Let me start by saying I am a believer of intrinsic motivation. I always dream of students working for knowledge’s sake. However, after many experiments year after year, I found that kids respond to classroom rewards well and sometimes you...
Introduction Welcome to Forms of Government Systems Web Quest! During this web quest, you will be able to: complete a worksheet as you learn about different types government around the world through research using technology understand the pros and cons of...
This Boggle vocabulary game is based off of the popular family game in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. The purpose of the game is to discover as many words as possible within a jumbled...
Here are some fun Christmas classroom activity ideas that you can use to add a bit of holiday cheer and excitement before that much awaited winter break!...
Can students find the safe zone before it’s too late? Or will zombies take over the world? Download this super engaging and fun conversation game now! File type: pptx ALSO TRY: FUNNY BRAIN TEASERS...
In this Halloween Creative Story writing activity, I prepare 10 of each of the following elements of a story: character, time, place and situation. I have my students select 4 numbers (from 1 to 10) which corresponds to an item...
Here’s a quick Halloween activity based off a Mexican holiday called Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. I know these are two different holidays but this activity really set the atmosphere for the Halloween season in my...
This deserted island survival activity is based off the Lost at Sea team building game in relation to the book Robinson Crusoe in my literature class....
Puzzle Maker – This is a PowerPoint presentation that you can use if you decide to let your students (individual or groups) create puzzles themselves for their classmates to solve. You can assign each group their task (word categories) and...
As told by Ben Greensmith Moving to Logroño to teach was a bad idea: nothing went to plan and it was no fairy tale story of teaching English in Spain. My experience may serve as a cautionary tale for others...
In this simple game, students will guess the mystery word based on two or three pictures. The pictures are the clue to the puzzle so the students must be able to identify them first, then combine the words to get...
