Solving Unknown Perimeter Mysteries

…said, “Last year I got every one wrong when you had to find the missing number. This is much easier to figure out because it goes one part at a…

Cooking Up a Caring Classroom

…for specific topics. You’ll even find the ISBN number for each book to help you locate it! After you read each book to your class, check it off in the

Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

Numbers and Measurements The Man Who Walked Between the Towers includes many references to lengths, heights, and widths, so I created a set of task cards that display those quantities….

5 Ways to Help Students Become Word Collectors

…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it!   2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…

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

…to present. What types of content for presentations would yield high interest? Determine the number of make-and take stations and the content for each station. Examples of make-and-take stations include…

Teaching with Dry Erase Boards

…random number generator to determine the winner. The dry erase board set will be shipped directly to the winner’s school, but it will be noted that the set belongs to…

Pumpkin Predictions Measurement Fun!

the October Activities Pack and print out the chart from there. Pumpkin Predictions Procedure Have students number off around the team, and Person #1 becomes the first recorder. Each team…