This is a great resource to allow students to work at their own pace. It reinforces quick recall of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. It is great for both elementary and middle school students.
Students create an Amazing Race challenge for another class. Students are put into production groups to create a show segment for The Amazing Race.Each group represents the different United States regions, investigates the various types of geographical regions, creates a digital poster or poster board presentation to be posted on classroom wiki for study reference, include an "artifact" (e.g. geographic tools/ technologies, stories, songs, and pictures) to further describe their specific region. As a class, students will present their final product and regional artifacts to another class as an Amazing Race challenge.
$10 app but so worth it. This gradebook is really awesome and helpful. It's the only one I have found that lets you exempt grades for absences, etc. And if you're technologically challenged like me, it is very user friendly! I thought I would share it with you guys!
This site provides specific tactics to help alleviate the attention-deficit woes of your most inattentive students. Typical suggestions include decreasing the length of your lessons and structuring some guided daydreaming time.