Blog Language is a powerful tool. It allows us to communicate complex ideas and emotions with one another. An important aspect of language is figurative language. It allows us to convey particular ideas without directly stating them. This can make our speech more interesting and simplify complicated concepts. Figurative language is used all of the time, […]
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Presidents’ Day Basics: Explaining the Role of the President to your Classroom
As we celebrate Presidents Day this month, it might be wise to explain the basic responsibilities of the presidency to your classroom. Luckily, we at Classhook have found videos that can help. In this post, we’ve separated it into three categories: What the President Does and How He/She works with the rest of the government, […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Results
We’ve reached the final step of Scientific Method: Analyzing the Results. The information you receive from observing your subject and experimenting is only useful when compared to your hypothesis. By comparing the experiment results with the hypothesis we can determine if our original assumptions were true or false. Mythbusters The Mythbusters give a perfect example […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Experimentation
Experimenting is critical to the Scientific Method. It is through experimentation that we test our ideas and hypotheses and ultimately discover more about the world. We use experimentation to gather more information and prove if our hypothesis was true or false. Testing a claim can help us learn more about a subject and its properties. […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Hypothesis
Previously, we explained the importance of asking questions. Now let’s talk about what to do with that information. Using the information that we gathered from our observation we can make a Hypothesis. This is a possible explanation to a phenomenon that was identified earlier. It is important to remember that a hypothesis must be a […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Questioning
In the previous post, we established the first step of the Scientific Method: Observation. Now let’s go over what follows next. Questions are what drive us to learn more about the world. Through asking questions we are led to new ideas and new solutions for complex problems. Questioning is at the heart of science. Nightmare […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Observation
The Scientific Method is the driving force behind our advancement in science. It is the process through which we build upon our existing knowledge and push ourselves to discover new things. For thousands of years scientists have used the Scientific Method to better understand the world around them. This method has been the guiding hand […]
Teaching ELA with Popular Media
For thousands of years we’ve understood that stories can teach us both ethical and factual lessons. Now, popular media carries on this tradition. We learn important lessons from television and films everyday. At ClassHook we strive to help you utilize the power of media to better teach these lessons in the most effective way possible. […]
Supporting Students’ Listening Skills with ClassHook
Math, Science, English Language Arts, Social studies, galore! Here at ClassHook we’re dedicated to helping you hit all kinds of standards from the Common Core in your daily classes. Don’t believe us? Have a look at our browsing experience. We cover a wide range of subjects from business to world languages to social emotional learning. […]
Using Clips as a Springboard to Evaluate Accuracy
More often than not, producers portray events that err on the side of impossible. Think the villain surviving a fall off a skyscraper, cars hurtling around cities in high-speed car crashes, and so on. While they may prove to be entertaining for their exciting antics and outrageous feats, they can also serve to enhance your […]