Boom Learning Changes You Need to Know About

Boom Cards are an amazing resource for classroom teachers, and I love creating them! If you’re not familiar with Boom Cards, they are interactive digital task cards that are played…

Playing the Mystery Skype Game

…easiest ways to get started with that is doing a video conference using Skype. The only equipment needed is a computer with a webcam and microphone. If your current computer…

Teaching Children Not to Be Rude!

Guest Blog Post by Julia Cook As a school counselor, I would often have kids come into my office and expect me to wave my magic counseling wand and solve…

Valentine Candy Hearts Math Investigation

…looked at the range, mode, median, and mean of the data. Then we counted the candies, graphed the colors, and crunched the numbers to look at the variations between the…

How to Form Cooperative Learning Teams

…card for each student in the class. Never show these cards to your students! Write each students’ name on a card, circle “boy” or “girl,” and fill out the section…

Hands On Geometry – Part II

…and easy because of their shape), the students need to create cubes and rectangular prisms of set sizes. If I have them create a 36 marshmallow cube, they can see…

6 Reasons to Teach Calculator Skills

…can gradually wean them off calculators completely. When Should Calculators Be Introduced? I introduced calculator skills early in the year because my students were 5th graders who had developed a…