How to Foster Online Student Engagement
You may be teaching online this summer or into the fall. During the last few months of school, you probably noticed that it’s harder to
You may be teaching online this summer or into the fall. During the last few months of school, you probably noticed that it’s harder to
During this time of distance learning, we have all had to come up with creative ideas to reach our students online. You’ve held Zoom meetings or Google Meets to
Many of us have spent the last weeks in remote or virtual learning classrooms. Those strong relationships you established in the classroom don’t stay strong
What a whirlwind the last month has been! Who could have guessed that a temporary closure of schools would turn into school at home for
Although school buildings are closed, our students are still learning! Even though that means our regular in-class activities are gone this year, you can still
School closures are happening across the country, and most of us were thrown into online teaching without a lot of time to figure out what
The most recent events have caused the majority of the school districts in the United States to close, providing teachers with last-minute notice and students
Active learning strategies are the perfect solution for taking your students from a passive state to an active state that involves higher-order thinking skills. These
If you’re looking for recycling activities, you’ve landed in the right place! Whether it be for Earth Day, a natural resources unit, or for National
When I was younger, I hated learning anything about our measurement system- the American, Standard measurement system. And when my teacher threw in the Metric
One of the biggest classroom management challenges that presents itself is getting students to listen. Without fail, every year, there is a child in your
Teaching through distance learning right now can be challenging! We want to engage our students while making sure they are still learning and practicing reading
Writing in math is much more than copying down an equation and then solving it. And it’s much more than just answering a quick question
The best way to learn science is through hands-on experiences. I love sharing these fun, engaging experiments with my students. The best experiments, however, are
If you teach the solar system, at some point, you and your students will likely have to create a scale model too. This project doesn’t
Line plots are taught in second, third, fourth, and fifth grade. It’s a celebrity in the elementary math field of data analysis and measurement. So
Let’s face it. At the end of the year, your students have high energy and are super excited that school is about to end. And
When I was in college, I did not like learning about plants. It was a boring class and the professor had a monotone voice. I
Regardless of whether your school is teaching virtual, in-person, or somewhere in-between, there are still school districts that are testing their students. Maybe these districts
February is Black History Month. With everything going on in our classrooms (parent/teacher conferences, Valentine’s Day, 100th day of school, President’s Day, and COVID, to
Teaching equivalent fractions is no easy feat, and when you throw in the thought of having to teach it online remotely, one’s brain begins to
Valentine’s Day is such a fun holiday to celebrate in the classroom. It’s the perfect day to express to students just how much they mean
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