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Does lesson planning take you HOURS? Are you spending way too much time thinking up or searching out a creative, engaging way for kids to practice what they’ve learned? Have your students lost interest in school because you're forced to give them so many boring test prep worksheets? The solution is simple: add more engaging activities to your teaching “box of tricks”! I’m sharing my own personal box of tricks: no-prep learning activities that I’ve tested out in a wide variety of classrooms for more than fifteen years. You can plug these activities into almost any lesson as a way for students to practice the concepts/skills you've taught them. In this file, you’ll get: * 35 adaptable activities in a PDF list format that you can keep digitally or print out and store in your lesson plan binder * The same 35 adaptable activities in 3x5 card size so that you can print them on card stock, cut them out, and store them in an index card case for easy reference. Use dividers to separate and organize the activities in any way that makes sense for your teaching context: by subject area, length of time the activity takes, most popular with students, etc. Add your own ideas on index cards, and keep expanding your personal box of tricks! WHAT MAKES THESE STRATEGIES SO VALUABLE FOR STUDENTS? ✓ Kids enhance their learning by constructing the content themselves, instead of you as the teacher creating the content on your own time and passing it out for students to passively consume. ✓ Test prep becomes a highly engaging activity that encourages critical thinking, discussion, collaboration, and the active participation of students WHAT MAKES THESE STRATEGIES SO VALUABLE FOR TEACHERS? ✓ Adaptable for ANY subject area ✓ Adaptable for ANY grade level 3rd and up (or modify for students who aren’t yet reading/writing independently) ✓ No special materials: you’ll need only basic classroom supplies, like scratch paper, pencils, and scissors ✓ No prep: you can choose any one of these activities and be ready to teach it immediately ✓ Turn worksheets into a collaborative, higher-level thinking activity 10 of the ideas will help you turn worksheets into engaging collaborative activities. Another 25 activities are worksheet-free and simply provide an easy way for kids to practice the skills you’ve just taught them (so you can ditch the worksheets and traditional pencil-and-paper activities altogether.) Click here for FREE sample strategies: 5 ways to turn a worksheet into a collaborative, critical-thinking activity! Nothing else like The Teacher's Box of Tricks exists in a ready-to-use format. Why waste time reinventing the wheel and creating all your own learning strategies from scratch when you can build on a activities that are already proven to be engaging and meaningful for students? Enjoy! Angela NOTE: This resource is included at no cost for members of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club, as part of our focus in the month of NOVEMBER on Lesson Planning in the Full Year program and Week 5 in the Fast Track program.
This book examines the challenges to the research field brought about by the emergence of collaboratively constructed language resources (CCLR), such as Wikipedia and Wiktionary. It offers a comprehensive overview of the significant work in CCLRs and NLP.
Owners, architects, and contractors alike all tout the advantages of collaboration in building projects. No doubt, collaboration has become an industry buzzword, and in the complexity of contemporary society, collaboration is a virtual necessity to successfully plan, design, build, and maintain our physical environment. But it takes more than lip...
A dynamic, dependable name with vast potential. Possible uses: A consulting firm. A collaboration platform. A construction company. A beauty brand. An app.
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This sentence collaboration game comes from ehow! materials: sentence strips and markers Practice writing compound sentences and working with coordinating conjunctions by scrambling sentences! Kids
Collaborative Problem-Solving in Math - group work for math where everyone works
As it would turn out, making giant paper cup pyramids is difficult for preschoolers, but what a great STEM activity to supplement our Around the World theme!
Qui êtes-vous et qu’est-ce que l’on est réellement? Lorsque vous parlez de « vous-même », de qui parlez-vous vraiment? Du soi qui s’identifie à l’esprit et qui rêvasse et pense toute la journée? Du soi qui s’identifie au corps et qui collabore avec lui comme un véhicule fait de chair? Nous vivons notre vie comme des organismes...
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book An NCTE Notable Poetry Book Fourteen poems compiled by award-winning poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins introduce readers to the various construction people who collaborate...
Are your students stuck in an individualistic mindset? Integrate collaborative posters into your classroom to help students learn a valuabl life skill.
