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ENGAGEMENT

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

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

Creating Readers with Reading Rally

Each year for reading month, I like to make sure I have lots of activities going on to emphasize just how important reading is. Some

Preventing the Overload of Worksheets

Worksheets. They have been around for a long time. I would imagine the first teacher was carrying around large blocks of stone with work etched

An Exciting New Way to Look at Brag Tags

Brag tags are exciting, engaging, and extremely motivating in the classroom. Students love them, and there’s no doubt based on the massive supply of them

Engage your students with fingerprint storyboards. This is a strategy that can help students remember events in any content area while having fun!

Fingerprint Storyboards for Any Subject

**Keep reading… This is MORE than a Thanksgiving Post! This is a post with an engaging strategy that your students can use in ANY subject

Make science engaging and memorable with this list of ideas to integrate science into students' daily school routine. Science experiments are fun, but they're usually very short-lived in terms of engagement. I provide a list of alternative ideas that allow teachers to weave science into the school day for long-term impact and to get students used to a higher exposure of science vocabulary and concepts.

Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable

When you ask students what science makes them think of, there are two groups. There is a group of kids who think of science experiments

Photosynthesis is often a challenging topic to teach students, because it's hard to conceptualize and understand. Starting off your plants unit with a role playing activity about photosynthesis is the perfect way to get students engaged and to help them visualize how photosynthesis works!

Making Photosynthesis Engaging to Upper Elementary

Photosynthesis is a difficult concept for third graders – even older grades really, depending on how in-depth you go with it. When I teach my

The unfortunate truth is that teachers today are competing with electronics in order to get students' attention in the classroom. This is a tough obstacle to be up against! To try help my fellow teachers start their lessons out strong, I'm sharing 20 ways to catch their attention in this post.

Catch Their Attention From the Start

Holding students’ attention in the classroom now is more difficult than years ago. I blame electronics. No, really, I do. Kids are constantly holding electronic

Throwback Thursday in the classroom? Why not?! It provides for the perfect opportunity for - you guessed it! - spiral review! We know how important it is to keep old topics fresh in students' minds, and spiral review is a great way to do that. Make it fun and authentic for students by putting a Throwback Thursday (or maybe Flashback Friday) spin on it!

Review with Throwback Thursday

Spiral review is important. Do you do it? Are you looking for a way to make it fun and to only take about 20 minutes

Using QR Codes in the Classroom

I’m always looking to integrate technology more into my lesson plans because our district is always pushing it, it’s the here and now, and well, it’s part

Reading and writing about current events is a great way to keep students informed of what's going on in the world around them while simultaneously practicing academic skills. This blog post provides a strategy for upper elementary students to learn about current events, and a freebie is included!

Current Events in the Classroom

I like to teach my students to be aware of the events surrounding them in the world. To do this, I teach them how to

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ENGAGEMENT

5 Active Learning Strategies to Boost Your Classroom

Preventing the Overload of Worksheets

50 Practices that Engage Students

How to Create a DIY Classroom Calendar

Creating Readers with Reading Rally

Preventing the Overload of Worksheets

An Exciting New Way to Look at Brag Tags

Fingerprint Storyboards for Any Subject

Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable

Making Photosynthesis Engaging to Upper Elementary

Catch Their Attention From the Start

Review with Throwback Thursday

Using QR Codes in the Classroom

TRY MATH WORKSHOP!

You can finally take back your weekends with Math Workshop! How? It’s jam-packed with everything you need – lesson plans, math centers, independent work and so much more! Try it yourself. Enter your information below and check it out!

Math Journal Writing Response Printable & Digital (Google)

Solving Word Problems Start2Finish Printable & Digital (Google) Math Puzzles

Equivalent Fractions Mixed Up Puzzles Printable & Digital (Google)

Water Cycle Activities | Circle Book Printable and Digital (Google)