I’ve just posted a new freebie in my TpT store and I know you’re going to want to download it ASAP to get ready for all the ways you can use it this year! I have, who has. This fantastic game is great for a 5 minute whole class review. It takes a little bitContinue reading “Game Template Freebie”
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I hate wearing a mask
I’m sure you do, too. My glasses fog. I feel claustrophobic and sometimes that leads to anxiety. My ears hurt. My face breaks out. I feel like I have to yell if someone is more than a few feet away from me. I can’t always tell what people are saying if they’re wearing a maskContinue reading “I hate wearing a mask”
Creating a Choice Board
You want your students to demonstrate mastery of a concept of skill. However, it’s not so important how they demonstrate it. That’s a perfect opportunity to differentiate and give students some choice. One opportunity for student choice is a choice board. In a choice board, students are given a range of options to demonstrate theirContinue reading “Creating a Choice Board”
Back To School Activities
The first few days of school are special. You’re meeting strangers who are going to quickly become some of the most important people in your life. Students from many years ago still tell me that they remember what I was wearing or what joke I told on the first day of school. Make your firstContinue reading “Back To School Activities”
Time Out for Neowise
Have you seen Comet Neowise yet? We weren’t motivated enough to see it during its morning apparitions, but the evening ones gave us hope. We have a good western horizon near us so we ventured out a few night ago. There were maybe a dozen or so people sharing the view with us on MondayContinue reading “Time Out for Neowise”
10 Ideas to Increase Distance Learning Engagement
Whether we’re back in school full time in September or in some sort of hybrid model, we’re going to need to address the elephant in the room – engagement. Students will have a difficult time adjusting to either model after 3 months of remote instruction in the spring. There will be plenty of challenges butContinue reading “10 Ideas to Increase Distance Learning Engagement”
Energy Sources PBL
Problem based activity to introduce, reinforce, and assess student understanding of energy sources.
Designing a Hybrid Unit
Last week I hypothesized that schools would be moving toward hybrid schedules – in person instruction some days and remote or distance learning other days. The challenge is to cover the same content in less contact time. This is a unit I designed on atomic structure. What do I want to accomplish? On paper, I’mContinue reading “Designing a Hybrid Unit”
Moving to Hybrid Learning
We’ve been doing “hybrid learning” for years – we used to call it Flipped Learning and Station model.
Building relationships
The name of the game in middle school is building relationships. Students learn more from teachers that they feel a connection with. It’s important to teach standards based content. But it’s more important to teach students. Which is why I include relationship building into my lesson plans. Every Friday, the normal Bellringer for my middleContinue reading “Building relationships”