Constructivist Learning Theory is an approach to education that promotes active learning. This theory posits that individuals construct their prior knowledge
Use this RAPP Strategy bookmark and graphic organizer to help students develop their answer to Constructed Response Questions(CRQ's) step by step. These are especially helpful for test prep, but can be used year round to help students construct a response. Included: RAPP Graphic Organizer - lined and unlined version RAPP Bookmark - formatted two to a page As always - to ensure your happiness with this product, please ask ANY and ALL questions before purchasing. Thank you so much! © The Fun Sized Teacher
I always liked to make it a point to incorporate several simple team building activities within the first few weeks of school. The science classroom is an ideal environment to promote group interaction. These activities
Team-Building in a Student-Led Classroom
Alle lichamen die bewegen hebben kinetische energie. Deze energie kun je ook doorgeven zoals in onderstaande bollen van Newton is te zien. In deze GIF animatie gaat de beweging eeuwig door maar in …
Team spirit may not come naturally to all teenagers. So they must learn the skill through various activities. Find practical teen team-building activities here.
Last year the cup stack was one of my FAVORITE team building activities (see post here). So, naturally, I wanted to give it another shot! The Cup Stack is a fun, yet challenging activity that promotes team work. The supplies are basic: cups, string, rubber bands. I go ahead and tie the string to the rubber bands so it is ready to go. I make a few for groups of 4 and a few for groups of 5, this way no matter what the numbers are in the classroom I can make it work. I start by asking students what teamwork is. What does it look like? sound like? feel like? We brainstorm a list of ideas that I hang in the classroom for students to refer to. Each class comes up with a variety of ideas, but they all center around the same theme. Then I introduce their challenge. I start off my admitting that this will be a frustrating activity. We discuss ways to handle our stress and feelings that arise when others make a mistake or don't do what we want them to do. I model that they will each be given 6 cups and a rubberband with strings attached to it. Their job is to stack the cups into a design by only holding onto their individual string. I demonstrate that when everyone pulls on their string the rubberband opens wider, and vice versa. I also show them the challenges of picking up a cup that has tipped on its side or fallen on the floor. No matter what happens, they must follow the one rule: YOU CAN ONLY TOUCH YOUR STRING. No touching the rubber band, no touching the cup, and no touching other group member's strings. I reinforce how communication is so important in order to reach the goal. Then I set them off. Here are some videos and pics. After about 10-15 minutes, we pause and reflect on our experiences. I ask them to rate their group on how well they worked together using the ideas we wrote at the beginning of the lesson. I ask them what went well for their group. I also ask them what didn't go well for their group. We talk about different strategies and ways we an handle ourselves when things don't go the way we want them to. Throughout the activity I walk around and facilitate positive communication, so I usually have a few examples to help springboard the discussion.
Sophia Michopoulou: Augmented reality as an intuitive tool for construction. This proposal aims to use augmented reality (AR) technology as a tool for construction, engaging and guiding the community through the building process.
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When John and Laura Beck replaced their source for heating in their Mattawan home this fall, they installed a geothermal system. The Becks previously heated their home with oil, but when the furnace began giving them trouble and with the high cost of fossil fuels, they decided to make a change.
This book presents the design and manufacturing of microsystems as well as necessary key technologies developed within the Collaborative Research Center 516. The research efforts of this collaboration are focused on active micro systems which are based on the electromagnetic actuator principle. The travel of the investigated actuator systems is on the order…
Mentor sentences are a great way to blend reading, writing, and grammar. Here are some ideas for how you can use them in fun, yet meaningful ways.
