When teachers revisit earlier lessons in small, structured ways, students feel more confident on assessments—and retain the ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Think of your lesson as a story and your lesson plan as its script. And remember that a good plan considers the people involved in the lesson, not just the activities Lesson plans are useful not just ...

Seals are highly adapted marine mammals with unique physical characteristics allowing them to thrive and navigate on both ...

Research consistently shows that teacher effectiveness and satisfaction with our work increases when we are able to engage in deep and meaningful collaboration. Earlier this month I wrote about one ...

1) Ask students to brainstorm ways that we could find out about people, places and events that took place a long time ago. Write down their responses on a large sheet of paper, whiteboard or ...

STEM is more than just a grouping of subject areas. It is a movement to develop the deep mathematical and scientific underpinnings students need to be competitive in the 21st-century workforce. But ...

We have organized our activities and lesson plans by topic and identified their corresponding programs. We noted if they work best as a pre-visit, post-visit activities, or stand-alone lesson plan.

1) On the whiteboard or chalkboard, write the word “immigrant.” Ask your students to brainstorm a definition for the word, and jot down their ideas. Ask your students to share their ideas on what ...