Supporting teachers with engaging and meaningful resources
Mystery Science and supplemental guided notes worksheets have been a godsend to my science instruction. Before Mystery Science, I don’t think I really knew how to teach 5th-grade science in a fun and engaging way. Sure I had a few fun lessons under my belt thanks to a few science kits that my district provided, […]
If you are a teacher who has to teach all subjects including PE (yep, that’s me), you are probably overwhelmed with lesson planning. Just coming up with engaging lessons for all subjects is very stressful. To tell you the truth, I dreaded teaching Science because I just didn’t know what to do to teach the […]
When students are reading non-fiction text, their comprehension increases if they have some sort of background knowledge about the topic and are familiar with domain-specific vocabulary. It might feel like you are spoiling what the students are about to read when you activate their background knowledge and frontload vocabulary, but the opposite could not be […]
