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PLANNING

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.

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Have you ever struggled with predicting how long a lesson takes? Have you sometimes ran out of time during a lesson and not finished everything you needed to do, or ended up having too much time left over? This post covers how to estimate the time you need for each lesson.

Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take

If you're bored with the same informal assessments such as the ticket out the door, check out this list of assessment ideas that are low prep and engaging for your classroom. This blog post includes an A to Z list of ideas for informal assessments with a FREE printable.

Informal Assessments A to Z: A list of Ideas

It is absolutely possible to facilitate learning in any subject with the six tips listed in this post. These suggestions are all based on foundational teaching practices and not on specific course curriculum. Click through to get these tips and save this post to reference later!

How to Facilitate Learning in ANY Subject

8 Hands-On Activities to Master Food Chains and Food Webs

Isn’t it great to be at the top of the food chain? As human beings, we can rest easy, far from the realm of prey

Check out these five engaging activities to ensure your kiddos will have a blast exploring the differences between inherited traits and learned behaviors!

5 Dynamic Activities for Teaching Inherited Traits & Learned Behavior (with a FREEBIE!)

Nature versus nurture is an age-old debate that shapes every individual in varying ways, and there is still plenty of research to be done. Every

Natural disasters are not explicitly required within the NGSS, but they are still extremely important to teach in your upper elementary science classroom! Check out these eight engaging activities.

8 Engaging Natural Disasters Activities

Let’s get this out of the way: natural disasters are not explicitly required within the Next Generation Science Standards. Regardless, they are still extremely important

Keeping students engaged during the more technical side of Earth science can be challenging, but with this Earth's systems model, you get fun AND learning--the best of both worlds. Go forth and teach!

The BEST Earth’s Systems Model Activity for Upper Elementary

I know, I know—it’s a bit pretentious, isn’t it? To claim that this is the best Earth’s systems modeling activity you’ll ever use in your

7 Superb Symmetry Activities (with a FREEBIE!)

In the hustle and bustle of the upper elementary classroom, where every moment is precious and every standard is vital, it can be difficult to

This ecosystems collaboration project invites students to create a hands-on structure for an animal that resides within their assigned ecosystem, then collaborate to discover interactions!

Collaborate with this Easy Ecosystems Activity

Ecosystems are all around us… Literally. Okay, sorry. That was kind of cheesy. Regardless, I’m being honest: ecosystems are what make the world go ’round,

$Conversion skills are crucial for understanding and navigating the real world. Equip students with the necessary resources to work with different units using these seven engaging methods!$

7 Easy Methods to Teach Conversions in the Math Classroom

We’re already almost halfway through March. You know what that means… Testing season is coming up. Oh, and Spring Break, also, I guess, if that’s

Understanding season changes are vital to comprehending and appreciating the world around us. Help your students explore the seasons with these engaging activities!

Conquer Season Changes with 5 Engaging Activities

As I type this, I’m still reeling from the whiplash that is Michigan’s weather. Last Tuesday, we had a high of 74 degrees; the very

Introduce growth into your classroom with these five hands-on plant growth activities!

Tackle Plant Growth Cycles with 5 Hands-On Activities

Let’s be real: there’s TONS of growth in your classroom. Your kiddos–and you!–are both growing daily, and it can be difficult to keep track of

Ensuring your lesson on animal structures align with NGSS while still covering all the important information doesn't have to be overwhelming. Check out these effortless activities to ace your unit!

5 Effortless Activities to Ace Animal Structures

Animal structures: how do they work? What’s the 411 on both internal and external structures of animals? Beyond that, what are all those functions?! There’s