With a little ingenuity and the Google suite of products, you can use the Escape the Classroom concept without physical locks and boxes.
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Escape rooms in the Classroom
Have you ever been to an escape room? Escape rooms are great addition in your classroom. If you’ve never been to an escape room, they are an entertainment experience in which you and your team of people, somewhere between 2 and 6 is appropriate, solve puzzles in order to escape from a locked room. TheContinue reading “Escape rooms in the Classroom”
What Makes a Well Designed Classroom Game?
The sweet spot in game design? Making it easy, but not too easy.
Why Should You Gamify Your Classroom
Producing college and career ready students who can think creatively, analyze critically, and make decisions based on data requires intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, grit, and outside-the-box thinking.
When a Colleague is Absent….
There are 3 kinds of coworkers…… The ones who largely ignore it when you are absent. “Oh, you were sick?” The ones who resent your absence. They are actively rude to your sub. “I don’t know what she wants you to do with her classes. You should call her.” They refuse to help your students.Continue reading “When a Colleague is Absent….”
Top 11 Ways to Build Student Engagement in Weather
My Top 10 list for making weather lessons more engaging.
Late days & Getting Dinner Done
I worked late today. There was an assembly today and students came during my lunch for extra help so I wound up not having any prep time today. I had a ton of papers to grade and hadn’t done any planning or setting up for tomorrow yet. The sun was setting when I left workContinue reading “Late days & Getting Dinner Done”
Floating – a density experiment
Did you know that diet soda floats and regular soda sinks? Learn about density with this density column experiment.
Stay Home!
Dear Parents, Please don’t send your children to school sick. We know that you don’t want them to miss any school. We know it’s hard to find child care for sick children. And that’s why we want you to keep them home. Please. If they have a fever that you’re hiding with Tylenol “just soContinue reading “Stay Home!”
Mass and Volume hands on activities
Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln It’s President’s Day. And a 3 day weekend! Most of you are probably relaxing or getting errands done for the week ahead. I spent the morning writing a seriously fantastic mass and volume unit for my resource room 8th graders. I’ll start the unit withContinue reading “Mass and Volume hands on activities”