Typing Lesson

I am a grade 11 peer tutor, and my culminating project is to teach a lesson in front of the entire class, or with a group. It needs to keep the attention of the students.

Any ideas?:)

Make the lesson something they can relate to.

If the kids in your area are big music fans, try applying your lesson to the music business — percentage of record sales to tell who’s got the biggest fan base, etc. Use specific examples of current popular music labels and acts.

If they’re more into movies, try calculations of which movie/actor/actress will win the Oscars based on how many votes each one got (when each vote counts as a different percentage).

One that always worked for me was MONEY. Give them a problem involving their own (pretend) money, and suddenly math becomes a lot more personal

I believe the Glencoe series has been approved in California. It has some limited lesson plans, but mostly these are what we teachers call "mini-lesson" plans.

Most homeschoolers use a math curriculum that comes with the lesson plans plus worksheets.

My kids use Alpha Omega Life Pacs for Math. You can buy it online.

I am taking a ECI class at NAU. I need to do a lesson plan on math, reading and another one on writing (all about farm). I have no Idea of what to do. Everybody in my class have already done one (or more) and they have more experience, but I defenitely do not know how to even start one. I need help please!!!

Make a maze on a piece of paper, and draw a barn at the end of the maze. Use toy farm animals as game pieces, and have the kids work to get their farm animal to the barn by rolling a dice and moving the appropriate number of spaces.

You can make your own dice with paper. On each side, print a number and underneath each number, draw dots (for instance, on one side draw a large 1 with one dot underneath, on another side, draw a 2 with two big dots underneath, and so on…) that way, the kids that are not sure how to recognize numbers yet can count the dots.

Don’t worry about lesson planning, once you get the hang of it, it’s a snap!

Hope you parents that does home-schooling can help me get a lesson plan to use for my kids… Thanks

How fun…you are off on an incredible journey.

Our favorite program is Sonlight Curriculum. It’s quite pricey but you can just buy the instructors guide and get most of the books at the library. If you don’t write in the guide-they are easy to resell on Ebay.

Another amazing other option, is the series of books called ….What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education (The Core Knowledge Series) [Paperback]
Your library should carry this.This book will give you a good idea of things to cover with your 6 year old.

Best of Luck!
Jana
http://www.homeschooljungle.com

Ok im from Macomb Michiagn and i wanna do singing lessons. I sing good i think, and i want more lessons. If anyone knows about anything in Michigan, with good prices please comment.

Thanks!

Best bet for getting a good referral for a voice teacher is at the music department of high schools and local colleges and universities. Many of the staff may actually give private lessons, but they usually know of people they can refer someone to if they do not. That way you get the names of a person who will have actually been educated on how to teach voice safely and effectively. Not saying that all music stores and chain "academies" are bad, but you need to ask a lot of questions about the training that the teacher has had. You don’t want to get stuck with some person who can’t even read music and is interested in only your money. Generally beware of people who promise the same results for everyone. Nearly everyone can learn to sing on pitch at least, but not everyone can learn to sing in a beautiful, gorgeous voice. We all are born with individual talents, so like the disclaimer on the diet ads–"individual results may vary". Especially be wary of those who name famous celebrities as their students, except maybe that celebrity’s voice is somewhat limited in range and they rely on a lot of autotuning.

And speaking of money. You get what you pay for, but interestingly enough you often don’t get what you pay for. Sometimes people end up paying more by buying multi-dvd sets and or hiring seedy opportunists than they would for an actual qualified teacher. Prices really vary depending on where you live and who you hire. I live in an area where it’s not common to find a voice teachers that charge as little as $20 an hour (mine charge $40and well worth it because of his background and experience) . I’m sure there are others, especially those who work with professional singers, that charge $100 or more. You have to look and ask. Anyone who is vague about their fees is another person you should avoid.
Many voice teachers will charge less for a half-hour lessons vs. a whole hour. Ideally you should go weekly, but maybe you can just start with once or twice a month? Many teachers are very flexible when scheduling.
Please check through the schools–it’s your best and safest bet.

How many lessons would I need - to pass as quickly as possible, I’ll get my mum to take me out once or twice a week on top of lessons.

Could I pass in 10 lessons?

The more driving you do the more competent you should become. If you haven’t got much money, ask your mum to take you out as much as possible. Yes it is possible in 10 lessons with loads of extra practice.

I have to write an essay on this. Examples of the lessons would be appreciated.

It depends on what kind of education, but for the most part. Just about everything really does help us out.

When in class, you are asked to work with your peers and work on group projects, right? This is a form of teamwork that can be used outside of school and into the work place or even at home.

Math in the class tries to strain your brain a little to solve addition and subtraction, which can go into how you spend or money, what will be left over, or how you save it.

In Literature, Reading, and English classes; it improves your grammar, writing, understanding, or sometimes how you think of things. So when you’re talking to people you can absorb what information they’re feeding you and putting it into simpler terms so they don’t trick you, such as in contracts. Also, in understanding, when going over a manual to fix something or understanding how it works, reading can play a great role here.

Some teachers in history or in writing will ask you to write an essay and give a speech, by doing so you can get more comfortable talking in crowds so that you’ll become more social or be a better help to others.

History takes more then just that, in history you’re learning about things in the past and will help you understand that what happens in the past can help shape our future so that we won’t make the same mistakes again.

Art class even plays a great role, you can understand what the shapes are that are used in your everyday surrounding, from the octagon of a stop sign to the architecture of a building. Art also helps with much more, it shows emotions in color.

When you see your home, the colors around you can really tell other people who you are and what you’re like.

I don’t know if you’ve experienced this in school, but we’re given little bell ringers to start out our day, usually they’ll give us a sentence to correct, a word to understand, or sometimes they give you a type of problem to solve, and it’s not always math, it may be a real-life riddle.
When you see someone being bullied, what would you do? Those kind of things will also help you understand your basic thoughts. Some of us don’t think about what we’d do, so when asked, we do actually think about it and our thought processes change often.

Just about everything in basic education gives us life lessons or things we can use in life to make it better or suitable to live in.

I already know a scale and basic chords and how to read tabs for 6 string guitar, but how should i go about making a lesson plan for continuing guitar and bass? I’d really like to try learning how to play

First thing is to get more dexterity with your fingering. The best way is to do exercises starting from the lowest to the highest string in this fashion. Use the one finger-per-fret technique using the first 4 frets.

1-2-3-4 on each string and once you get to the smallest string, go backward 4-3-2-1
The next step is you use the first 8th fret with the same fingering pattern going up and down. Use alternate picking and if you make a mistake, start over.

Alternate picking is very important to acquire speed later on. Be persistent and practice every day.

Your next step to to learn your major scales as well as your minor scales. Here is a good site to help you along these lines.

Enjoy

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php?qqq=3&scch=C&scchnam=Major&get2=Get&t=0&choice=1

Nest, learn how to strum the chords properly….

http://www.heartwoodguitar.com/blog/2005/4/16/strumming-101/

http://www.guitarcamera.com/video.asp?video=41

Okay, I have to create and teach a lesson plan that integrates two content areas. I have chosen to do a lesson on sound for a fifth grade class. The students will be making musical instruments out of straws and will be learning about pitch and vibrations. However, I’m having trouble looking for a way to integrate this lesson. Any ideas?

If you are talking about pan pipes, the pitch is altered by the size of the resonance chamber. The frequency of the vibrations is determined by the length of the straw segment. Just like with bottles or tubes tuned by partial filling, the smaller space results in a smaller wavelength due to a higher vibrational rate. The resonant space controls the vibrational rate.