Classrooms 5 Creative Zoom Icebreakers to Get Everyone Involved Whether you're trying to bring a new class together or strengthen the team dynamic in the virtual workplace, engaging icebreaker activities can help everyone feel welcomed, heard, and at home with their new group. Here are 5 creative icebreakers that can be played completely over Zoom.
2020 3 Ways to Make a Bitmoji Without a Phone Especially if you're an elementary teacher, your students might not all have access to phones, so creating their own Bitmojis may not be nearly as easy for them. Here are three ways that your students can safely create a Bitmoji substitute for free & online.
Background 5 Free Zoom Virtual Backgrounds for Students It's important that students feel comfortable maintaining their privacy during Zoom classes. That's what virtual backgrounds are for – your background can be whatever you want it to be. Here are 5 perfect backgrounds for you to use in your Zoom classes.
Education How to Create a Venn Diagram Online (Free Template) Venn Diagrams have always been a great classroom tool to help students compare and contrast. They can be used to identify the similarities between two animal species, characters in a book, or time periods in history. Whatever the subject, Venn diagrams give students...
2020 5 Free Zoom Virtual Backgrounds for Teachers in 2020 As a teacher, there are lots of distinctive, helpful ways to use Zoom's virtual background feature. Here are 5 free, pre-formatted virtual backgrounds for you to download, customize, and add to your Zoom meetings.
Add Text How to Make a Plot Diagram Online For Free In this article, I'm going to show you how to make your own custom plot diagram for free online, and go over the different ways you can have your students fill them out. Plus, I'm including a free, customizable template for you to make your own.
Education How to Make a Frayer Model Online (Free Template) The Frayer Model is an education tool used to help students breakdown complex vocabulary terms. This trusted graphic organizer used in schools around the world can be made entirely online using this free template.
2020 5 Tips for Elementary Teachers in 2020: Remote Learning, E-Learning, and SEL I talked to Denver area 5th grade teacher Adin Becker about his own preparation for remote learning in 2020, materials for virtual classes, and extra efforts to get ready for the unprecedented fall term. Here are some of your biggest priorities for the 2020 classroom.
Education How to Make Educational Videos Like Khan Academy There’s a lot that goes into the Khan Academy formula, so if you want to try it out for yourself, there are some tricks you should learn. Here’s a basic rundown of the 5 main things you should keep in mind.
Education Back to School Inspiration: Making a Creative Classroom Seating Chart When students arrive back at school in the fall, most teachers decide to introduce a seating chart into their classroom, to help govern where each student will sit. For teachers, these seating charts are a great way to organize a classroom, mix students up so that they make new friends...
Creator Spotlight How Rebecca Anderson Uses Videos to Educate the World About Climate Change Rebecca Anderson is the Director of Education for Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), a nonprofit on a mission to educate young people about the science of climate change and empower them to take action.
Education Film a Review of Your Favorite Summer Reading Book Summer reading is a great way for students to stay engaged with reading and writing while they're away from school. When returning back to the classroom in the fall, one easy first assignment that teachers consider use is asking their students to film and edit a review...
Education Making a "What I Did This Summer" Video Collage It’s finally August! Which means that the first day of school is just around the corner. One great way to ease your students back into the classroom is with an exercise asking them to report on what they did over the summer. This kind of activity is a great light homework assignment...
Education Create a Video and Subtitles for an Original Slam Poem Slam Poetry is an incredible sub genre of poetry, and one that high school students can relate to much more than sonnets and haikus. The subject matter of slam poems are powerful, emotional, and easy to understand. In addition to this, slam poems are also an excellent way for students to...
Education How to Create Your Own Labeled Worksheet to Support Content Memorization Memorization is a challenging but important part of any anatomy lesson. From the simplest form of body part identification (like head, shoulders, knees, and toes) to a more complex test (like a high school biology exam), anatomy memorization...
Education Make a Stop Motion Video to Illustrate Mitosis in Science Class Mitosis is an important lesson in cell biology that middle and high school students across the country learn about. Mitosis is a part of the cell cycle where chromosomes are separated into two new daughter cells after replication. Understanding this process is an important...
Education Learn More About Science with Slow Motion Videos There are many things to learn in science class that can’t be seen or understood properly with just the human eye. Things in nature often move too fast or too slow to be made sense of, and the invention of video technology has helped humanity uncover answers to some of science’s biggest questions.
Education How to Improve Students’ Public Speaking Skills with Kapwing Many of us struggle with public speaking! It’s natural to get up in front of a room of people and suddenly feel like you want to melt into the ground, forget everything you had to say, or pepper your sentences with the dreaded “UM”.
Classrooms Make History Lessons Relevant Using Memes in the Classroom For many K-12 students, history class is a dreaded period of memorizing facts, reciting dates, and recalling events that often seem irrelevant to the present day. I can vividly remember listening to an
Caption How to Make Multimedia Flashcards Flashcards are a great way for learners to study vocabulary, history, art, or any other subject. This article shows you how to add images, GIFs, and videos to make multimedia digital flashcards.
