A Day of Virtual PD and Exploring Citizen Science: ScIC5 Unconference presented by PocketLab - This is the 5th Science is Cool "Unconference" that PocketLab has sponsored and the 4th one... Click to read more

A Digital Science Fair - Stepping away from the tri-fold backboards! - I created a digital science fair backboard that the students could customize using a... Click to read more

Why you Should Make a Sub Plan and Emergency Binder - I put together this blog with a free download of my sub/ emergency plan binder at the ... Click to read more

6 Ways to Assign and Collect Assignments for Remote Learning. - I was asked to create a few tutorials and recommendations of how to share assignments with students remotely and not have... Click to read more

Covid-19 Classroom Technology - This teacher technology setup allows me to check emails and take attendance on my laptop,.. Click to read more

Mrs. Watson's Classroom tour! - I always love seeing the amazing things other teachers do in their classroom so I hope you are... Click to read more

Learn how to Create Digital Escape Rooms - 

This blog is about how you can easily make any worksheet or formative assessment into a... Click to read more

A Beginners Guide for OneNote - Create, Share, and Grade your student's work in 1 place! - This blog and tutorial is about OneNote for digital Interactive Notebooks. This is a I believe it to be a powerful learning tool for... Click to read more

First Day of School 2020 - Blended Learning About Me and Ice Breaker Activities - Here are some of the ideas that I came up with that could be an option to help get my students t... Click to read more

Digital Interactive Notebooks - A how-to Guide! 4/4 - This blog is about how I converted my INB's into digital format for distance or 1-2-1... Click to read more

How to Share your Digital Worksheet and Lessons. 3/4 - Sharing your worksheets or digital INB is going to look very different depending on the platform and... Click to read more

Making any Worksheet into a Digital and Shareable Worksheet. 2/4 - To turn a worksheet into a digital and interactive format, you will be working in Google Slides or... Click to read more

Digitizing your Lessons - Prepare for a new era of Teaching! 1/4 - I have created another blog series on how to convert your lessons to a digital format. Now... Click to read more

A Day of Virtual PD in the Age of Virtual Learning: ScIC3 Unconference presented by PocketLab - This is the third Science is Cool "Unconference" that PocketLab has a variety of knowledgeable... Click to read more

Two Words Guaranteed to Increase Student Engagement! - Learn about 2 little words that you can add into your daily warm-ups that will boost your... Click to read more

Individually assessing your students before the bell rings! You can do it and they will like it! - I put the units highly assessed academic sight words or concepts onto a flashcard to... Click to read more

Using ClassroomScreens.com for Classroom Management and Creating an "Interactive" Whiteboard".  - ClassroomScreen.com is a free program that allows you to quickly pick various tools you ma... Click to read more

Plastic Free July!! - I want you to consider your single-use plastic footprint and try to find ways to reduce it... Click to read more

Using Google Calendar to Lesson plan and create a shareable class calendar! - I use Google Calendars as my center for lesson planning. You can embed your google calendar... Click to read more

Controlled Experiments - Instructional Video - A quick reference tool to use for those who are still confusing replication with repetition,... Click to read more

Designing a virtual Bitmoji Classroom Space - Getting Started 1/6 - This post is all about designing and building a virtual classroom in Google slides... Click to read more

Customizing and adding your Bitmoji to your Virtual Classroom 2/6 - This post is all about creating and adding your virtual Bitmoji into your classroom... Click to read more

How to use and share your Bitmoji Classroom 3/6 -  This post is all about using and sharing your virtual Bitmoji classroom with your students and families... Click to read more

Adding Multiple Rooms to your Virtual Bitmoji Classroom 4/6 - This post is all about taking your virtual Bitmoji Virtual Classroom to the next level by adding ... Click to read more

Making your Bitmoji Virtual Classroom into a "Website" 5/6 - This post is all about turning your virtual Bitmoji Virtual Classroom into a "webite"... Click to read more

Embedding your Bitmoji Virtual Classroom into your LMS - Canvas 6/6 - This post is all about actually adding your Bitmoji Virtual Classroom into your school LM... Click to read more

Bitmoji Virtual Classrooms - Game Changers in the Age of Distance Learning - The chaos of Corona and distance learning gave us outlets to come together virtually like ... Click to read more

Google Forms for Student Assessment - A google form as an easily shareable data input program. You can customize your form to create auto graded student tests... 

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Google Forms for Classroom Management and Organization - A google form is an easily shareable data input program. You can customize your forms to... Click to read more

Amazon - Science Fun - These are my science is fun items Check out my other amazon categories: Classroom Must... Click to read more

Amazon - Extra things I love having - 

Teaching is hard, here are some Amazon purchases that are not necessarily needed but make... Click to read more

Amazon - Things I can't teach without! - These are Amazon items that you should buy for your classroom. They are used all the time and... Click to read more

"Doodle" style notes - integrating appropriate graphics, pops of word art, and appealing layouts to your traditional guided... Click to read more

Structure Strips - Shaking up the INB A structure strip is a narrow column that you glue into the margin of the INB that is spatially... Click to read more

Foster Your Students Creativity - Daily

Output pages are designed to engage students "right brain" and allow students to quickly... Click to read more

Why I use Cornell-ish Notes - Consistency throughout my INB helps my students know what to expect for direct instruction, ... Click to read more

An Interactive Notebook Starter Guide - I adapted the rigid and glue/foldable heavy INB's and made it my own. With these... 

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Glue Sponges - Classroom Heroes - Get rid of your classroom glue disasters! Invest in glue sponges and reduce your pasting paper drama... Click to read more

Grading Interactive Notebooks - I am going to let you in on a secret! I only grade my students INB's 8 times a year. 1 time for ... Click to read more