Something Different to Try

There are over 300 Old Testament prophecies concerning the birth and life of Jesus on Earth. In each box is scripture for the Old Testament prophecy and its New Testament fulfillment. Look up each set of verses and write the prophecy’s promise on the lines. There is a regular version (Tic-Tac-Toe-Pro) and an easier version (Tic-Tac-Toe Junior). Answer keys are included. Try to get 3 answers in a row and then maybe a full card!

Tired of the old “What I Did on My Vacation” essay? Learn more about your new students through their choices on this menu study than an essay will ever tell you. Who are your artists and leaders? Who prefers to express learning through poetry or music or math? Who are your problem solvers and designers? Using activities based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Creative Productive Thinking, and Sandra Kaplan’s Depth and Complexity icons, menu studies allow for d

Try sharing the Christmas story from Luke 2 in a different way. Perhaps a pass-it-sequence story telling time or from the point of view of personified characters of the story. A Hand-y Chart helps students use sensory processing to think about the story in terms of another viewpoint. What might the sheep have smelled, tasted, seen, heard? What if the manger told the story? Or a little snake that was hiding in the rocks of the stable cave? It's something different to try.

Research has shown that some students often already have mastered 35-65% of the year’s curriculum when they walk into your classroom on day one. Then there are those students who haven’t even mastered even 65% of last year’s curriculum. What to do? What to do? Free up time for those needier students by compacting the curriculum for those who already know it. Let them prove it to you. Through formal or informal pre-testing for the day, the week, or the unit, find those who already “kno