When the weather outside is frightful, the right activity can transform students’ pent-up energy into laughter, movement, and ...
Sharie Murray noticed the benefits of getting kids moving during the pandemic. The K-3 special education teacher and her colleagues at North Elementary School in Birch Run, Mich., started to use short ...
Physical activity breaks in the classroom can help ramp up student fitness and increase attention—or turn into a chaotic hassle that teachers work to avoid. Fewer than 9 percent of school-age children ...
Group of tired school kids feeling bored while sitting in the classroom during the lecture. [W]hat is often overlooked is that some of the most transformative benefits of physical activity happen in ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Jodi Picoult talked about her childhood, family life, and educational background. She explained how she began her writing career. This lesson ...
L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This was a 1912 film on the construction of the Panama Canal. In this lesson, students watch a video clip from C-SPAN's Reel America series, which ...
Monkey in My Chair is a program developed for children fighting cancer. During chemo, surgery, and other treatments, the kids tend to miss a lot of classroom time. Heidi Feyerherm-Smith developed the ...
Last April, I was a month out from the end of the spring semester when I read in The Chronicle about the “stunning’ level of student disconnection.” At the time, I was teaching three in-person courses ...