There's something here to match every teacher personality, and most of them are easy enough for anyone to do.
Truth is, finding virtual dissection and labs isn't as hard as it used to be. We have a list of the best Virtual Dissection and Labs for Homeschoolers!
Looking for a fun vocabulary activity? This extension is perfect for middle and high school to help encourage critical thinking and associations.
Foods around the world or global foods ideas for culinary arts and FACS. International foods including South American foods, Italian Foods, Asian foods and so much more!
Looking for games to play with a classroom? This list of English games in the classroom is exactly what you need to engage students!
Find short stories difficult to teach? Here are five of my favourites that your students will love to analyze. A free lesson plan will be available, too!
Last week Kenny, Olivia and I completed our last anatomy and physiology lessons on the cardiovascular system.
Make word study fun and engaging for your students.
Mindfulness is a great tool to help manage anxiety, Embrace calmness and ease your troubled mind with these 5
Summer is a great time to head outdoors and look at the sky. During the day, the skies are blue and the white billowing clouds are so pretty. At night, the stars twinkle in the
Preparing our teens to cook for themselves will both save them money and allow them to eat healthier. Cooking Basics for Teens will help you, help them.
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Kids LOVE learning about the human body. It's so fascinating! Videos are a great way for them to learn about different body systems and organs. Here is a list of human body videos for kids on YouTube that are a perfect
Looking for ideas for a homeschool high school health class? Ditch the textbook and try this list!
Lesson plan ideas for observations for middle school and high school teachers. Specifically for culinary arts and family and consumer science teachers.
For real. No cheesy music, no bad acting, and no trick endings where everyone is okay and it was all just a big misunderstanding. Seriously, your students are going to love these and they have just the right amount of horror while still being appropriate for school. Myths and Legends I can't say enough about ...
Looking for even more short stories to read with your middle school and high school students? There are so many options out there, many of which can be used to teach a variety of literary elements and lead into interesting discussions and activities. Read on for 15 recommendations from secondary English Language Arts teachers.
Now that the 2017-2018 school year has come to a close, I am spending some time reflecting on my practice as an educator. While there were some lows of the
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Let’s not forget to teach our teens life skills along with academics. Here's a Plan for the Easiest High School Curriculum for Life Skills!
Teen budget worksheets are a great way to help teach kids how to budget and how to track expenses. I round up the best (free) budget planners for teenagers. A
A fast and easy way to simply filling out classroom forms, document student behavior, and catalogue interactions with parents.
Looking for even more short stories to read with your middle school and high school students? There are so many options out there, many of which can be used to teach a variety of literary elements and lead into interesting discussions and activities. Read on for 15 recommendations from secondary English Language Arts teachers.
High School Homeschool Curriculum for the 9th-grade. Check out these core curriculum and elective resources for your teenager's freshman year of high school
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Developing accountability skills is essential for individuals who want to achieve growth, whether it’s a degree, a career, a work promotion or a business. Accountability is part of how we grow. Here are my favorite quotes on accountability. I hope these will inspire you as well.
I never would have thought I would be tracking data digitally, I am really not that savvy when it comes to tech, however, when someone pointed out how easy it was, I had to try it. You guys, its sooo much easier than my typical paper and pencil tracking system. I had data sheets EVERYWHERE!! […]
Digital behavior tracking saves time by stream lining checklists into a digital format. Use Google Forms to keep track of behaviors.
Learn how I set up the banking system for my middle school classroom economy using an online bank and a check template!
