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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

Are you trying to figure out how you are going to foster online student engagement this upcoming school year? This post contains a few ideas for teachers who may end up teaching remotely or have to have a hybrid approach! Click through to read now!

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

If you have to do test prep, why not find a way to make sure it's engaging? This post helps your students review material before that all important test in ways that are motivating and engaging. Check out these test prep ideas.

Engaging Test Prep Ideas

Students have to review material before a test. This is especially true before a test that has higher stakes involved. Typically schools pull out the

Motivate your students during your standardized testing with these test-taking motivation ideas!

Using Test-Taking Motivators

There are many ways to motivate students before a standardized test and even on that all-important test day. Don’t underestimate the need for these mini-motivators,

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

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

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

Are you considering game-based learning in your classroom? Check out these tips and teaching ideas to help you get started both digitally and in paper form today!

5 Tips to Using Game-Based Learning

Let’s play a game! Those words can excite upper elementary students just as much as the younger set. Students of all ages love playing games,

How to Create a DIY Classroom Calendar

Does anyone remember the Everyday Math Calendars? I use to love doing those in my classroom with my students, even in the upper elementary grades.

Do your students have to create timelines to meet academic standards? Check out these 10 different timelines that are sure to engage and motivate your students during social studies with this important reading skill!

10 Engaging Ways to Create Timelines

Teaching about timelines is a skill that crosses into language arts, science, and social studies, at the very least. It is often found as a

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