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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 wanted my students to be exposed to many different types of nonfiction reading - especially with the common core standards requiring it. That's when I decided to create this reading challenge freebie to engage them into reading nonfiction more! Check out this reading idea for your elementary classroom!

A Nonfiction Reading Challenge (And A Freebie!)

I’m a Common Core school district and that meant more informational text. By 4th grade, students are expected to have 50% of their passages be nonfiction reading

A Picture Book Scoot

In my school district, on Read Across America day, we dedicate the entire afternoon to just dropping everything and reading. There are some students in

Are you looking for math centers that can stay up year long and be used with many math concept? Try out this simple and engaging game and activity for any elementary math classroom!

Bowling Math Centers

Bowling in math is one of my favorite centers to use in my math workshop and the students love it too! Not only is it

Motivate students to read books, while engaging them with creating their own book trailers with this fun reading activity. Grab a freebie to get started!

Creating Book Trailers in the Classroom

A few years ago I set one of my professional goals at integrating more technology into the classroom. Regardless of the limited resources, I just

3 Ways to Think-Pair-Share Differently

As I mentioned before in the past, I get bored quickly. It has its disadvantages, but it also has many advantages. By getting bored quickly,

I'm always looking for an engaging social studies lesson to teach and this also brings aboard writing journals! Check out these engaging travel journals that will motivate your students to learn about geography!

Travel Fever

Want a fun way to explore social studies and writing? Why not consider travel journals? So how do travel journals work? Each student would need

Engage your students in critical thinking with this Jeopardy review cooperative poster learning activity for any content area!

Jeopardy Review Posters Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

Our school district studies the regions of the United States as part of our social studies curriculum. It takes us all year to study the

Engage your students in your elementary classroom by playing these fun and simple review games! It's sure to increase student engagement and motivation!

Review Games: DIY Human Bingo

Looking for great review games? How about some B-I-N-G-O? It’s a tried-and-true student favorite in every classroom, and it surely will be in yours too!

Looking for some cute ideas and crafts that can be used in your elementary classroom - all while saving you money? Look no further. I have a few DIY teacher hacks just for the elementary teacher!

DIY Teacher Hacks: 4 Hacks to Make Your Life Easier

We all know teachers aren’t exactly made of money, time, and, well… energy. Thankfully, these DIY (Do-It-Yourself) teacher hacks don’t require a whole lot of

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