Pay It Forward and Make Someone’s Day!

…students complete it online, they can submit it to you privately the way they would submit any assignment. To learn more about International Pay It Forward Day, you can visit…

Fun Twist on Book Reports!

…organizer above based on her idea. When I first shared this activity online, Facebook fans helped me brainstorm adjectives to describe books. We came up with 99 different adjectives, and…

How to Create a Classroom Yearbook

…for the front cover of the book. In addition, each scrapbook contained about 10 pages of collages of pictures I had taken throughout the year. I have a whole box…

Weathering, Erosion, or Deposition?

…in the original activity only had written descriptions, but I recently updated this resource, and now the task cards include illustrations of each process, too. I also added two Google…

3 Easy Ways to Wrap up the School Year

…“Back to School” bulletin board idea! 2) “A Little Advice for Surviving Grade ___…” After reflecting back on the year that was, have your students write a short “advice column”…

Teaching Informational Text with Magazines

…read and respond to the articles with graphic organizers or in journals. Because everyone had a copy of the same text and the magazine belonged to them, they could use…

Show What You Know!

…resource includes lessons, tasks, cards and directions for Class Showdown as well as Team Showdown. Preview it online to see if it meets your needs. You can also download one…

Top 20 Tips for Landing a Teaching Job

…and you can read all the suggestions on the original Facebook post. However, since most of you don’t have time to read all of the responses, I selected the top…