For many of us, at least in the United States, another school year is over. Even as we eagerly embark on our rejuvenation journeys for the summer, you might be thinking, as I am, of new ideas for the next school year. This week, I would like to share some of the improvements I hope … Read more
This is a neat poster (created with Smore) from Huffman ISD that gives some ideas for shaking things up a bit in the classroom. Though the poster was designed to help teachers to prepare their students for the STAAR test (Texas’ statewide assessment), the activities can really be used with any topic, and to support … Read more
I know this is a topic that is getting a bit repetitious on my blog, but I really can’t emphasize enough how important I think it is that we offer programming to our students at an early age. This article from MindShift, explains how learning programming has far-reaching effects, and should not be reserved for … Read more
When I saw this idea on “Learning to the Core“, I thought it would make a great activity for the end of the school year. Basically, your students create a Wordle, and then it is made into an online jigsaw puzzle for them to solve. Depending on the ability of your students, the Wordles could: … Read more
For Fun Friday this week, I thought I would share a few Escher posts I recently ran across. View this interactive panoramic Tribute to Escher in Out of this World.
(Full disclosure, I have written some of the reviews of apps on the site – Spatial Reasoning for elementary and Logic and Creative Problem Solving for middle school.) appoLearning is a relatively new guy on the block when it comes to educational app reviews. The site comes from the developers of appolicious. They recognized the … Read more