What are Cooperative Learning Structures?

…Learning. It’s the best resource around for cooperative learning, and it clearly explains dozens of structures! Sample Structure: Numbered Heads Together Number students off from 1 to 4 within their…

Halting Back Talkers in Their Tracks!

…the series, click here. To see Whole Brain Teaching in action, watch the videos on the WBT website. Need a rule that stops back-talking students in their tracks? Discover the…

Gearing Up for Next Generation Science

…you will be amazed at the number of engineering concepts that can easily be integrated into history, literature, and math. In literature, students could be challenged to: Design a house…

Fun with Customary Measurement Conversions

…the logic? Bring on the metric system! Every unit is based on tens which corresponds perfectly to our base ten number system. Unfortunately, I don’t think the United States will…

Quiet Signals and Timers

…timer on their Smartphone as a count down or count up timer. The obvious problem with using this strategy is that you have to have your phone on and you…

Teaching with Dry Erase Boards

…her quest! After Julia developed the perfect dry erase marker and board combination, she created the Kleenslate Concepts website to get the word out to educators. In addition to the…

Fraction Predict and Compare Partner Activity

…3rd and 4th graders, which might be true if they have to find least common denominators. But if kids develop fraction number sense instead of memorizing algorithms, they will blow…

15 Tips for Lining Up Your Class

…Young: Alpha by last name, alpha by first name, month of birth, table number (prime, composite, factors of x number, multiple of y number), rows, columns, how far they got…