Will Ogle

Can’t teach Halloween in your classroom? Think again! Here’s a week long reading unit plan designed for 4th-8th graders that will begin as a simple common core short story/poetry lesson, but will end as the literal transformation of your classroom into the tranquil village of Sleepy Hallow, home of the Headless Horsemen. This unit comes complete with 5 classic works in American Literature including The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt

Flash Card Football only takes 10 minutes of class time per week. Yet it will develop Vocabulary Mastery in nearly every student because they are so motivated by this academic game! Build vocabulary and terminology utilizing this academic game! Students in your class will represent teams from the NFL. Students will play flashcard football against each other following the NFL schedule. For just ten minutes every Friday afternoon, students ask each other in rapid fire fashion, vocabulary qu

My description below applies for all of my Teaching Social Studies through Classroom Management flipcharts. Each has a separate theme entirely, but they all function within the classroom the same way. If you are a teacher who does not have time to fit Social Studies into your curriculum, this can help you. It's something simple I've been doing in my class for years and it works like a charm. Rather than spending a full 30-40 minute class period teaching Social Studies, I give my students