Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

…Wikipedia article may not be 100% accurate. After your students read the article, work together as a class to create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two versions…

Host a Classroom Scrabble Tournament!

…the computer by working in cooperative learning teams. Students in teams can put their heads together to come up with a word to beat the computer. Call on each team…

Family Science Night: Hands-on, Minds-on Fun!

…http://carolwooten.weebly.com/science-night/; however, remember that the list is not cookie-cutter. It can be adapted to meet the needs of various schools. Develop a school team of interested members and delegate a…

Halting Back Talkers in Their Tracks!

…here to download all the free rule posters.) Children who dawdle along, can claim they are following directions quickly. Chatty students can claim they weren’t speaking to anyone. Your most…

Teaching with Dry Erase Boards

…or the rectangular ones. I love Julia’s boards because they are 2-sided and can be customized with different surfaces. You can choose between an unlined surface, handwriting lines, graph paper,…

Pumpkin Predictions Measurement Fun!

…whether to use the metric system or the customary system when taking measurements. Before you begin, have each team create a chart like the one shown below for recording data….