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Use these simple Trashketball rules to set up teams, score correct answers, rotate shooters, and turn any subject review into an active classroom game.
Read Trashketball Rules: How to Play in Your Classroom
This 13 Colonies gallery walk gets students moving, reading, and comparing the history, geography, founding, and regions of all thirteen colonies.
Read 13 Colonies Gallery Walk: An Engaging Colonial America Activity
Try this engaging Code of Hammurabi activity where students investigate ancient case files, identify broken laws, and determine Babylonian punishments.
Read Code of Hammurabi Activity: Crack the Ancient Case Files
An open thank-you letter to veteran teachers whose experience, mentorship, wisdom, and steady presence shape students, colleagues, and schools.
Read Dear Veteran Teacher: Thank You
Get a free scientific method activity for middle schoolers, plus five engaging ways to teach hypotheses, variables, investigations, and evidence in grades 4-8.
Read Free Scientific Method Activity for Middle Schoolers
Explore engineering and design process activities for middle schoolers, including six STEM challenges, real-world problems, and a gallery walk for grades 4-8.
Read Engineering & Design Process Activities for Middle Schoolers
Try six engaging 13 Colonies activities for 4th grade, including region sorts, historical writing, town meetings, and a free choice board.
Read 6 Engaging 13 Colonies Activities for 4th Grade
Try seven engaging beginning-of-the-year map skills activities that review directions, map types, legends, coordinates, and geography routines.
Read 7 Engaging Beginning-of-the-Year Map Skills Activities
Simple ways to display Tennessee fourth-grade ELA, math, science, and social studies standards with student-friendly learning targets all year.
Read Tennessee 4th Grade Standards and Learning Targets Made Simple
Teach the Neolithic Era in 6th grade with five engaging activities about hunter-gatherers, Stone Age tools, artifacts, early farmers, and human adaptation.
Read 5 Neolithic Era Activities for 6th Grade