Take a virtual field trip! Here are 5 great ones…and a link to 5 more! 1. Arctic Adventure Free to the entire K-12 community, this programming uses the allure of Arctic dogsled expeditions and Arctic research as the vehicle through which K-12 teachers and students gain an understanding of natural and social sciences while they experience […]

How great would this be to create about your subject, grade level, a specials teacher, etc? A great closing activity! I used to have my students FILL an 8 1/2 sheet of copy paper full of all the things we’d learned cumulatively  from the past year. they could use their books, their journals, etc. I’d

Have each student, on a sheet of notebook paper create different scrabble tiles. Then, go outside and play team scrabble! You can do a theme version, a nouns only, or verbs only version…best adjective wins a prize! So easy and so fun! Tile-y, Amber

Have you let your students create something this year? Have they had the opportunity to show off their high thinking skills? I loved 5th grades angry bird’s animal adaptations that they have up right now.  It took something that students enjoy and allowed them to create an adapted animal. Remmeber that our fab fifth graders

A balloon pop is a cute idea for students to do at the end of the year serving as a countdown. Each student writes a reward/activity that they would like to do. Then they turn them into you and you can pick the ones you want to do inside a balloon and blow them up.

This activity includes a worksheet set up as an “end of year” activity AND a blank version for you to adapt as you see fit – I’ve used it for review questions / work and the kids like to use it.    

Love this idea from Jo’s PhotoMojo.  Snap a picture of each of your students holding a sign saying what they want to be when they get up.  Then use PicMonkey (or another image editing service) to make a collage of the photos and send them home as year-end gifts.