Giving students some clever math problems that tie-in a "real world" situation or topic can go a long way toward helping them see how math skills are skills they'll use for a lifetime. The following three websites all provide good math challenges to use with...
[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning, I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. We then followed up those interviews with...
Google has a lot of help search tools if you know how to access them and use them. Just opening the advanced search menu often shows students a new world of search refinement possibilities. However, Google also has a couple of search options that sometimes...
If you are interested in nature-based practice, then get a copy of this book! It's THE outdoor book of 2021.If you are interested in nature-based practice, then get a copy of this book! It's THE outdoor book of 2021.Early Years Outdoors, Health & Wellbeing, Nature...
If you are interested in nature-based practice, then get a copy of this book! It's THE outdoor book of 2021.If you are interested in nature-based practice, then get a copy of this book! It's THE outdoor book of 2021.Early Years Outdoors, Health & Wellbeing, Nature...
This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Meagan Kimm. What is something that teachers don’t have enough of? Time? Money? Support? Yes, to all the above, but today’s topic is about something else we are often lacking … space. Teaching comes with a lot of stuff....
Last week TED-Ed published a new video lesson titled Why Can't Governments Print an Unlimited Amount of Money? The purpose of the video is to explain how governments, particularly the United States federal government, were able to spend trillions of dollars on COVID-19 economic relief programs...
Yesterday morning I wrote about the challenge of getting students to use resources like academic databases and digital archives in their research. This morning I received an email from a reader who asked if I could share an example or ideas of how to encourage...
GitMind is a mind mapping tool that offers some excellent features for teachers and students. GitMind offers more than one hundred templates for teachers and students to use and modify. Some of the templates you'll find in the gallery include essay structure, timelines, book reviews,...
This morning Jeff Bezos is blasting into space on a new rocket designed by his company, Blue Origin. The BBC has a succinct overview of how the rocket is designed to work. For a kid-friendly explanation of how rockets work, turn to SciShow Kids. Last...
