Motivating Math Games

…game, players calculate the total area or perimeter of their islands to find out who won. This game is free for my newsletter subscribers; click here to sign up for…

Awesome Facebook Group for Elementary Educators!

…is not open to teachers who create and sell teaching resources. Sorry! Upper Elementary Teacher Connection Guidelines After you become a member, you’ll see Upper Elementary Teacher Connection in the…

Heartfelt Causes & Effects

…in my book, Graphic Organizers for Reading: Teaching Tools Aligned with the Common Core, and titled it Heartfelt Causes & Effects. It decided to make it completely free, and if…

Fraction Spinners Make Fractions Fun!

Fraction Spinners make it easy to create fun fraction games for math centers or cooperative learning lessons. Years ago I created the two free fraction spinners below and uploaded them…

Save Time and Paper with Mini ABC Books!

…definitely a collaborative effort! Where to Download These Freebies Both of these ABC Mini Books can be found on Laura’s Best Freebies, a private page on my website that can…

Green Court Claims Freebie

…a verdict. You’ll find everything you need in this free lesson packet on my Science page on Teaching Resources. You’ll find the Common Core Alignment details at the back of…

Spontaneity Brings Math to Life!

…like the idea of having students create puppets from 3D shapes, feel free to use the patterns from this free assortment of 3D shape nets that I created to save…

Tips for Grading Cooperative Learning Lessons

…her participation and the quality of the final product. You can download this form for free from my Cooperative Learning page on Teaching Resources. Here’s how I used the Team…

Investigating Gummy Bears

…fair project to do at the end of the year, and I wanted to take them step by step through the process so that they will know exactly what to…

The Ancient Secret for Wise Decisions

…4. To download the free classroom rule posters described in this article, click here or on the Rule 4 poster image above. For more information on Rule 4 and WBT’s…