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Engage your students in learning with games. Check out these ideas of games that will work for any content area and grab a FREEBIE to get started!

Spark a Love of Learning with Games

Teaching can be challenging from time to time, especially when we are talking about holding a student’s attention and keeping it. How can we motivate

Are you looking for some games that you can use whole group to review important content with your class before a test? Check out these 5 engaging games for reviewing!

5 Games for Reviewing Any Content

When I was in school, I remember teachers reviewing content by simply having us open a book, going to the end of the chapter, and

Do you think games are time-consuming or too competitive? This post helps you understand all the reasons why you should be using games in your elementary classroom- including one that will surprise you.

Why You SHOULD Use Games In Your Classroom

Often times when I mention using games in the classroom, I am met with a look. A look of bewilderment. I’m surprised by this because

Activities to Investigate Camouflage

This post contains affiliate links. Teaching about adaptations can be fun, especially when you start talking about the physical adaptation of camouflage. Often times students who

10 Ways for Students to Master Fractions

Teaching fractions are very important, yet so poorly understood even by many adults. If many adults don’t understand them, that means our students are in

Stimulate curiosity with your students through this process of observation and questioning in science. It piques their interests and engages!

Stimulate Curiosity through Questioning

When children are little they are very curious about everything around them, but as they get older this tends to diminish. How can we, as

How to Tier Your Lessons Successfully

We all have heard of differentiation. I’m sure at some point we have all wondered just how exactly are we suppose to make sure that

20 Science Career Projects and Activities that Engages

Sometimes a topic such as science careers can be a bit dry. And, often times you aren’t exactly sure how to “spruce it up” so

24 Exit Ticket Ideas

We’ve probably all used exit tickets before in our classroom for a quick, informal assessment. And, I’m willing to bet that most of the time

ELL, ESOL, LEP, ELD. We all have experienced English Language Learners at some point during our teaching careers. Learn some strategies to help both you and them be successful!

Strategies to Help Your English Language Learners

I’ve made many mistakes during my teaching career and one in particular still haunts me to this day. It was with my first English Language

10 Mistakes Teachers Make When Teaching Science

Teaching science is often lower on the list of priorities for some teachers. I get it. In elementary classrooms everywhere, there is a HUGE emphasis

Do your students struggle with multiplying large numbers? Help them learn multi-digit multiplication with strategies such as the area model, the box method, the partial products method, and the distributive property today! Click here to find out more.

Strategies for Teaching Multi-Digit Multiplication

Common Core requires that we teach students strategies before we introduce them to the traditional algorithms. When it comes to teaching multi-digit multiplication, it’s common