Category: <span>Engagement</span>

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

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

50 Practices that Engage Students

With all the technology and instant gratification out there, sometimes it can be difficult to engage students. I know sometimes I think, “what can I

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