Engaging students in learning is a can be a daunting task. Knowing what to teach is only half the battle. The real work comes with keeping the learning fun and helping students to WANT to learn. Sometimes the difference between doing the work and not doing it is simply in the materials you use. Tapping into your students' interests can help. A great example of this is using cars. What was once only a toy, has become a learning tool that is used every day in my class. And the best part is, ... VIEW POST
Learning With Cars
Stress-Free At Home Activities Using Easter Materials And A Freebie
If you're like me, you're looking for ways to keep learning fun and engaging while your students are distance learning at home. Since I'm sharing these ideas with my own students and their families, I thought I share them with you all as well. Maybe you can pass this post on to your students for some ideas of ways they can keep learning hands-on and use what they have readily available and leftover from Easter. These pictures are from past years in my classroom, so if they are activities ... VIEW POST
Extracting PDF pages and Converting Documents for Distance Learning
I have had a multitude of questions from readers this week about how they can extract specific pages from one of my PDFs to use for online learning. I'm hoping I can answer a few of those questions here. Extracting Pages From a PDF File. I know that you are all used to being able to just print off the documents you need at school, right? But what should you do when you only want to use one page from a document to send to students. How can you extract just that one page? Unfortunately, ... VIEW POST
