Classroom Consequences: Logical Ideas That Teach
When a student breaks a rule, the question every teacher faces in the moment is what happens next. The best classroom consequences are not about making a student feel bad….
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When a student breaks a rule, the question every teacher faces in the moment is what happens next. The best classroom consequences are not about making a student feel bad….
Most students meet fractions as pieces of a pizza or a chocolate bar, so the first time they see a fraction sitting on a number line, it throws them. Suddenly,…
A student reads, “The path was so arduous that the hikers had to stop and rest,” and even without knowing the word arduous, they can figure out that it means…
A student who gets stuck on unhelpful is not really stuck. Show them that it is un plus help plus ful, and the meaning falls right out: not full of…
Hand a student a real flower and a hand lens, and something clicks that a textbook picture never quite manages. Suddenly, the parts of a flower are not vocabulary words to memorize;…
Chemistry sounds like something that belongs in a high school lab with goggles and beakers, but some of the best chemistry experiments for kids use nothing more than baking soda,…
Search for fall activities, and you will drown in pumpkin crafts meant for kindergarten. Finding pumpkin activities for upper elementary that actually challenge 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders is much…
Your students can define a prefix on a worksheet, but the real test comes when they hit a long, unfamiliar word in the middle of a science article and have…
Stir salt into a glass of water, and it seems to disappear. Stir sand into water, and it just sits there. Both are mixtures, but only one is a solution,…
When students are learning about matter, nothing lands better than watching a change happen in front of them. But it helps to have a bank of clear examples of physical…
A student reads the word unbreakable and stops cold. But break it into un, break, and able, and the meaning falls right out: not able to be broken. That move,…
A puppy is not born knowing how to sit on command, and a child is not born knowing how to ride a bike. Both are learned behavior examples, actions that…
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