8 Awesome websites for classroom games
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Games, games, games
Why use games? Games in the classroom have led to the sprouting of a whole new educational research field over the l...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #40 - Use technology to help drive engagement with spreadsheets!
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Can you remember the first time that you had a play around with Excel? I can’t really, but I do recall a time when I totally geeked out while playing with the formula functions in it. Well, I have a year 12 Science In Practice (SIP) class wh...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy # 38 - How do I stop the kids' annoying fidgeting?
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Does continuous pen clicking/tapping drive you batty?
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It was the last period of the day and I had a class of mainly boys. The fidgeting was at an all-time high, as the class were supposed to go through their field booklets and source the answers for any questions that were blank. Thankfully I was in the Scien...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #36 - What to do when your classroom is out of control
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A change is as good as a holiday!
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Sometimes, you are faced with a whole classroom of students who have a mental block & as a result, struggle to focus & ...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy # 35 - Code in the classroom
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Itchy? Get into Scratch!
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If you have any tech savvy or particularly inquisitive students in your class, set them a homework challenge that is fun - Scratch.
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy # 31 - How to make your lesson fun
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Make it fun (and they inadvertently learn!)
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Want to make sure everyone knows how to find their way around any textbook? Play I AM THE BEST! Ensure all students have the same textbook closed on the desk, with their hands on their heads. Tell them that they need to find one of the word...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #28 - How to improve your memory
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Make it memorable!
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Build a memory palace - it links the knowledge to a physical act or place. We were learning about 2-way tables in Yr 8 maths today & I took my kids (with their pen and a book, through the rain!) to the underc...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #26 - How to warm up your brain
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Warm up their brains!
If you need students to be participating, giving feedback or working in groups, start with a brainstorm warm up. This gets the kids thinking in a fun way & they'll be pretty keen to share their answers. Once their brain is activated, you'll have mo...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #21 - The kid's brains have logged out?
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The kid's brains have logged out?
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Get them moving! Take them outside & play a game. 'Bump' (click on the link) is one of my favourites.
Read Full Post »Tip #19 - Sit quietly after the exam?
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How to get the students to sit quietly after they've finished the exam?
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Give them something to do! Have a fun/interesting activity to do like completing a maze, doing a word find, even just colouring in (you'll be surprised - even the senior students dig this!). Have the ...
Read Full Post »Tip #18 - Start with a brain challenge!
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Start with a brain challenge.
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Kids love challenges! Rebus puzzles are word pictures that make a common saying. Start the lesson by showing a few of these & get the students to try to figure out what the saying is. You join in & try to work them out too and they'll ...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #10 - Start with a game, Maths in the Mud
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Start the lesson with a game
One of my favourite teaching strategies - games! How to win friends and influence students 101 - play 'Maths in the mud'. It's just a game of Stuck in the mud, but to become unstuck, you stand with your hands on your head & you have 3-...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #5 - Make it a game!
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Make it a game!
Whatever you are teaching, can it be made into a game? Try boardgame/pictionary/physical modelling. Make it fun & you will have much less behaviour to deal with!
Teaching Strategy #3 Writing notes is boring while sitting in one place!
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Writing notes is BORING while sitting in one place!
Test out this teaching strategy - Print out the notes, number the points & stick them around the room. Put them in interesting places to get them to find them all (like on the ceiling!) - make learning a treasure hunt! Who doesn't like treas...
Read Full Post »Teaching Strategy #1- How do you get the kids to sit down long enough to actually teach them something?
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How do you get the kids to sit down long enough to actually teach them something?
Peel the kids off the walls and start with a game! Try starting the lesson with a competition like Left Vs Right. Let them play for 'free time' (time to pack their books in their bag & leave exactly on the bel...
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