Investigating Condensation and the Water Cycle

…cups and dried them completely before starting over. Photos by Amy Candler, www.amycandler.com   Create a Plastic Wrap Barrier – The first method was to repeat the experiment and cover…

Hands-on Water Cycle Fun!

…to observe when discussing these concepts. Demonstrate Cloud Formation The second lesson involved observing a water cycle in action by creating a cloud in a jar. This is a teacher…

5 Ways to Engage Parents Using Google Drive

…in the classroom, it dawned on me that I could use this completely free service to collaborate with parents in a way that was much more accessible than sending home…

Halting Back Talkers in Their Tracks!

…Whole Brain Teaching conferences, attended by 20,000+ educators. Thousands of instructors across the United States and around the world base their teaching methods on his free ebooks available at WholeBrainTeaching.com….

Helping Children Cope with Tragedy

…both natural and those caused by man. It models effective parenting and teaching responses. This book can help assure children that through love, empathetic understanding, preparation, and effective communication, they…

Cooperative Learning – More Than Group Work

…deadline for completion, and provides time to complete the project. Students are expected to contribute to the project equally, but that seldom happens. Instead, the self-appointed leader takes over, makes…

Top 20 Tips for Landing a Teaching Job

…can. Be professional. Be an outstanding sub. Tell everyone how much you like the school and kids – be a breath of fresh air. When something comes up in the…

The True Cost of Free Teaching Resources

…with others, they don’t understand the tremendous amount of work that goes into writing a great blog post. It usually takes me several days to compose a thoughtful post, complete…

Interactive Whiteboards and Web Tools

…should open as a Quicktime Movie. Be patient because it may take awhile to download. Depending on your computer, it may download as a file that you have to open…