by admin | Nov 18, 2019 | Classroom, Google, Intermediate
5 Hidden Elements of Google Classroom As with any platform, there are things to understand that are not a button to click on. Knowing how Google Classroom works with Google Drive and how it interacts with students can help you to better use Classroom. Join an online...
by admin | Oct 15, 2019 | Google, Intermediate, Sheets
My good friend Christine Pinto was telling me she was having her Kindergartners do some pumpkin activities this week in anticipation of going to a pumpkin patch. I thought alicekeeler.com/pixelart would be a fun way for kids to make a pumpkin since after all, the...
by admin | Oct 13, 2019 | Intermediate, Lesson Design, National Geographic
National Geographic for Teachers I Love Real Data!!! My typical joke is “Who is Bob and why is he carrying 40 watermelons?” As a math teacher pretty much the entire textbook is “who cares?” it’s hard to engage students with contrived word...
by admin | Oct 11, 2019 | EdTech Tool, Intermediate
Using Remove.bg Guest Post by Marcia Carrillo Remove.bg is an online tool used to remove the background of a picture in seconds. The background is replaced by transparency, which allows you to insert the image into a new background. Being a skeptic, I took several...
by admin | Oct 7, 2019 | Gamification, Google, Intermediate, Slides, templates
Play the Water Bottle Flipping Game I am a day late and a dollar short on this one. Water bottle flipping is no longer the in thing, but I suspect some students would enjoy the game anyway. Divide the class into 2 teams. Each team gets a water bottle. Each person in...
by admin | Oct 5, 2019 | Classroom, Google, Intermediate, Lesson Design, Slides, templates
ELA Lesson: Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration The art of the lesson plan is knowing your students and creating an engaging lesson for the students you actually teach. This is the problem with pre-made lessons from the publisher, they don’t know your students. An...