st June 2007 @ 3:31 PM

The average car driver spends about 14 days of his/her life waiting for traffic signals to turn from red to green. If you listened to books on tape while waiting you could "read" about 70 books during this time. In 1997 about 500 people in China were able to ski. Now in 2007, over 5 million Chinese will spend time on the slopes. Seems like middle class living has reached this ancient country. If you are right handed, you will live a little longer than left handed people.... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Wednesday, 20th June 2007 @ 7:02 PM

You and your family, as well as neighbors and friends fill up garbage pails for the trash man to take away at least once every week. Some of us separate items like plastic, paper, cans and bottles for recycling. This is a fairly new concept and is going a long way to help the environment. Instead of clogging up the earth with this non biodegradable stuff, we recycle and use it over and over again. But what about the other garbage that is not recycled; things like leftover food, wrappi... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Wednesday, 20th June 2007 @ 6:59 PM

Physics is all around us. It is in the electric light you turn on in the morning; the car you drive to work; your wristwatch, cell phone, CD player, radio, and your television. It makes the stars shine every night and the sun shine every day, and it makes a your favorite basketball player seemingly fly while dunking the ball! Physics is the science of matter, energy, space, and time. It explains ordinary matter as combinations of a dozen fundamental particles, interacting through four fun... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Sarah Jones @ Tuesday, 12th June 2007 @ 9:47 AM

As parents, we are all looking for tips and tricks to helping our children excel in school. You want them to have fun, but you also want to squeeze in a little bit of learning whenever humanly possible. This is why educational coloring is such a cool concept. You choose worksheets and coloring pages that will help your child excel, while giving them complete freedom to do what they love the most- color! Finding coloring books has never been a problem with my kids, but finding education... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Friday, 25th May 2007 @ 2:15 PM

Science experiments sometimes find the oddest things. These facts from experiments on this bug will give you some respect for the creepy crawler. Cockroaches have been around for 400 million years. Dinosaurs have come and gone. Entire races of people have come and gone. But cockroaches remain. Would you believe that there are over 4000 different species of the little buggers? If there is a nuclear attack, we will die, but the cockroaches are likely to live. Humans can withstand a one... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Friday, 25th May 2007 @ 2:15 PM

Science experiments in chemistry reveals the oddest fact -- molecules have down-right silly names. One doesn't usually think of chemistry topics as humorous but one look at these molecule names and you'll change your thinking on that. Try some of these names for Chemistry Science chuckles. One molecule is called "arsole". It is the arsenic equivalent of pyrole, and is occasionally seen as a side group in the form of organic arsolyls. Another molecule is called ... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Friday, 25th May 2007 @ 2:09 PM

A science experiment on the brain? Yes! This experiment gets inside your head and makes some revealing determinations! You've heard of being right or left handed but how about left or right brained? Are you left brained or right brained? Left brain people tend to be logical, sequential, rational and analytical. They are usually objective and tend to look at small parts. Right brain people on the other hand are more random and intuitive. They are holistic, synthesizing, subjective, and t... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Friday, 25th May 2007 @ 2:08 PM

Science experiments don't get much more interesting then this. Do you spend a lot of time on the internet? Most kids spend an average of 5 hours a week surfing the web. Some of that time is spent searching for a page about a specific topic. Often this is wasted time, sifting through page after page of search engine results. Are you spending forever looking for pages you want? Whether your search is for school, for information, or just for fun; do you have trouble finding what you're l... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Mort Barish @ Friday, 25th May 2007 @ 1:51 PM

Looking for a great science experiment? How about an Earth Science project? Have you heard the expression "as solid as a rock". Hold up just a minute there; rocks are not quite as solid as most of us believe. Rocks have little pockets of air inside them. Have you ever looked at a piece of volcanic rock? The air pockets are really easy to see. But even in very dense rocks like granite for example, there are tiny pockets of air inside. This is a great subject for an interesting scie... more...

Culture and Society » Education » K-12 | By Jimmy Cox @ Monday, 21st May 2007 @ 11:21 PM

It is not necessary that a great deal of extra work be done in putting on a gym demonstration as almost all the numbers are regular parts of the school's physical education program. The one main thing that contributes more to the success of the demonstration is in the organization of it and in the ease and smoothness in which it goes along. The numbers should not be too long or dragged out so as to tire the audience. This may occur in marching very easily. The numbers should be well... more...