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When students are engaged, learning happens without a fight. Engagement makes learning fun and teaching easier. Check out the various tips, ideas, and strategies to engage your students in your classroom.

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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 instructional tactics have proven to impact student achievement, enrich instruction, and engage their thinking processes. Check out this blog post with ideas to get you started!

5 Active Learning Strategies to Boost Your Classroom

Preventing the Overload of Worksheets

Make learning engaging with these 50 teaching tips, ideas, and techniques to engage students in your elementary classroom.

50 Practices that Engage Students

I'm here to share another round-up of modern, exciting instructional strategies that you can implement in your classroom right away!

Breakthrough Instructional Strategies: Round-Up #2

Instructional strategies are truly the backbone of classrooms. If you don’t have an array of solid strategies at your disposal, your lesson plans will be

7 Ways to Captivate Classroom Engagement in Upper Elementary

Are you ready to captivate the clever kiddos in your curious classroom? I know you are; classroom engagement is an amazing thing, and it’s not

By utilizing inquiry-based learning, you empower students to feel confident in their learning and build upon their successes to become lifelong learners.

Inquiry-Based Learning Round-Up #1: Stimulating Excitement

“If IBL [inquiry-based learning] is effectively implemented by a skilled teacher who is willing to teach, reteach, and model patterns of thinking, then students will

Differentiation starts with exceptional differentiation strategies that are backed by research and strike a balance between effort and success.

20 Breakthrough Differentiation Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: differentiation is the key to unlocking every student’s unique potential. And, as I’ve mentioned

Diving into the world of magnets can be both educational and fun, as showcased by three of my all-time favorite upper elementary magnetism experiments!

The Mystery of Magnetism: 3 Magnetic Experiments

Magnets: how do they work? Okay, well, we actually do have a pretty good idea of how they work… But that doesn’t mean magnetism is

Teaching about solar and lunar eclipses can be a memorable experience for students in upper elementary science classrooms. With the right blend of hands-on activities, math exercises, and scientific observations, you can turn these celestial events into foundational learning moments!

Light Up the Learning: 7 Engaging Eclipse Activities

When was the last time you watched an eclipse? Personally, I haven’t seen any since August 2017, aptly named the “Great American Eclipse” by some

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5 Simple Machines Projects to Support Student Inquiry

There’s a reason I mention hands-on activities in every single blog post: it’s the best way to learn! Whenever you’re in need of ways to

Simple machines are the backbone of all our fancy gadgets and systems. Help your students understand simple machines with these engaging activities!

Making Simple Machines Simple (and Fun!)

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: we are firmly planted in the Digital Era! Everywhere you look, there’s new technology

Get ahead of the curve by teaching rounding skills and sparking interest through interactive rounding games, manipulatives, songs, and movement.

10 Exciting & Effective Rounding Games

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1 HUGE Mistake You May Be Making with Project-Based Learning

Projects can be a ton of fun for both you and your students–it’s no secret. That’s why project-based learning is such a hit! But how

Math is Fun Again: 10 Engaging Math Activities for Upper Elementary Students

It can grow tiring using the same math activities over and over that don’t engage your upper elementary students like they once did. With trends

20 End of the Year Activities to Engage Your Students

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

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