When you're lost for words after getting engaged, use one of these cute Instagram captions to share the love with all your friends.
Do your students have to create timelines to meet academic standards? I'm sharing 10 engaging types of timelines that make this activity FUN for students!
The 20 best engagement gifts that are actually useful. Along with fun engagement gift ideas and classic engagement gift ideas.
Are you looking for ways to make learning more meaningful in your Secondary ELA Classroom? Check out these twenty five creative project ideas that I have found to be meaningful and successful while also motivating for learners.
A dopa-menu is an excellent ADHD tool to learn how to create healthy habits. Dopamine is closely associated with the brain's reward system. When you engage in activities that lead to pleasurable or rewarding outcomes, dopamine is released, reinforcing the behavior and increasing motivation to repeat it. Each menu section offers what type of dopamine "hit" the activity can bring, from quick hits to more sustainable dopamine increases in the form of "main courses".
Help the learning process with these simple strategies for making studennt thinking visible. Perfect for middle and high school English classes.
Looking for ideas for teaching the Pythagorean Theorem? I’m so excited to share with you some of my favorite activities for this topic. This is one of my favorite things to teach all year, and
Starting the year off by focusing on these 5 science topics, will almost guarantee smoother labs and more engaged science learners.
Fun and engaging vocabulary and word work ideas and activities. Here the some freebies and other ideas for your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade classroom.
Have you ever had a class with so many difficult, disruptive students that you felt that you could barely even teach? What can you do to get past it? In this post, I am going to address this problem with my best advice, and some advice from others as well.
I’m preparing to show some work at the Alpine Arts Center here in Edwards, Colorado, and it got me thinking about my love for (untied) knots. When a friend of mine got engaged years ago in NYC, I vowed to give her a piece of ‘tying the knot’ themed art. I purchased the Ashley Book of Knots for inspiration. Sadly, my friend didn’t get the knot gift, but when my husband proposed to me a year or so later, I told him the story about wanting to make something for my friend (and never getting around to it) and he told me about a rock climbing knot called the grapevine. We ended up having our wedding rings custom made featuring this knot, which is […]
Today I wanted to share about about using 7-Up to introduce new vocabulary. This is a quick and material-free way to engage students with words they are learning! When introducing a new word to stu…
Perhaps it's it's not surprising that a design museum would have good design. It was lovely to visit the Cooper-Hewitt Museum a few weeks ago and discover an interactive exhibit that relied only on great design along with pencils and paper (plus stickers) to create a compelling visitor experience. Yes, I got to try out their pen--but honestly, I enjoyed this more. The goal of the exhibit was to engage visitors in thinking about how our creative efforts in design can help solve problems. Incredibly clear, the exhibit began with a start here and then an overview of the process of visiting the exhibit. Then it led you step-by-step through the design process, beginning with finding a value (interesting, right? museums don't often talk about values as drivers of behavior). Then you moved to a question. They were broad enough to encourage creative thinking, yet I began to see the constraints that encourage creativity being put into place. You're asked to reflect on both question and value. So far, it's been the incubation step in the creative process. We learn what the process is, and we begin to gather information. But the process still needs more information. Because visitors might not be designers, we're given a hand, with a group of design tactics. Will you use a stage, social media, a public bath or a police station to, say, increase access to healthy food? We're reminded that creative combining is a great way to find solutions. That's why we're asked to pick two cards. We've designed our solutions--but that's not the end. We see real-live designers sharing their projects and we see other visitors sharing their solutions. A physician reminds us that "less is more" is often true in medicine as it is in architecture. Finally, you get to place your project where you think, physically, where it belongs. Does it work in a parking lot? on a roof? in a warehouse? Helping to remind us that the city itself is a living laboratory for all kinds of creative experiments (as a rural dweller myself, it's the same thing with different vocabulary). And although it seemed a bit of an afterthought, I loved this cartoon about successful and unsuccessful community design processes, a reminder that community engagement makes all things better. Thanks Cooper Hewitt for providing us all with the reminder that pens and pencils combined with ideas are a place where creativity lives. When it comes time to develop your next exhibit, consider all the alternatives. PS I did use the pen, but did not look up my saved works when I arrived home.
Teaching electricity is exciting when done with pickles in this engaging demonstration that will hook your students and make them want to learn more!
Ways to teach literary elements - three engaging ways to teach the elements of literature with strategies and teaching tips
Don't drill and kill the preterite. Make the preterite fun and soon your students will be talking fluidly about what they did and what happened in the past. Here are some ideas and activities that will make studying the preterite tons of fun for students.
