Tim Yoder

A group of 117 English men, women, and children landed on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina in August of 1587. Under the leadership of Gov. John White, houses were built, and what was intended to be a permanent colony was established. The first English child born on American soil, Virginia Dare, was born to John White’s daughter and son-in-law shortly after their arrival. After it became obvious that the colonists were unprepared for life in the New World, John White

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

How to Keep Score in Bowling – A Real-life Application of Following Directions and Addition Skills Back in the “old days”, people who bowled at the bowling alley were given a paper score sheet, and it was up to them to keep score to determine the winner of the game. Today the scoring is all done by computer, and if one can read the numbers on a monitor, one can determine who won the game. Most young people today do not have a clue about how to keep score in bowling. This resource is designed t

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

The sky went dark the morning of May 19, 1780, in New England. The darkness traveled quickly from the West and did not go away until the following day. At the time and in years following the event, many theories have been offered to explain the darkness. After receiving an overview of the situation, students working in groups form a hypothesis giving their explanation of the mysterious event. The students then receive three sets of clues, one set at a time, to help them solve the mystery.

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 on sight as well as they know the letters of the alphabet. After students have had ample time to practice the facts, I give an assessment to determine which students have mastered them. Those students who are not yet up to speed then begin participating in my weekly math fact plan. This plan

This resource includes 9 documents: - Checklists for all the ELA standards for grades 6-8 (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 in

This resource contains a bank of math problems designed to compare the two teams playing in the 2026 Super Bowl – the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. It includes 120 math problems (and answers) that involve the following skills: - Subtracting to find how much greater than or less than - Adding to find the total - Multiplication of whole numbers - Division of whole numbers - Finding ratios - Percents - Finding the mean - Rounding to the nearest tenth - Rounding to the nearest hundr

It’s World Series Time!!! This resource contains a Bank of Math Problems designed to compare the Los Angeles, the Toronto Blue Jays, and their stadiums. It includes 120 math problems (and answers) that involve the following skills: - Finding and deciding what information to use from a chart - Calculating elapsed time in years - Subtracting to find how much greater than or less than - Adding to find the total - Multiplication of multi-digit whole numbers - Multiplication of price amounts -

This resource includes 9 documents: - Checklists for all the MATH standards for grades 6-8 (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Student roster forms with a checklist column for each MATH standard for each grade level (Adobe Acrobat PDF) - Editable student roster forms with a checklist column for each MATH 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 o

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 3 documents: - Checklist for all the MATH standards for sixth grade (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

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 ELA standards for sixth 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 repo

BUZZ is a fast-paced mental math activity that requires every student in your class to listen carefully, to concentrate for an extended time, and to apply previously-learned math concepts. The game basically involves the members of your class counting from 1 to 50 or 1 to 100, depending on the grade level and the level of difficulty. Before each round begins, you will identify the BUZZ number for that round. The BUZZ number could be a multiple of a given number, a perfect square, a prime numbe

Combining math and science is a natural. With all the excitement surrounding the 2024 total solar eclipse, it only makes sense to extend our math knowledge and skills to the numbers involved with the incredible show that is about to take place in the sky. This resource contains a Bank of Math Problems for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. It includes 90 math problems (and answers) that involve the following skills: - Identifying the least and greatest values - Ordering numbers from least to g

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the MATH standards for seventh grade (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 progres

This resource includes 3 documents: - Checklist for all the ELA standards for eighth 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 rep