As a teacher, needing to miss a day requires a lot of up-front planning. For the days that you have to unexpectedly be out, having a simple emergency sub binder is a great way to make sure your sub has what they need, and you know that the students will continue to learn while you […]
Sub Plans
7 Tips for Science Emergency Sub Plans
Teacher sick days and mental health days are actually more work than actually going in. Writing sub plans, and having emergency sub plans that work, can be stressful and more exhausting than teaching with the flu. Let’s change that! Today, right here, let’s go through 5 tips to make emergency sub plans that will last […]
How a Wonder Wall will Encourage Every Student to Think Like a Scientist
Whatever happened to the curious students? You know, the ones that would ask all the “why’s” and “how’s” and always wanted to know more and more? When did they grow out of that toddler like wonder into the student robots that we see today?
Students have the answers at their fingertips for almost any question they want to ask, but are they asking the right ones? We want to change their mindset to think more like a scientist, to think more like an engineer, to think more like someone who is invested in the world around them.