Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

…on Wikipedia.org, and I edited it to create a shorter PDF version to use with students. If you use it with your students, please remember that the details in the…

5 Ways to Help Students Become Word Collectors

…you, yourself, are interested in language. Helping students rephrase their idea or restating your own to add in more varied vocabulary is a way to infuse more “word collecting” into…

Family Science Night: Hands-on, Minds-on Fun!

…for a lifetime. According to the well-known quotation from Benjamin Franklin, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” This ideology was taken…

Teaching with Dry Erase Boards

…Interactive and Effective Strategies for Instruction, and you can download it here or from Teaching Resources. In this booklet, you’ll find strategies for using dry erase boards in a whole…

Pumpkin Predictions Measurement Fun!

Pumpkin Predictions is a perfect fall-themed activity for upper elementary students because it’s not a Halloween activity, but it seems like one. The lesson is actually a great math review…