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Ask Three Before Me
This "oldie but goodie" still has legs. Teaching in a K-6 computer lab with 20+ students at a time can be quite taxing when the questions come fast and furious...
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Bean Bag Count
Everyone loves to squish and toss a bean bag! Here’s a fun review game you can play with your students on those days it’s just too cold to go outside.
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Calendar Math
At the beginning of each month I cut out shapes according to the season or the holiday. Every day we write a number on a shape and place it on the wall around the perimeter of the room. We count each ...
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Can Do Challenge
Here is a fun way to help students overcome 'I can't do it' thinking. While students are sitting at their desks, tell them to: 1) Lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2) Now,...
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Crime Lab Science
In my many years of teaching chemistry and physics, I observed that the laboratory investigations that created the most enthusiasm were those that cast the student in the role of crime lab analyst. Ra...
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
To liven up the end of the day, I bring out the game Mind Trap and select a card to read to the class. The challenge sometimes is so intriguing that I send the class home to ponder the clue overnight....
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Independent Thinkers I
Periodically, I have students who ask exorbitant amounts of questions, either for lack of using their skills to figure out an answer or for attention. I developed a plan to curb this behavior. When ap...
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Independent Thinkers II
Standards demand that content be placed in an environment where children discover processes and results on their own. Whenever children raise a question, I allow them the opportunity to answer themsel...
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Learning Centers
When a handful of my students finish their work ahead of the class, I return to the idea first encountered 20 years ago as a beginning teacher: instructional centers. Varying the centers to focus more...
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Parking Lot Survey
Students can use their state designated laptops to conduct a Parking Lot Survey. As teams, they count the automobiles in their assigned section of the school parking lot, recording quantities of make,...
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