Let’s Wrap This Up!

May 29, 2019 | Lessons

It’s the end of the school year and testing is OVER! That’s right…O-V-E-R, OVER. So, now what? For most, this time of the year means cleaning out desks, taking down bulletin boards, and trying to keep your students focused on something education-related. With just a...

Game-Play Leads to Learning Benefits

May 16, 2019 | Best Practices, New Features

Choose the best answer to the following question: On a Wednesday afternoon, a math teacher asks his class of 6th graders, “Who wants to play a game?” What is the most likely response from the class of students? A few students raise their hands while the rest of the...

Cloze Activities for Interactive Boards

May 13, 2019 | Best Practices, New Features

Can you correctly complete the following sentence? ____ sentences have ____ that students need to fill in with the correct _____. Correct answer: Cloze sentences have blanks that students need to fill in with the correct answers. Cloze activities can be applied to a...

Math Workshop – Your Students Will Thank You

May 1, 2019 | Best Practices

Math has been the bane of my educational career, starting from kindergarten (“Count what?”) to when I was studying to get my teaching credential and had to take an Educational Foundations of Math class (“There’s a difference between concept and skill?!”). Teaching...

OKTOPUS Premium Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

May 1, 2019 | Lessons

As educators, we are constantly on the hunt for activities and plans that can add to our repertoire of lessons. This is probably done more when we’re preparing our students for state standardized assessments. Besides using released sample questions and practice tests,...