If you are looking for engaging ideas for teaching forms of energy, look no further! These activities will help your students learn in a meaningful way. Includes ideas for cooperative learning strategies, teacher lead notetaking, and games for review. Students will review forms of energy including MELTS (mechanical, electrical, light, thermal, and sound energy).
The Fishbowl Game combines the classic games of Taboo, Charades, and Password into one fun experience. Who can play? All ages!
The first page of this handout leads students through a webquest. Students explore on-line interactive games and quizzes which teach homophones. All links are included and the handout asks students to record findings and results to prove learning to the teacher. The second page offers students a co...
It's that time! Back to school! And if you've ever worked in a school, you know that means large group icebreakers, teachers games, and teacher team building! My school administrators usually have pretty interesting teachers inservice ideas including planning large group games for school staff during our professional development meetings. Last year, my admin team organized a super fun and simple mystery gift swap game for our huge group of staff members. It was one of the best large group team building games for teachers we have played. But you can play big group games for team meetings of any
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You can never have too many ways to reinforce steady beat because students learn in so many different ways!
Back to school time brings faculty meetings. Increase school climate with these faculty meeting ideas. Professional development for teachers should be done your way.
This Free Printable Rhyming I Have Who Has Game is such a fun way to review rhyming words! Hop over and download it for FREE!
This year, I wanted to be intentional with my third graders as it relates to relationship. We started that on the first day of school. One of the things I’m most passionate about when it comes to academic achievement is building to mastery.Some students LOVE the first day of school, but not all students are...Read More »
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100% Customizable Skittles Icebreaker Template! Clean and simple template that can be customized to your own colors, candy, or questions. Change the elements to suit your needs. Great icebreaker for the classroom or business retreat! Hand out as many Skittles as you would like or each person can have their own bag. Great activity for kids and adults alike. Save as .pdf to print as shown. Download the completed file as a .jpg file and paste into a word processing program to change the size as needed. This is an instantly downloadable Canva Template which is 100% customizable in the FREE version of Canva. This means that you can easily personalize this template to suit your needs. YOUR PURCHASE INCLUDES: 1 PDF with Canva Link (to edit) 1 Printable PDF *PLEASE NOTE * → This product is for personal use, and NOT for commercial use. → This does not include a physical product. You will be able to customize, print, and cut your template. If you have any questions regarding this product, please feel free to reach out before you make your purchase. →Colors may vary slightly from what is shown due to the printing process and device settings. This is a digital product and nothing physical will be shipped to you. Due to the nature of this product, all sales are final and refunds or exchanges are not possible. DIRECTIONS TO ACCESS YOUR PURCHASE: → After your order is complete, you will see a link to download your files. This link can also be found at www.etsy.com/your/purchases → Download the PDF which includes link and instructions → Sign up for a FREE Canva account or log in to your account → Click the underlined LINK in the PDF document and click "Use Template" → Once in Canva, you will be able to edit the colors, fonts, images, and personalize
Do your students thrive on competitive games? Are you looking for competition games for your classroom? Check out this blog post!
The four corners icebreaker game is one of my favorites! It's quick and easy. It will get people up and moving. Read the full directions here.
As early childhood teachers, we know how important it is to teach not only academic skills but also those social skills that will last a lifetime! Children who have well-developed social skills tend to do better academically than children who are less socially adept (Lin, Lawrence, and Gorrell 2003). I want to share what I have been using in my classroom to help my students in their social-emotional development...introducing This solution chart supports my students in solving their own problems! In the beginning of the year, I introduced each solution separately by modeling a scenario and how this solution can help resolve a conflict. Eventually, all of the visual reminders went up on this door and when a conflict arose, I encouraged my students to find a solution to their problem. They walked over to the solution chart and chose a solution that made sense in that situation. I provided a lot of support in the beginning of the year in selecting a solution and eventually my students were very good doing this independently. I found this solution chart to be incredibly empowering for my students because they were able to keep the peace by solving their own conflicts and I could spend more time teaching. Win win! Vanderbilt's Center on the Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning has some fabulous resources for teaching those crucial social-emotional skills. This website has scripted social stories that are great for teaching students how to act and respond in a variety of situations as well as ideas for teaching social-emotional skills through storybook read-alouds, among many other resources. You can find the visual reminders seen above under the Teaching Social Emotional Skills heading on the CSEFEL website. You can grab the header I made [HERE]. I've also compiled some other social-emotional development resources on Pinterest [HERE]. How do you teach social-emotional skills in your classroom?
Recently, I was talking to a first year Assistant Principal who was explaining the challenges of school administration to me (the AP had no...
These "Back to School" themed Color by Sum & Color by Difference activity sheets are perfect for the first few days of school! They also make for great homework or substitute worksheets throughout the year! What's Included: -6 Color by Sum activity sheets -6 Color by Difference activity sheets -2 Answer Key picture sheets (each answer key has 3 fully colored pictures which can serve as a reference for students to check their work, or for teachers to quickly check and grade student work) Addition & Subtraction Practice: -Each of the 6 pictures included comes with an addition and a subtraction practice sheet. -This allows teachers to use this resource to practice both operations. Easy Differentiation: -3 of the sheets for each operation focus on math facts 0 to 10 -3 of the sheets for each operation focus on math facts 0 to 20 -This allows teachers to easily differentiate student learning. -It also allows teachers to use this resource both in the beginning of the year, and later on in the year as students begin learning and practicing larger numbers.
