The Oakland Museum Loves us!

On Friday, May 21, 2010 from 4-8 pm, the Oakland Museum of California will be celebrating educators and its newly transformed museum!

Come with friends and family for a memorable evening of art, history, and entertainment.

Explore the new galleries of California Art and History.

Dig deeper into California art and history with tours by museum staff, gallery talks and demonstrations as well as hands-on activities for adults and families.

Enjoy live music, a no-host bar, and complimentary refreshments.

Stop by the membership table to learn how you can receive unlimited free admission every time you visit the museum.

RSVP to 510-238-6942 or mcordero@museumca.org

For more information visit museumca.org

Mrs. Madden from South Carolina

There are so many teachers doing very cool things. Check out Mrs. Madden from South Carolina. Her class looks like tons of fun! From her S.T.A.R. binders to her 2nd grade data analysis tools . . . you are definitely going to get some great ideas from this website.

Space Math--Real World Application for High School Math

Math teachers are always thinking about real world applications to math. Check out NASA's website for Space Math at http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/. The goal of these problems is to teach students about astronomy and space science by using mathematics and real-world problems. The current batch is for January-April, 2010. As new NASA press releases are posted, a small number of additional math problems will appear. For email announcements about Space Math, join the E-Teachers Listserve.

Problem 328 caught my attention. It deals with domain and range and graphing. Students use satellite data to study a practical application of the product of two functions by graphing them individually, and their product. How cool is that?!?!

Earth Day Coloring Pages

Who wouldn't want to color the earth picking up garbage? Check out Colormegood.com for a few earth day themed coloring pages.

Future Football players and cheerleaders???

ALAMEDA PIRATE
FREE CONDITIONING CLINIC!!!!!!

STARTING SATURDAY 4/17/10

12:00PM - 2:00PM

WOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

420 GRAND ST. ALAMEDA , CA

(BEHIND SCHOOL )

THESE CLINICS ARE OPEN TO ALL CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

CLINICS WILL BE EVERY SAT. STARTING 4/17 AND ENDING 7/24

This is the tenth season of the Alameda Pirates. They started by cutting our registration fee's in half (which is always a nice surprise) so this season the registration fee for football and cheer is $100.00.

If your students need something to do for the summer, this is an option for their families.

Free Math Games

EZSchool.com has tons of math games on their site as well as tons of other resources. It's a little cheesy but it does the trick. I liked the Lucky Integer Balls and the Measuring Angles game where you drag and drop the protractor to measure angles . . . okay. so I'm a nerd . . .

TeacherZone--Free math videos

I just stumbled upon TeacherZone - a free math video site - with thousands of 3-5
minute math videos - perfect for sharing with kids and parents.

They seem to have videos for all math topics for K-12...
check it out at - http://teacher. tenmarks. com