The True Cost of Free Teaching Resources

…of providing free resources. Lately I’ve been seeing more comments like this than usual, probably because I’ve been enthusiastically promoting Angela Watson’s 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club. I’m not sure…

Plickers 102: Innovative Ways to Use Plickers

…how it works. Plickers is a free program that’s a cross between hand-held “clickers” and paper QR codes. It’s an amazing formative assessment tool that provides academic performance data in…

Making the Social Studies and Literacy Connection

…Day freebie on TpT during September and on my Social Studies page on Teaching Resources all year round. What’s the Truth? (Sorting Activity) Title: The Constitution of the United States…

Awesome Facebook Group for Elementary Educators!

…literacy centers How to implement math stations, how use math games effectively, guided math strategies, etc. Collaborative projects and activities using technology, including Google Classroom, Skype, student blogging, QR codes,…

Interactive Teaching with Plickers (Free Webinar)

…fact that it’s FREE, is that it doesn’t require expensive clicker devices. Instead, this innovative program uses “paper clickers” that you can print for free from the Plickers website. You…

Going Marbles for STEM Hands-on Learning

…you might even be able to the materials for this project absolutely free! I recently decided to have my 3rd graders design and test marble runs as a part of…