"Humor, goofiness, joy, fun — these were actually vital to developing a creative classroom culture. When I taught middle school, we had a wordplay wall at the back with ridiculously bad dad jokes (things like “fire drill” and “slow jams” and “graduated cylinder”). We had Easter Eggs hidden throughout the classroom. We had our own version of a Rick Roll. If someone asked you to “share a link,” you had to “Cher a link” instead, sending them to a music video from Cher. "

This excellent resource includes videos, and some reading. It's very engaging - and fun! It's all about bringing joy to your classroom - which happens to spark community, creativity and foster risk taking! Win win win!

Grades 1, 2 and 3 inferencing text, creating questions, connecting text to self, text and world. Attached is the guide.

CoordiKids is happy to offer the series of downloadable tools for teachers: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum for teaching self-regulation to children.

How Do You Feel? is a curriculum designed for elementary school teachers. The kit is geared toward helping children ranging in ages from 4-12.

What’s Included: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum from CoordiKids
- The “How Do You Feel?” Chart
- 6 Lesson Plans
- Visual Aids
- Worksheets
- And more!

By clicking on the "Home" tab, you will also find:
- Home Course
- Preschool Course
- Classroom Brain Break Course
- Homeschool Brain Break Course
- Master Classes
- Starter Packs (Sensory Processing and Dyspraxia)

his article by Lee Wantanabe-Crockett examines a series of tips and tricks for fostering classroom discussions.

My action plan is currently focusing on including questions for deeper understanding (Blooms Taxonomy) in both Science and ELA 8. I wanted to also focus on using the 6 Thinking Hats of Debono alongside Blooms Taxonomy question in ELA to guide but not direct discussion on specific topics (Black Negative, Yellow Positive, Blue control, etc.) as well as integrating basic technology into PE games (Heart rate monitors, mileage/stepper counters during activity to measure distance covered, etc.) with a focus on eventually using more in depth tech in PE (QR codes, etc.)

We’ve mentioned already that there’s a lot of money in media and a huge chunk of that money is spent on trying to get you to do something – buy something, vote a certain way, change a behavior. How does advertising work? And what’s the difference between advertising, public relations, and propaganda? We’re going to talk about all that and more today.

In this activity, students will conduct a survey to identify the environmental issues (in their community, their country and the world) for which people are concerned. They will tally and graph the results. Also, students will discuss how surveys are important when engineers make decisions about environmental issues.

In this activity, students will learn to identify different opinions related to an issue as well as the things (information, values and beliefs) that influence those opinions. They will use an opinion spectrum to analyze the range of opinions in their classroom on environmental issues and understand how these spectrums can be valuable to engineering design.

"Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people."

Students use critical literacy skills to understand the concept of perspective and to then create a diary for an animal they research with a partner.

Students learn that you dont have to raise your voice to raise a point. Writing a persuasive letter to your principal is a great way to get your opinions heard.

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Using an interactive mapping template, students are guided to design an argument for a persuasive essay or debate. After the Persuasion Map is created, it may be printed, emailed or saved.

How can we convince others to agree with us on important issues? In this lesson, students explore relevant environmental issues and gather information to write persuasive essays.

Students apply what they have learned about the engineering design process to a real-life problem that affects them and/or their school. They chose a problem as a group, and then follow the engineering design process to come up with and test their design solution. This activity teaches students how to use the engineering design process while improving something in the school environment that matters to them. By performing each step of the design process, students can experience what it is like to be an engineer.

Students are introduced to a systematic procedure for solving problems through a demonstration and then the application of the method to an everyday activity. The unit project is introduced to provide relevance to subsequent lessons.

Bring PBL to Your Classroom
Project-based learning is a big part of today?s modern learning
environments. It takes students on a cool journey of creativity,
exploration, and true real-world relevance. What does PBL look
like in action in your classroom?
Solution Fluency provides the building blocks for PBL. It?s a
way for students to learn good problem-solving skills and to
become successful with any challenge.
This PBL Ideas Book will help them do exactly that. Inside are
classroom project ideas for years K?12. There are 9 awesome
projects to choose from with choices for primary, middle, and
senior grades. But wait?what if the scenario idea you like isn?t for
your specific grade?
No problem at all. These PBL ideas are customizable and
scalable for any grade level. They?re also cross-curricular in
nature, and can be adapted to other subject areas.
Explore these scenarios and think creatively about how you
can bring them to life for your students

These guides are designed by the Global Digital
Citizen Foundation to help you gain a better
understanding of the 21st Century Fluencies and
how they work.
This guide contains a description of the stages of
Solution Fluency, as well as a perspective on the skills
each stage develops and why they are important for
our students?and everyone?to learn.
We hope this information will help you with the
development of the Fluencies as you work to infuse
them into your students' learning experiences.

Stem Projecst for K-12 Learners
STEM learning takes students on a cool journey of creativity, exploration, and true real-world relevance. Solution Fluency provides the building blocks
for this. It?s a way for students to learn good problem-solving skills and to become successful with any challenge. This STEM Project Ideas Book will
help them do exactly that.
Inside are STEM project ideas for years K?12. There are 12 awesome projects for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to choose from
with choices for primary, middle, and senior grades.
What if a scenario idea you like isn?t for your specific grade? No problem?these lesson ideas are customizable and scalable for any grade
level. They?re also cross-curricular in nature, and can be adapted to other subject areas.
Explore these scenarios and think creatively about how you can bring STEM learning to life for your students