Ten Ways to Teach Across the Curriculum

1. Ask students to answer math problems by writing a paragraph explaining how they got their answer and how they might use this type of math problem in a real-world situation.


2. Encourage students to practice reading comprehension exercises on passages that cover science and social studies topics.


3. Take situations that present themselves in a fictional reading passage and ask students to solve the problem mathematically.


4. Request that students create illustrations, shadowboxes, or other creative pieces to express their understanding of scientific or mathematical processes.


5. Add depth to Social Studies topics by having students read biographies of famous figures in American history.


6. Games in P. E. can incorporate mathematical concepts, such as creating tables that show the speeds of different students or calculating the probabilities of different outcomes.


7. Discuss how scientific inventions and discoveries altered American history, such as the invention of the wireless telegraph and its impact on WWI.


8. Study the animals and plants featured in fictional reading, find the settings in the book on a map, and discuss what was happening in the country and world during the time that book was written.


9. Have a trivia relay - students break up into racing teams, and must answer questions from various areas of study before they can pass the baton.


10. Be creative! Listen to what your students are interested in and find ways to explore those topics in any curriculum.

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Ten Ways to Motivate Students This Year

1. Kick off the school year by giving positive feedback for small achievements. This helps students believe they can succeed. You can then gradually increase difficulty as the year progresses.


2. Make sure the tasks assigned to each student are achievable, but challenging enough to give them a sense of accomplishment.


3. Keep the atmosphere of your classroom open and positive—focus more on reward than punishment.


4. Make students active participants in learning—instead of lecturing, ask questions and encourage projects that help them learn the answers themselves.


5. Be clear about what students will need to do to succeed—students are more likely to meet expectations if they know exactly what they are.


6. Instead of causing students to compete, let them work in groups to motivate each other.


7. Give students some choices about what will be done in class.


8. Give immediate and constant feedback. Return papers promptly, and praise students publicly to give them a sense of pride.


9. Let students help choose their goals and the rewards for achieving them.


10. Visit the MySatori™ gift shop for lots of fun items that can be used to reward students for success as they prepare for TAKS!

Sleek Corporation's Warm Fuzzy Friends greet students with a cheer, a smile, and a pat on the back as they work in MySatori™. These fun, animated creatures help motivate students to achieve!

Now these motivating friends leap off the screen and into the real world on tee shirts, sweatshirts, buttons, and magnets in our new MySatori™ gift shop!

Outfit your staff in MySatori™ tees to kick off your TAKS program, encourage students with buttons and magnets to remind them of their success, and/or reward your most-improved kids with fun sweatshirts!

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