I absolutely love teaching poetry! That explains why I teach it ALL year! Each month I focus on TWO types of poetry and then during POETRY MONTH, we review all of our work, create poetry portfolios for a review, and have a POETRY SLAM! Read on for details! 1. BULLETIN BOARD At the beginning of the year, make a bulletin board to display posters of the different types of poetry. Leave a space below each one to place a student example. Review it with your class and tell them by the end of the year, they will have written an example of all the types. For the time being, put a little sign under each type of poetry that says something like, "Under Construction" or "Coming Soon!" I place a large 12" X 18" black piece of construction paper under the posters. 2. MONTHLY POEMS Each month, introduce a new type of poem and teach the rules for that poem. If you created a bulletin board like above, add a student example. The following order works well for upper elementary! August- Couplets and Quatrains September- Acrostic and Cinquain October- Haiku and Humorous November- Diamante and Informative December- Free Verse and Concrete January- Narrative and Lyrical February- BioPoem and Ballad March- Limerick and Parody April- Review and Poetry Portfolios (see below) May- Poetry Slam 3. POETRY AND LYRICS ANALYSIS In addition to introducing a new type of poetry each month, also choose a poem or song to analyze each month. I actually try to do two of these a month - one regular poem and one song to analyze the lyrics. Students love the musical feature and I start to see them wiggle in their seats and try to sing the songs. I allow them to sing and even dance to the songs. Any little thing to get them excited about learning poetry! I love when they say, "My dad likes that music!" or "Who is that?" Use the following elements of poetry when analyzing poems! Alliteration- Ex. Slimy slugs slither slowly on the sidewalk. Imagery- Ex. The thick fuzzy coat was a blessing in the winter blizzard. Metaphor- Ex. A good laugh is sunshine in a house. Onomatopoeia- Ex. Bang, ding, pop! Personification- Ex. The wind whistled its happy tune. Repetition- Ex. Leaving my friends, leaving my home leaving my room, leaving my memories Rhyme- Ex. School, tool, rule Rhyme Scheme- Ex. Roses are red A data-blogger-escaped-comment-StartFragment Violets are blue B Sugar is sweet C And so are you. B Rhythm- (musical quality) Simile- Ex. She was as pale as a lump of sugar. Stanza- (a poetry paragraph) Theme- (the message) Tone- (feeling) Grab these free poetry study cards! 4. POETRY PORTFOLIO At the end of the year, I like to have students create their own Poetry Portfolio. Basically, they get out their notes from throughout the year or I supply them with directions. Since it is a review, I don't usually teach the rules for each of the poems. I either give it as a class project in centers or homework. If you don't have time for your class to write new poems for each different type, save the poems throughout the year and create a portfolio of poems. 5. POETRY SLAM Finish off the year with a Poetry Slam! Oh yeah! Students love to share their work and this way they can show ownership and pride of their hard work. 1. Allow your students to relax around the room and enjoy listening to poetry from their fellow classmates or set up chairs for them. It can be formal or informal! 2. Set up a schedule so students know the order of when to share their poems. 3. Have a special author's chair? Use it! 4. Do you have iPads, tablets, video cameras? Have the student videotape! I have my students rotate. After they present, they go to the video chair. That way each student gets the experience of both being the videographer and the presenter! AND parents absolutely love to see these videos! Thank you for visiting! Come back to get some more amazing ideas from Upper Elementary Snapshots!!!! If you need poetry resources, click below! They are sold separately too. Connect With Me! TPT Store Facebook Pinterest My Blog
What Can You Create With A Cardboard Box? In this project, which serves as a fantastic introduction to project-based learning, students will use 21st century skills to create innovative uses for a cardboard box. They will use creativity and collaboration to brainstorm, plan, and build a box creation with a partner or group. Students will learn to use the critique process to give and receive feedback in order to revise their end product. Finally, pairs will exhibit their creations to an audience of their choosing. Throughout the project students will use the common core speaking, listening and writing standards to clearly communicate their ideas to their group and a real world audience. There are handouts, examples, a reflection, and a rubric included in this lesson. This project is designed to have a structure compatible with implementing PBL in the classroom. NextLesson projects include certain key components that facilitate an authentic PBL experience.
Looking for an amazing STEM activity that's exciting for the whole class? These STEM straw bridges will spark creativity in your little engineers!
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While coworking can be broadly defined by a handful of terms and principles - community, collaboration, and workspace, to name a few - the combination of these values, and the emphasis placed on each, varies from space to space. And as the community evolves, so too will the ethos of a space. Finding an ethos - or set of values - reflective of an ever-changing community is a challenge all coworking space operators face.
