Taking it Offline

Digital Activities in Secondary Math

Hi everyone!  Back in September, I started playing around with recreating several of my activities in Google slides so students.  This way, students could have the same experience, but in a digital form!  So many schools are going paperless and transitioning to more of a digital classroom, so I know there

Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

“Love Light” DIY Candle Craft

To make your own Love Light you will need, tissue paper, scissors, Elmer’s glue, a plate, and one up-cycled glass jar or cup. After cutting out the red hearts, cut the pink tissue paper into strips that you will use to wrap the jar. When all of your paper is

Coloring Sheets

Math Minute: Oliver Owl Loves Hundredths (Grid of 100)

Today’s Math Minute Video features Oliver Owl. He likes fractions, but he wants to turn all the fractions that he sees into hundredths. Watch this video and then download some printable coloring grids. You can hold your fraction and the grid of 100 up to a window to see what

Fun Math

Operations with Scientific Notation and “LARS”

Operations with scientific notation appears to be a simple topic on the surface, however, students get easily confused when manipulating the exponent in order to make computations.   I came up with the acronym “LARS” to help students remember how changing the exponent affects the direction the decimal will move.  “LARS”

Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

Line: Elements of Design for Kids

Line as a Design Element + Upcycled Art Project In math, a line is always solid and straight and a line always goes on and on in both directions. Artistic lines are different — they can be straight, bent, dashed, and have a cool paint brush  texture to them. They don’t have to go on and on

Sign Language For Kids

Finger Spelling Fun

We asked the adults on Facebook what fingerspelling printables they wanted to see. We were happy to get a few responses! So here are the names that you requested. Thank you for participating! If you missed out on the fun, check out these Cut & Paste ASL Letters to make

Critical Thinking
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Deductive Versus Inductive Reasoning

Reasoning can be an effective way to convince someone. You probably reason with others every day. For example, you may have to persuade your brother to share the last few sips of his strawberry milkshake. Two kinds of reasoning, deductive and inductive, illustrate why some methods of persuasion are more