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PLANNING

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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

Are you looking for some STEAM/STEM activities without having to purchase a lot of materials? Check out these activities that use just regular household objects!

STEAM Challenges with Household Objects

Although school buildings are closed, our students are still learning! Even though that means our regular in-class activities are gone this year, you can still

Have you been thinking about using Google Classroom with your elementary students? Check out this post which walks you through getting started and setting it up step-by-step!

Google Classroom for Total Newbies

School closures are happening across the country, and most of us were thrown into online teaching without a lot of time to figure out what

This blog post contains offline and online resources for when your students are not at school, whether that is through remote learning, distance learning, virtual learning, or something else. This also includes preventing the summer slide, providing enrichment or remediation, and much more!

Resources for When Your Students Aren’t at School

The most recent events have caused the majority of the school districts in the United States to close, providing teachers with last-minute notice and students

12 Activities for Teaching About Recycling

If you’re looking for recycling activities, you’ve landed in the right place! Whether it be for Earth Day, a natural resources unit, or for National

$Capacity doesn't have to be difficult for students and we can make it a bit more concrete for them now. This post has some activities that will not only help your students grasp measuring capacity but also see the connections between it and other mathematical concepts, such as fractions.$

6 Activities for Teaching About Capacity

When I was younger, I hated learning anything about our measurement system- the American, Standard measurement system. And when my teacher threw in the Metric

6 Ways to Teach Reading Strategies by Reading a Good Book

Teaching through distance learning right now can be challenging! We want to engage our students while making sure they are still learning and practicing reading

Help your students deepen their understanding for math while becoming critical thinkers by writing in math. This post explores 11 different ideas for how teachers can bring more writing into their math classrooms beyond just solving equations.

11 Ideas for Bringing Writing into Math

Writing in math is much more than copying down an equation and then solving it. And it’s much more than just answering a quick question

The best way to learn science is through hands-on experiences. I love sharing these fun, engaging experiments with my students. Here are some fun and simple experiments for upper elementary that you can use with your students right away!

Fun and Simple Experiments for Upper Elementary

The best way to learn science is through hands-on experiences. I love sharing these fun, engaging experiments with my students. The best experiments, however, are

These solar system scale model ideas are sure to engage your students and help them grasp the understanding of distance and relative size. Check them out!

7 Options for Creating Solar System Scaled Models

If you teach the solar system, at some point, you and your students will likely have to create a scale model too. This project doesn’t

Do you teach line plots? Check out these activities that is perfect for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade math! These activities are sure to engage your students.

10 Activities That Will Electrify Line Plots

Line plots are taught in second, third, fourth, and fifth grade. It’s a celebrity in the elementary math field of data analysis and measurement. So

Explore learning the important geometry terms while working on a hands-on math project that integrates social studies! This geometry map project will engage your students definitely help them meet those all-important standards!

Having Fun with a Geometry Map Project

Imagine if you could combine multiple math standards and integrate social studies at the same time. Imagine your students being so engaged that you wonder

Creating a Passion for Reading During Science

If you were to do a google search on instilling the love for reading, you would get back about 12 million hits! That’s incredible. Yet,

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