Good morning from Maine where it's a brisk 47F. It feels like a classic early fall morning in Northern New England. Later it'll warm up a bit and be perfect for riding bikes and enjoying the long weekend. I hope that you have a great...
SciShow Kids recently published an updated video about a "classic" science experiment. That experiment is dropping Mentos candies into a bottle of soda pop. But before doing that and explaining what happens, the video briefly explains how beverages are carbonated and why the bubbles stick...
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Stanford History Education Group offers lots of great resources for history teachers. They're hosting a couple of free webinars next week including one designed to help you help your students learn to read like a historian. If you can't make it to the webinar or...
It's September and here in Maine the leaves on some of the maple trees are already starting to change color. This is my favorite time of year! And it's time that once again I share my favorite fall video project. The project is to create...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in August 2022… The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (sci fi) The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang (fantasy) The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King (fantasy) Starman’s Saga, Colin Alexander (sci fi) Renegade, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Walpurgis III, Mike Resnick (sci fi) The...
Disclosure: Quizalize is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com.Quizalize is a great teaching tool that I’ve used and written about since 2015 when it differentiated itself from the market by being the first classroom quiz game tool that offered an option to have your students play your...
A couple of days ago I hosted a webinar for tech coaches. In the webinar I mentioned that teaching teachers just a couple of quick search refinement tips that they can pass on to students can help them stop feeling like their students are going...
Earlier this week Google added a new emoji option into Google Docs. The new option enables you to type @ followed by an emotion to add an emoji into a sentence in your Google Documents. For example, you can type "@smile" to generate a list...
The sun has set on the last day of August. Nearly every school in my area is now back in session. And those few that aren't in session will be next week. So while calendar says that autumn doesn't start for a few more weeks,...
