Variety IS the Spice of My Classroom

Here's just a short list of how I spice things up in my classroom...

~ Hands-on manipulatives
~ Kinesthetic opportunities to act out
~ Surveys
~ Journaling
~ Videos (not many and they are never long!!)
~ Real life applications to math
~ Real life applications to real life
~ Cooperative groups
~ Technology (...I am looking through my lesson plan book and am only to the last week of August so far)
~ Rubrics
~ Create an advertisement - TRC project on Central Tendencies
~ Give the answer to a problem and students create the problem
~ Food...graham cracker activity for fractions
~ Maze Game - multiple answers, problem solving
~ Card to Card Game
~ 30 minute Experts - Real Number System
~ Storyboards
~ Student presentations - TRC Project on Real Number Systems
~ Graphic Organizers - Frayer Model
~ Tic-Tac-Toe Board - Differentiated Learning
~ Songs
~ Creative writing
~ Worksheets for practice (We finished with the month of September!)
~ Acronyms
~ Riddle Worksheets
~ 3x3 puzzles (cut and paste)
~ Using hypotheses
~ Smartboard lesson (adding and subtracting integers)
~ Number lines
~ Podcasts
~ thatquiz.org
~ Ruby Payne - "Good Guy, Bad Guy"
~ Similarities and Differences
~ Game of traveling
~ Trial and error
~ Multiple methods
~ Fur.ly
~ FISHY method (October has now passed...)
~ Lesson outside - Shadow Data
~ Technology - TRC - Similar Figure Drawings
~ Cartoon
~ Venn Diagrams
~ Travel Math
~ SKUNK game
~ Guided Notes
~ Textbook
~ Homework Quiz
~ PBL - TRC Close the Door on Hunger project - Students create public service announcement
~ Find the Fib
~ Story Telling
~ Graphic Organizers
~ Lecture
~ Technology - TRC - Pythagorean Career
~ Graphing calculators
~ Flashcards
~ Stained Glass window
~ Foldables
~ Balance Scales
~ Internet games
~ How to Video - TRC Project - How to solve 2-step equations
~ Mindmaps
~ My Business Story - TRC Project - Figuring Taxes and Discounts
~ KWL charts