When teachers are developing a lesson, there is always a focus on ways to make the content engaging for students. When students enjoy the content and can relate to it, they are excited to be learning and naturally begin to remember the content. By doing this, students are not having to memorize information! A great way to teach social justice is through a favorite of students among all-ages- Harry Potter! From the book series to the movies, students quickly became ... Read More
The Power of One: Teaching Social Justice in Upper Elementary School
A common goal of teachers is to develop lessons that students not only enjoy but remember in future years. A lesson that students remember throughout school, tell their family about, quote in a graduation speech, and impacts them beyond high school. These lessons begin as soon as students enter elementary school. A unit that teachers can create life-changing lessons in involves teaching students what social justice is. Whether you have directly seen a focus on social ... Read More
How to make distance learning work?
I don’t know about you but I am nervous about heading back to school. All the uncertainly is nerve-wracking. Will I be teaching online? Will I be at home? Will I be in school? How can I keep a mask on all day and prevent getting sick? How can we socially distance in a class above 25 students? Do I have to change the way I teach with group work and project-based learning? Will my son be in school? How are we going to manage to ... Read More
What is a Q and A Debate in High School?
“F. Scott Fitzgerald” once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Still serves as the best definition to describe the word “debate” in intellectual terms. “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson- Debate is a valuable activity for students of all ... Read More
Dollar Deals -All lessons $1!!!
Current Event Assignment: This is a two-page current event assignment. Students have to report on the same topic from a left-leaning news source and a right-leaning news source.Gender Project (four days): It includes a toy Websearch, a toy show and tell project with a rubric, and a gender music analysis project with a rubric. Personal Finance Quizzes: Assess your students with these five digital personal finance quizzes: money, budgeting, credit, banking, insurance, and ... Read More
Are you using Socrative? An engaging tool to quiz the student’s understanding.
What is Socrative program? Socrative is a determinative assessment tool that helps teachers and learners to evaluate understanding and progress in real-time in class through the use of games, queries, and reflection inquiries. How does it work? Socrative is accessed via website or app, with separate apps for teachers and students. The tool is very easy to use. The teacher’s home page is clean, showing the six available features, most notably Quiz, Quick Question ... Read More
