Tim Yoder

After President John F. Kennedy was killed, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. The Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President Kennedy and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald. The findings of the Warren Commission turned out to be quite controversial. Another federal investigation into the Kennedy assassination was conducted in 1978 by the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations.

The end of the college basketball season comes, and March Madness takes over. Millions of people tackle the challenge of creating the perfect bracket by attempting to predict the winner of all 63 games in the tournament. How difficult can that be? (wink, wink) This slide show first delivers a mini-lesson on how to calculate the total number of possible outcomes of an event. It then goes through the mathematical process of how to arrive at the fact that there are 9.2 quintillion possibl

The U.S.S. Maine was a battleship that was sent to Havana Harbor in January, 1898, to protect American lives and property during the revolt of Cubans against the Spanish government. At 9:40 P.M. on February 15, 1898, an explosion ripped through the ship, killing 266 sailors. Later investigations showed that more than five tons of powder stored in the ship’s forward magazines (storage areas for ammunition and powder) ignited and destroyed the forward third of the ship. What was left of the ves

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, killing or injuring over 3,500 U.S. personnel. Nineteen U.S. Navy ships and 350 planes were destroyed or damaged. After the attack, commanders Admiral Kimmel of the Navy and General Short of the Army were relieved of their positions at Pearl Harbor because they were totally unprepared for the surprise attack. In the years since this event, claims have been made that high U.S. government officials en

This resource includes common core checklists for all five areas of high school math: Number & Quantity Algebra Functions Geometry Statistics & Probability It includes 15 documents: - Checklists for all the MATH standards for all five areas (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster forms with a checklist column for each MATH standard for each area (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster forms with a checklist column for each MATH standard for area(Microsoft EXCEL 2010) These checklists can

Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, began their trip around the world on May 20, 1937, in a Lockheed Electra twin engine plane. Their trip began in Oakland, CA, and they arrived at Lae, Papua New Guinea, on June 29th. At 10:00 A.M. on July 2, Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae and began what was expected to be a 20-hour, 2,556 mile trip northeast to Howland Island, where their plane would be refueled. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca was waiting off the coast of the island. Its

This resource includes 6 documents: - Checklists for all the ELA standards for grades 9-12 (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster forms with a checklist column for each ELA standard for each grade level (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster forms with a checklist column for each ELA standard for each grade level(Microsoft EXCEL 2010) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of i

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the Geometry Math Standards (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010 ) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress for progress reports

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Today there are still questions about what happened on that day. This slide show depicts the major events of the day from the arrival of the Kennedy’s in Dallas to the swearing in of Lyndon B. Johnson as the 36th President of the United States. It touches on the arrest of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald and his murder two days later. It follows President Kennedy’s funeral procession

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the Algebra Math Standards (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010 ) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress for progress reports

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the ELA standards for 11th – 12th grade (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each ELA standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each ELA standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress for progres

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the ELA standards for 9th – 10th grade (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each ELA standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each ELA standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress for progress

Basic Math Fact Fluency with Mixed Combinations – Level Two with Three Operations Every math teacher knows that basic math fact fluency is critical to student success in any math procedure involving computation. The goal I have for my students is that they know the basic math facts as well as they know the letters of the alphabet. To keep my students sharp, we regularly solve oral mixed combinations mentally. A mixed combination involves performing the basic operations on a set of given number

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the Functions Math Standards (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010 ) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress for progress report

Using brain teasers and lateral thinking problems is an excellent way to engage your students’ attention immediately at the beginning of class. Students thrive on these types of questions because they are puzzling, challenging, and fun. I learned this strategy early in my 43-year teaching career, and in this resource I am sharing 230 tried-and-true questions that I gathered over those years. That’s one for every day of school, plus 50 more to replace those that won’t work for you or to use as ne

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the Number & Quantity Math Standards (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010 ) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress for progr

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the Statistics & Probability Math Standards (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster form with a checklist column for each MATH standard (Microsoft EXCEL 2010 ) These checklists can be used to: - keep track of which standards you have taught and when you taught them - record notes about each standard - keep track of individual student progress fo