12 Ways to Use The Learning Network This School Year

[Frank W. Baker]

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1. Find a fresh lesson plan every weekday.

This year, our lessons resume Monday, Sept. 12. You can receive them via e-mail daily, or just on the days that suit you. Here is our schedule:

* Monday – Multimedia Interdisciplinary Lesson of the Week
* Tuesday – History and Social Studies
* Wednesday – Science and Health
* Thursday – Language and Fine Arts
* Friday – Ideas From Our Audience: Guest Posts, Student Contests, Reader Ideas and occasional surprises

Note: Though our lessons are currently aligned to the McREL national standards, they can also be correlated to the new Common Core standards. In this post we describe how to to use The Times to address the Common Core and help students become proficient with “informational text.”

See numbers 2-12 here.