Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Surprise! Four big thoughts on all of this… 1. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Note the huge spike in January 2022...
Microsoft Forms recently got some new features that are helpful for teachers. One of those new features is the ability to set a time limit for completing a quiz once it has been started. This is different than the setting to automatically close a form...
Over the years I’ve made more than 1,000 videos for my YouTube channel and nearly as many for students in my classrooms. Here are five tips that I’ve figured out along the way. Keep it short and sweet.Two five minute videos are better than...
Traditionally completed on rods with wooden discs, this one's with leaves!Traditionally completed on rods with wooden discs, this one's with leaves!Maths Outdoors, Forest School maths, Forest School problem solving, leaves, logic, maths, maths activities, Tower of Hanoi, woodlandRead More...
If you watched the video that I published on Wednesday you can hear me beginning to lose my voice. That's because like everyone else in my house and seemingly everyone in my neighborhood, I had a cold last week. Thankfully, none of us had COVID-19....
Halloween is just eight days away. If you're an elementary school teacher, you might be planning to do some trick o' treating safety reviews with your students. Playing Kahoot games is a fun way to review almost anything including Halloween safety. That's why a few years ago...
Logic, thinking and strategy activity for learning with leaves.Logic, thinking and strategy activity for learning with leaves.Maths Outdoors, leaves, logic, maths, maths activities, nature, nature maths, outdoor learning, woodlandRead More...
Good morning from Maine where the sun is rising and it's a brisk 29F as I sip my dark roast coffee. It was a busy week here my little part of the world. We had two birthdays in my house, we all fought off little...
Halloween is a little more than a week away. It is during the next week that a lot of students will be introduced to the work of Edgar Allan Poe. A TED-Ed lesson examines what made Poe's macabre works timeless classics. In Why Should You Read...
Leaves and maths outdoors for all ye landlubbers...
