Learning Out Loud

Classroom transformations make learning engaging and memorable. Get your students excited about math with the Gingerbread Fixer Upper budgeting activity. Select your grade level and give your students a project based learning experience. Can they stay within budget and use their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills to transform the Gingy's home into the gingerbread house of their dreams? The classroom transformation kit includes table numbers, tickets, and everything you need to make

This bundle includes the Thanksgiving Narrative writing as well as the Editable Thanksgiving Turkey Math Practice. Bring in holiday fun to writing and math practice this November. The Turkey Narrative has a been a real winner in my classroom. Students develop a plot and character through this multi-day writing activity. Extend the turkey festivities into other areas such as math with the editable turkey craftivity. You decide the content and students will practice skills while putting togethe

Deciding which operation to use in a word problem can be a challenge. It's not just about tuning into KEY words, but also being able to understand the context of the problem. In this editable activity, you and your students can examine math operation words that YOU are encountering in your learning. Whereas this master was made for fifth grade with fraction problems in mind, it works for any grade level. Just edit it to meet your needs. Included is: -Editable student direction slide. -Editable

Are you using STEM in your classroom? Do have some amazing ideas, but want your students to focus on the engineering and design process while doing so? These STEM Think Sheets follow the engineering and design process and walk your students through a more reflective process while they are doing STEM activities in class. There are three versions (without lines, with lines, with smaller lines) that can be used for ANY STEM activity in your classroom. Help your students think like engineers as they

Wanting to increase math discussion in your classroom? Whether working in whole group, small group, or individually, asking challenging questions that encourage our students to struggle and explain their thinking will improve their math reasoning skills and competency in math discourse. These 28 cards can be used as you facilitate discussion, either from you or by distributing the cards to students so they can ask questions of their peers about their work. You can also hand them out to small gr