Planning can take up a lot of a teacher’s time, but it doesn’t have to. Let me help you plan quality lessons that will meet your students’ needs and engage them. This section is here to help you so you can get back to your personal life.
If you’ve been teaching a while, you have likely sat through PD after PD waiting to learn something new and fresh you can return to
Hands-on has a bad reputation in upper elementary, especially when it comes to back-to-school activities, and it’s deserved. Too much of what gets labeled hands-on
Looking for hands-on food chains and food web activities for your upper elementary science classroom? These 8 activities help students in grades 3–5 understand producers,
Looking for easy science experiments your upper elementary students can do in a single class period? These three hands-on science experiments cover some of the
Looking for ecosystem activities and project ideas that go beyond the shoebox diorama? This post covers 10 hands-on ecosystem activities and ecosystem project ideas for
If you’re looking for hands-on plant activities for your upper elementary science classroom, you’re in the right place. This post covers 10 activities spanning plant
It is incredibly exhausting when you have a student who is struggling in your upper-elementary classroom, and you just cannot pinpoint why. You watch them
Test anxiety and student testing struggles are real, and if you’ve seen it happen, you know exactly what I’m talking about. That student who crushed
You can talk about the circulatory system until you’re blue in the face, or you can let kids squeeze fake blood through tubes and make
Your admin just announced another “data-driven initiative,” and you felt your soul leave your body for a solid ten seconds. More data-driven instruction? Ugh. Can
Do you have students who can confidently say, “12 inches = 1 foot,” but who struggle to answer when asked how many inches are in
You made a unit on ecosystems that you think is great. It has colorful worksheets on the food chain, a wall with vocabulary phrases, and
