End of the Year Game

Are your textbooks collected and your gradebook closed? Are you looking for something, anything, to get you through the last couple of days of school?

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Countdown to STAAR

I was fortunate enough to work with an 8th grade team recently planning a two week STAAR review.  After analyzing data from the STAAR and

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Writing Your Own DBQ

     Most Secondary Social Studies teachers recognize the importance of using Document Based Questions in their classroom – however writing an entire DBQ can

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Artifact Introduction

The first day of school can be overwhelming and exhausting – you are getting to know your kids, and your kids are getting to know

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Famous Person’s Desk

This is a fun and different strategy for a biography – have your students’ recreate a famous person’s desk. What would they find on Abraham

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