Sometimes a topic such as science careers can be a bit dry. And, often times you aren’t exactly sure how to “spruce it up” so students are engaged. Today, I have 20 science career project and activity ideas that I think would help you when it comes to planning! Choosing… Continue Reading »
24 Exit Ticket Ideas
We’ve probably all used exit tickets before in our classroom for a quick, informal assessment. And, I’m willing to bet that most of the time you have used nearly the same questions– something along the lines of “tell me what you have learned today.” If you’re like me, after a… Continue Reading »
Why You Should Be Using Discrepant Events
One of the best ways to engage students in science at the start of a new unit is to use a discrepant event. Discrepant events pique students’ interest and leave them craving the knowledge that you plan to teach them. Students are often left begging you to tell them “how… Continue Reading »
Engaging Ways to Teach Place Value to Upper Elementary
Teaching place value can be a bit cut and dry. It’s one of those math concepts that are necessary to teach to understand the other ideas that get taught the rest of the year. It’s foundational for many other concepts, such as using the operations, decimals, and fractions. What activities… Continue Reading »
5 Tips to Using Game-Based Learning
Let’s play a game! Those words can excite upper elementary students just as much as the younger set. Students of all ages love playing games, but game-based learning is so much more. It’s not just a replacement for worksheets, a space-filler to kill time between assessments, and it’s not just… Continue Reading »
10 Engaging Ways to Create Timelines
Teaching about timelines is a skill that crosses into language arts, science, and social studies, at the very least. It is often found as a graphic source in nonfiction texts that helps students understand the material better, and students are often asked to create a timeline at some point during… Continue Reading »
Seeing Results with Homework
Homework can be a controversial subject. Those who are against it often state that it is not an effective instructional tool and can be detrimental to the student’s health. They are quick to cite that it interferes with home activities and values work over the family’s well-being. Those who are… Continue Reading »
Preventing the Overload of Worksheets
Worksheets. They have been around for a long time. I would imagine the first teacher was carrying around large blocks of stone with work etched in it for students. I remember working on worksheets with the blue printed ink (and now they are faded yellow). I mean, look at this… Continue Reading »
Fingerprint Storyboards for Any Subject
**Keep reading… This is MORE than a Thanksgiving Post! This is a post with an engaging strategy that your students can use in ANY subject area ANY time of the year! :)** Each year just before Thanksgiving break, I like to read the book The First Thanksgiving and afterwards discuss… Continue Reading »
Creative Ways to Make Science Engaging & Memorable
When you ask students what science makes them think of, there are two groups. There is the group of kids who think of science experiments and just love it! Then, there is the group of kids who hate it because of all the hard language and concepts. Science is a… Continue Reading »
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