Want your students to read more nonfiction while enjoying it and getting more out of the experience? Want to get ready for standardized reading assessments and improve your students' reading and comprehension skills? With these no prep, highly-interesting, and challenging articles for high school level, you'll see major improvements a little at a time week over week. Why article of the week? Reading pedagogy suggests that students are most successful with a text when they revisit it more than once with a different and meaningful purpose each time. The "article of the week" approach does that. Get ready for standardized reading assessments and improve your students' reading and comprehension skills a little at a time week over week! Interesting and challenging articles for high school level! How is this article of the week resource different? With this resource, I've designed daily tasks unique to the articles linked in that give students a meaningful and skills-based reason to revisit the article of the week again each day. With the exception of the day students are answering the provided questions, the tasks can be completed in 10 minutes or so! It would be perfect for bell ringers, RTI, test tutoring, and more! It can be used in any subject wanting to get in more reading! What content will students be held accountable for? - Three vocabulary words each week for words in context - Five text-based questions each week (including skills such as central idea, author's purpose, bias, counterclaims, etc.) - Figurative language - Making connections with text to text, text to self, and text to world - Synthesizing, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Researching, and more! Is it flexible, editable, and up-to-date? This is a classroom-tested set of 36 nonfiction articles that have been carefully curated and selected to be timeless, interesting, and grade-appropriate for high school students. Everything in this resource is in 100% editable format. Additionally, this resource provides you two, flexible options for you to implement this article of the week program: Option #1 is the projectable questions and Option #2 is the printable and reader's notebook. I've also included a daily task outline to use in order to build on the reading and responding process each day - if you want to do it that way. This a really a one-stop, flexible resource for implementing a text-based daily reading program, article of the week, or reader's notebook. Included: 1) Two formats of the projectable questions: PDF and PPT 2) Three formats of the printable reader's notebook in ink-friendly black and white: PDF, PPT, and Google. This option is perfect if you are a paperless school because these editable files can be shared in secure online classrooms very easily! 3) Each set of questions is completely originally written and classroom tested 4) All answers are included for the questions 5) Vocabulary quizzes and answers (Printable and Editable Word Doc and Self-Checking Google Format) 6) Daily plan for reading each day in two formats: PDF and PPT 7) Rubric for easy grading 8) Mapping of weekly skills for teacher prep 9) Link to formatted articles Some topics in this file include: grades, bottled water, refugees, overpopulation, violent video games, pumpkin spice, college dropouts, food waste, net neutrality, volcanoes, robots. Interesting and challenging articles for high school level! Learn more before you give it a try: On Instagram and on my Blog Classroom success stories from other teachers who have tried this resource: ♥ "Julie's resource is going to save me hours of work that I would normally spend to find suitable articles & generate challenging questions that require thinking and closer reading of my students. I've purchased her resources in the past and I know I can always count on them for my senior English classes." ♥ "An exceptional Resource. Thank you for the wonderful collection of articles and the quizzes and worksheets to go with the articles. This is fantastic to accompany the reading and writing program we are implementing. Definitely a time saver for teachers. Thank you!!" ♥ "This is perfect for my struggling high school readers class!" ♥ "I love all of Julie Faulkner's resources. This is no exception. Thanks" ♥ "I just love everything I've purchased from Julie and this resource is no different! Zero prep required and will be incredibly helpful next year in my sophomore class. I am so excited to use this!" See Also: Article of the Week for Journalism Paragraph of the Week for High School Paragraph of the Week for Middle School Poem of the Week for High School Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches. Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to FOLLOW ME. Voila! You will now receive email updates about my store. For more ideas and inspiration: Faulkner's Fast Five Blog Julie's Classroom Stories on Instagram Julie's Classroom Stories on Facebook Teaching Middle and High School English Facebook Group Yearbook and Journalism Facebook Group Pinterest Terms of Use: Please one classroom use only. Not to be shared online without proper security. Additional licenses sold at a discount at checkout.
Movies is often much more engaging than lecturing to your students. Having students actually see extinction happening in the documentary Racing Extinction is much more powerful than me talking about it. While I don’t usually show full length movies in my classroom (more often clips), they can be a great supplement to your curriculum. I’ve ... Read more
This End-of-Year Escape Room focuses on growth mindset, career readiness, and mindfulness! Your students will work through five (5) detailed missions as they earn keys to unlock them. This is an engaging and interactive project for students to complete before the end of the year!
Teaching about food trucks is a fun and relevant lesson for your Culinary Arts students. This blog post describes our experience with food trucks.
To help reluctant readers, it is even more important that we find the perfect books for high school students who hate reading.
Research says that the middle school years are critical to developing a student's interest in science. Come see what middle school science should look like.
If you have a teenager that likes crime stories and police shows they may be interested in learning about forensic science.
