Cooperative Learning – More Than Group Work

…deadline for completion, and provides time to complete the project. Students are expected to contribute to the project equally, but that seldom happens. Instead, the self-appointed leader takes over, makes…

Plickers Made Easy with Task Cards

…the Plickers.com website, sign up for a free account, and take a peek around the site. But before you do anything else, watch my free webinar, Interactive Teaching with Plickers….

The Secret to Lightning Fast Classroom Transitions

…Teacher Heaven. For a complete description of Whole Brain Teaching’s rules, see chapter 7 in “Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids” available on Amazon.com. Chris Biffle Director, Whole Brain Teachers…

Gearing Up for Next Generation Science

…Teachers maintains a comprehensive list of lessons for grades k-12 CEE – Children’s Engineering Educators LLC has free design briefs and activities Engineering in the elementary classroom is here to…

Teachers, Help MrOwl Help YOU!

Wouldn’t it be awesome to find a free tech tool for creating collections of online resources, photos, and documents all in one place? Look no further! Welcome to MrOwl, a…

Weekend App Attack: 3 Great Classroom Apps!

…levels and explains the meaning and the synonyms of the words. AppsGoneFree The final app on this weekend’s list is called Appsgonefree. Download this “Daily Deal App Finder” from the…

Task Cards 101

…in your classroom? You can download a variety of free task cards sets from my Totally Task Cards blog free resources page. What is your favorite way to use task…

Interactive Teaching with Plickers (Free Webinar)

…fact that it’s FREE, is that it doesn’t require expensive clicker devices. Instead, this innovative program uses “paper clickers” that you can print for free from the Plickers website. You…

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…with books you got cheap or have multiple copies of. Books that are super popular or special/more expensive/ really new copies that you are more concerned about losing can be…

How to Recharge Mathematical Thinking

free directions and “recharger” label shown in the video. Advanced Preparation for Recharge & Write This strategy is easy to implement, but you’ll need to do a little advanced prep