Playing the Mystery Skype Game

…team think of a secret number. The players on the other team ask Yes/No questions to try to guess the other team’s number. Is your number higher than 50? Is…

Plickers 102: Innovative Ways to Use Plickers

…the classroom, too! 9. Student-Generated Questions Melinda Harvey shared that after reading about how New Netherlands became New York, her fourth graders generated multiple choice questions, including answers and non-answers…

How to Form Cooperative Learning Teams

…on race. For ability, decided if the student is High (H), Medium High (MH), Medium Low (ML), or Low(L). The numbers of students for each category need to be roughly…

Teaching Children Not to Be Rude!

…how the characters acted rudely and discuss why they may have chosen to act that way, if they knew they were being rude, and what they did to overcome their…

Valentine Candy Hearts Math Investigation

…the same number of candies? Inquiring minds want to know! Questions like these provide a perfect opportunity for a bit of data analysis fun! When I posed these questions to…