Set a friendly tone in your classroom with these 30 "Get to Know You" games perfect for back to school or when welcoming a new student.
Try these five low prep fast finisher activities and assignments which will be very valuable to your art classroom.
PE Non-Participant On the Sidelines Activity Pack This pack contains a variety of assignments that help keep non-participants engaged in PE class when they are unable to participate: 1. Non- Participant Observation Form: Students make observations and fill out worksheet about each aspect of the class, including: warm-up, skills, rules, strategy and game-play. 2. Sports Journalist Assignment: In Part 1, students write a short article for the sports section of a fictional school newspaper based on their observations during the PE class. Detailed instructions guide students through the article process, from thinking of a catchy headline, to drawing a picture for the article. In Part 2, students unscramble the Sports Jumble to answer a sports-related riddle. (Answers for the Sports Jumble and riddle are provided in the package.) 3. Stopwatch Observation: Using pictures and or words, students fill in the stop-watch based on their observation of the class including: warm-up, skills, rules, strategy and game-play. This is a less detailed observation for younger students or a shorter class. 4. Today’s PE Class on Instagram: Perfect for the social-media savvy or more visual/artistic student. Students highlight moments in the class by drawing an Instagram picture in the provided frames. Each frame corresponds to an element of class. (Warm-up, what we learned, sportsmanship is... etc.)
Try this cool hatching dinosaur eggs science activity for preschoolers with a fizzy baking soda and vinegar reaction. What could be more fun!
How to Declutter Your Wardrobe Decluttering your wardrobe can feel like such a daunting task, especially if you do have a lot of clothes. But it’s one of those things…
Classification is one of those skills that are necessary to teach in science, especially when teaching about the scientific method. Check this out!
If you're looking for ideas to build personal connections and boost morale and productivity, these virtual team building activities will inspire you!
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Are you looking for ways to teach similes like a Rockstar? You’ve come to the right place! Students will be engaged while they learn about figurative language. It will also help you when you are discussing word choice in writing and author’s craft in reading! Read on to learn
Keep a great substitute teacher coming back with these easy and engaging ideas you can leave for a sub.
The reasons your students (or audience members) aren't participating the way you want them to, and some new things you can try to get a better response.
Art Festival and Family Art Night- How to run a Family Art Night. Increase attendance and promote your art department with engaging art activities.
High contrast black & white cards are great for stimulating your baby and helping them develop their eyesight. Hold each card in front of them until they look away - then change to the next! You can also use them to keep them engaged during tummy time or as nursery decor. When the baby's older, these cards can become a matching shapes game or even a memory game - whatever they want them to be! ⬇️ INSTANT DOWNLOAD 60-page pdf file containing 120 black & white cards sized to 12x12 cm / 4.7x4.7 in. Each page has the same design in black on white and white on black, with cut marks. You can easily print these at home or take them to a professional printer for highest quality results. 💟 You may also like: Shapes only High Contrast Baby Cards: https://www.etsy.com/listing/852055425/ Nature only High Contrast Baby Cards: https://www.etsy.com/listing/839266932/ Animals only High Contrast Baby Cards: https://www.etsy.com/listing/853769857/ ✅ DOs Anything that's for personal use! You can always use The Curious Sunflower designs for all kinds of DIY projects. I dare you to be creative and show me what you came up with! If you're interested in using it for commercial purposes, please contact me with the details for an extended license. ❌ DON'Ts You are not allowed to: - Re-sell, share or give away The Curious Sunflower digital files. If someone loves them, please refer them to my shop! - Upload The Curious Sunflower designs to any print-on-demand sites (Amazon Merch, Society6, Redbubble, Café Press, Zazzle, Printful, etc.) 📣 PLEASE NOTE This is a digital file and no physical items will be sent to you. Your files will be available for download as soon as the payment is cleared and you can access them again anytime at Your Account>Purchases and Reviews. Because of the item's digital nature, I only accept cancellations if the files have not been downloaded. Please contact me if there were any issues with your order and I'll be more than happy to help in any way I can. ©️All The Curious Sunflower products are original designs created by Miriam Ferrer. 🌻
Teach CVC words the fun way with 5 easy and engaging activities. Get ready to watch your young learners blossom into confident readers!
Check out these 6 ideas to use as science time fillers in your grade 5 6 7 class to keep students engaged.
Showing students that math is a flexible subject can be powerful. So many kids (and adults) believe that math is all about getting right answers. But it's not! When we can show students that there
