Lesson Plans
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Planning Lessons With the Student Experience in Mind
Providing students with clear directions and easy-to-navigate content is especially important during distance learning.1.1k5 Home Learning Experiences for the Elementary Grades
Activities that incorporate speaking and listening, reading and writing, math, music, science, art, and drama—and are parent-friendly.2.1kDeepening Learning With Understanding by Design
Learners benefit when teachers intentionally plan their units backward—starting with the desired outcome.1.6k22 Powerful Closure Activities
Quick activities that can be used to check for understanding or emphasize key information at the end of a lesson.50.5k5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices
We teachers are always looking to innovate, so, yes, it's essential that we try new things to add to our pedagogical bag of tricks. But it's important to focus on purpose and intentionality -- and not on quantity. So what really matters more than "always trying something new" is the reason behind why we do what we do.55.7kKindness: A Lesson Plan
Classroom activities and resources for developing a vital character trait.15.8k5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students
Many would agree that for inquiry to be alive and well in a classroom that, amongst other things, the teacher needs to be expert at asking strategic questions. With that in mind, if you are a new teacher or perhaps not so new but know that question-asking is an area where you'd like to grow, start tomorrow with these five ideas.28.4kDesigning Science Inquiry: Claim + Evidence + Reasoning = Explanation
The Claim, Evidence, Reasoning framework is a scaffolded way to teach the scientific method.22.7kBreaking the Ice With Student-Made Videos
Combining the six-word memoir with a film containing six shots gives students a way to introduce themselves at the beginning of the year.4.1kThe Great Gingerbread House Project
Keeping fourth graders engaged in math in the run-up to winter break is easier with this sweet project.7.9kBell Ringer Exercises
Because of pressure to teach bell-to-bell, many classrooms now start with bell work—short exercises that students complete while the instructor handles attendance and other administrative chores. I’ve collected several creative, practical, and entertaining exercises that can function as bell ringers or sponge activities.18.2k22 Simple Ideas for Harnessing Creativity in the Elementary Classroom
Look through the door of one classroom and you might see the students hunched over, not engaged, even frowning. Look through the door of another classroom, and you might see a room full of lively students, eager, engaged and participating. What is the second teacher doing that the first one isn't? He or she is using creativity in that classroom.16.5kBuilding Staff Rapport With Flash Lessons
A hands-on administrator asks teachers to become students for a class period and, at his prompting, model trust, academic risk taking, and camaraderie.10.6kNew Teachers: Lesson and Curriculum Planning
A collection of curriculum-planning tips, guidance, and other resources to help new teachers plan effective activities, lessons, and units.9kHow Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, and Relationships
<p>In the first of five posts about the film "Inside Out," Lori Desautels offers strategies to help explore how joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust can help students.</p> <br> 9.6k