5 Engaging Ways to Introduce New Content
…advantage: Starting a new novel unit? Try letting your students listen to the first chapter or first few pages without looking at the text. This strategy works similar to that…
…advantage: Starting a new novel unit? Try letting your students listen to the first chapter or first few pages without looking at the text. This strategy works similar to that…
…who feel most comfortable with only one right answer. It gives them practice being uncomfortable and looking for other possibilities. Builds Background Knowledge STEM activities give your students background knowledge…
Fractions can be a tough concept at any grade, so I’m always looking for fun ways to teach them. A few months ago I decided to create a hands-on sorting…
…which involves one digit numbers. For third through fifth grade teachers, the Medium and Hard levels involve two digit numbers, and the Expert level involves three digit numbers. You can…
Guest blog post by Ari Huddleston Looking for some major student engagement? Teaching students about forces is a lot of fun because you can use toys! You can use playground…
…But the hand that I was looking for at the front corner of the class never went up. Justin (let’s call him Justin) just sat there looking away from me,…
…implement. If you’re looking for math centers in particular, be sure to check out my resources for implementing math stations or math centers. Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning activities are naturally…
…the October Activities Pack and print out the chart from there. Pumpkin Predictions Procedure Have students number off around the team, and Person #1 becomes the first recorder. Each team…
…interactive activity to the book. Ask your students to NUMBER their pages in order to be able to use their table of contents effectively. When Do I Use IN In…
…a dolphin is 8 feet long. Since we had just recently read a novel about dolphins, students were really interested to see what 8 feet looked like in real life….
…free up space & assist in clean up. Each center box is labeled with a number and has 4 colored folders inside – one for each learning group in my…
…that celebrities and comedians like to paint a picture of students using number parts and number lines as adults, (ahem–Stephen Colbert) and I laugh right along with them…because using those…
