Art for Kids: Fun Art Projects

The Rule of Thirds: A Gridded Guide

The Rule of Thirds is a compositional guideline to use when taking photographs, shooting a video, creating artwork or designing graphics. To apply the rule, you divide the scene into nine equal squares, drawing three evenly spaced horizontal lines and three evenly spaced vertical lines to form a grid. According

Animal Cell
PDF handout animal-cell-label-with-answer-key

Animal Cell – Handout

Can you label and color these important parts of the animal cell? NUCLEUS  control center for cell (cell growth, cell metabolism, cell reproduction) NUCLEOLUS  synthesizes  rRNA RIBOSOMES  the site of protein building, this is where translation takes place (mRNA in language of nucleic acids is translated into the language of

Sign Language For Kids

ABC Signs M (Sign Language for Kids)

Want to learn some fun ASL signs? The full ABC Signs program incorporates over 120 real ASL signs into fun and catchy rhymes; learn 5 in this free sign language video for kids: The ASL sign for M The ASL sign for monkey The ASL sign for moose The ASL

Fun Math

Substitution Method for Systems of Equations: aka “the blob”

I love teaching systems of equations, like seriously LOVE it!  I always teach it right after the linear equations unit, and it’s the perfect transition from graphing one line, to graphing two.   Students catch on right away and think, “this unit is going to be easy!” Then…. we hit

Sign Language For Kids

ASL 4 Kids: ABC Signs Y (Video & Handout)

Learn some fun ‘Y’ words with Jade! The full ABC Signs program incorporates over 120 real American Sign Language signs into fun and catchy rhymes; learn 5 in this free sign language video for kids: The ASL sign for Y The ASL sign for yellow The ASL sign for yelled

Fun Math

Make Your Own Math Drills with “Find and Replace”

If you like arithmetic drills, here’s a way that you and your child can create a lot of different worksheets. Just create your worksheet in Word and then use Find and Replace to let Word change all the math questions around automatically. I am attaching 2 examples that you can

Fun Math

Fingerpaint Multiplication – Count By Twos Threes or Fours

We recently shared an article on Facebook that was titled Dreading Math Can cause Real Pain. As you’ve probably noticed, we like to share a lot of fun math content. In the spirit of that tradition, we are going to post a series of Fingerpaint Multiplication handouts. Even a very

Fun Math

Spicing up the Secondary Math Classroom: #2 – Scavenger Hunts!

This is the second post in a series  I created called “Spicing up the Secondary Classroom.”  This post’s focus is Scavenger Hunts!  I went to a conference four years ago and listened to a speaker taught about a a similar activity in which students solved problems in loop.  I was totally intrigued