Hands-on Water Cycle Fun!

…transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and run-off! Those containers were a super way to give students hands-on experience creating a water cycle. It was wonderful to be able to have something concrete…

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

…with the video like an online quiz and several activity pages. But I wanted to create a few more items to include cooperative learning lessons, vocabulary practice, and discussion cards….

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

…easy and fun, and my kids loved looking through all of the scrapbooks from years past. Each student created one page in the scrapbook, and we had a design contest…

Weathering, Erosion, or Deposition?

…islands with the class, they have to explain how those landforms might have been formed. We read books about weathering, erosion, and deposition, and even take walks outside to observe…