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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

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,

Halloween Activities for Any Content Area

Are you looking for some great activities for Halloween day that will engage your students, yet still impress your administrator that you are focusing on

Having a Math and Science Night

A math and science night is a lot of work but it’s well worth it. The benefits of families experiencing school as a place of

Activities for Red Ribbon Week

It doesn’t seem that we would have to tackle the concepts of drugs, alcohol, or smoking in the elementary grades. Yet, we do. It’s not

Do you need activities to help your students practice fact fluency? Check out these math ideas to get you started with teaching multiplication!

Activities for Practicing Fact Fluency

Gone are the days of simply telling kiddos to memorize their multiplication facts. In order for students to master their facts and be fluent in

The Three Phases of Fact Fluency

When I think of learning multiplication and division facts, I instantly think of things like flashcards, timed tests, and around the world activities. I remember

Help your students understand science vocabulary and retain it better with these five teaching ideas!

5 Activities to Learn Science Vocabulary

Learning science vocabulary can sometimes be boring to a child. And when they already have to learn the concepts too, it can be challenging. With

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