Hands-on Geometry – Part I

…at plain, generic solids, and I ask the students to tell me objects they have seen that would match those shapes. Kids always mention things like ice cream cones for…

Teaching Kids to Express Appreciation

…want to do this activity later in the year, you can download a generic card called Our Team Rocks. I hope your students enjoy it as much as mine did!…

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…teachers responded, so I compiled the best answers and removed duplicates. I organized all of the checkout systems into two categories: technology systems and traditional systems. There’s also a third…

Quiet Signals and Timers

…program in the timer to count up or count down, depending on the task you want to time. One of my favorite free websites is Online Stopwatch at www.online-stopwatch.com. They have…

Interactive Whiteboards and Web Tools

…be downloaded from www.smarttech.com. Some of the activities have directions, but you’ll have to figure out the others on your own. 🙂 You may be able to open them with…

Teaching Children Not to Be Rude!

…Want to Do it My Way! She enjoys visiting schools and talking with kids; in fact, she’s done over 800 school visits! You can learn more at her website, www.juliacookonline.com….

30 Free or Inexpensive Gift Ideas for Students

…you want to get fancy you could mount on construction paper. http://www.wordle.net Karen Esdale-Brown – I melt down the broken classroom crayons into Christmas cookie cutter shapes. Kerri Grooby –…