Six Women Who Changed Science

These minimalistic posters, from Hydrogene Portfolio, could be good “hooks” for your students.  They could: research the women on the posters, try to find more women to add to the set and develop similar posters, discuss why there is not a set of six men who changed science (or, is there?), create sets of posters … Read more

Misunderstood Monsters

UPDATE 10/13/2021: You can now see an updated list of all of the Halloween/October resources I’ve collected by visiting this Wakelet! A few weeks ago, I posted about a charming video called “Monsterbox“.  I offered some ideas for using it in the classroom, but I was not very specific.  One of my colleagues sent me … Read more

Not Just Child’s Play

If you are an elementary school teacher who loves to differentiate, I highly recommend “Not Just Child’s Play”.  Written by a teacher of gifted Kindergarten students, the posts in this blog always inspire me to keep my expectations high with my own gifted students.  This post, on Multiple Perspectives (one of Dr. Sandra Kaplan’s Depth … Read more

The Lorax

Universal Pictures will be releasing a new movie production of The Lorax on March 2nd.  With that in mind, I have created some differentiated tasks based on Dr. Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity icons.  This free resource is now available at Teachers Pay Teachers.  I also have a Multiple Intelligences packet available based on The … Read more