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
The book "Visual Perception Skills for Children with Dyslexia | PART 4: Visual Memory" provides intervention material aimed at developing the visual perception skills of school-age children. It contains exercises and activities designed to enhance the visual skill of visual memory.
I love teaching math with a deck of cards! It is simple, the games are usually a lot of FUN, and a deck of cards is accessible to almost every child out there. I have shared plenty of card games in the past, but today I wanted to share two more of my favorites for […]
Start off the school year by giving your students a little insight into who you are! Investigate the teacher is a must in my classroom and it always leads to great organic conversations and storytelling to help break the ice of a new year. This assignment is best completed in table groups to promote team work with new classmates. It is encouraged to bring in some items from your personal life as "clues" to help student determine what is true and what is false. Print the cards, laminate them, and use them for years to come for an easy first week of school. What is included: Class instructions, Teacher Instructions, and Printing Instructions Card template. Fill in the the statements about yourself on this google slides template to be printed and distributed to your class. Slides: Use the slides when the activity is over to reveal what is true and false about you as the teacher. Looking for more First Day/Week of school activities? Guess Who Back to School Edition Digital 20 Question: Back to School Get to Know You
Classifying Living Things Escape Room Game Try this escape room, style game with your students today! This is a fun game that is perfect for teaching children about the ways that living things can be classified. This game focuses on students finding out facts and information and using these to solve puzzles. This helps them to learn about the different groups living things can be placed in and why this is so important. This activity is great for the beginning of a topic to introduce information or at the end to recap. Students are trying to help an alien understand classifying; they must solve a series of clues, as well as decode different ciphers. There is also a video to start the game off; the video is included along with a YouTube link if you prefer to use that. This is an interactive game which can be timed. Students try and solve clues and questions before the time is up, you the teacher, can decide how much time your students have to complete the task. I suggest 45 minutes, but it is up to you. The tasks can be placed around the classroom for students to find for a more active game or distributed by you at their desks. After each task is solved students win a puzzle piece, the final puzzle along with the answers to the tasks lead the students to a phrase which directs to a congratulatory video (also on YouTube but with a copy provided) Please ask if you have any questions
Happy teachers mean happy students. Here is a list of ways to build morale, support teacher wellbeing and have fun as a teaching team at school.
Happy teachers mean happy students. Here is a list of ways to build morale, support teacher wellbeing and have fun as a teaching team at school.
Want to take your teaching to the next level? Use this Investigative approach to having students learn about the Five Components of a Civilization and the Four River Valley Civilizations. Using the CSI Training Manual, your students will embark on a fantastic journey through Mesopotamia. The CSI Training Manual is FREE on the iBooks store and will lead your students to become a fully certified CSI Investigator. Once they are certified, they will demonstrate their Mastery of these new skills by completing research on the Four River Valley Civilizations. Finally, the students will participate in the Ultimate Civilization Challenge where they will create their own unique civilizations! CSI: Mesopotamia CSI (Civilization Scene Investigation): Mesopotamia is a Civilization Scene Investigation student led Inquiry Based Lesson that focuses on the student finding and discerning the correct information based on the Five Components of a Civilization. Resources include Four Graphic Organizers: CSI: Mesopotamia Graphic Organizer (Blank), CSI: Mesopotamia Graphic Organizer with Answers, CSI: Map of the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) Activity, and CSI: Map of the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) Quiz, PLUS THE MAP ANSWER KEY! This is one set in a series (Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Indus River Valley, and Ancient China) If you like this idea of students learning and inquiring then please look at the other three CSI's for Egypt, Indus River Valley, and China. Also created for this Unit is an Interactive Book: CSI Training Manual by Robert C. Lawson, which is freely available on the iBooks store. (pdf's available upon request).
The Unfair Game is a totally unfair twist on Jeopardy that your students will LOVE to hate! Learn how to play and find sample game boards in this post.
Taking students outside for review games and activities is the perfect way to mix things up and engage your students! This post shares five different engaging outdoor review games and ideas that are perfect for upper elementary students.
Preschoolers and toddlers will love moving like things found on the farm with this free printable gross motor farm movement game! Print and play!
In my family, we call this game Basta, but it many names. It is called Tutti frutti, ¡Mercadito!, Stop, Lápiz quieto, Animales con E, Alto el fuego, or Ensalada rusa, depending on the country. A Basta game is fun Spanish vocabulary practice as players think of words in categories
What have we been up to this week? Decimals and more decimals! Starting with ordering decimals least to greatest and heading into...
A low-prep review game that students love and works for multiple subjects
In this blog post, I'll share how I've utilized spiral reviews to boost Biology exam scores and enhance student learning outcomes.
