I am about to share 10 task card games that I have used to engage students successfully – who doesn’t love FREE classroom activities explained in detail?!!! But first, let’s answer the obvious in case you aren’t familiar: just what are task cards exactly? Task cards are just what they sound like they are – […]
Task Cards: 8 Easy Ways to Use Them in your classroom
Task cards are everywhere in education – at all levels – and for good reason! Task cards are simply questions/problems that can be printed, cut out, and used for all kinds of classroom activities. I’ve named the task cards “I Can” Activity Questions just to make it more obvious what the content of my task cards are, […]
How to Design Foldables using Microsoft Word
Once you begin using interactive student notebooks in your classroom, you will eventually want to start making your own foldables. Now, a lot of teachers simply show students how to fold the paper and then the students write everything, even tab titles, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, I never felt like I had enough […]
Why Whiteboards?
“If I had to choose between an interactive white board and a classroom set of dry erase boards… I’d choose the low-tech whiteboards.” – TeachHUB Blogger Laura Candler Whiteboards are the BOMB in a high school mathematics classroom. In fact, when I was student teaching for a district without them, I bought some really flimsy plastic ones. […]
How to Grade Interactive Student Notebooks (without pulling your hair out)
One question I get a lot when I bring up interactive student notebooks is “I have 100+ students, how will I find time to grade all these notebooks?” This is a tough question for a lot of teachers. We feel guilty sometimes for asking how much TIME we have to spend doing something new (like ISNs) when we […]