Looking for middle school Easter lessons? It can be a challenge to find engaging and middle school-appropriate ways to celebrate Easter in your classroom. As much as I would love to hand out an Easter-themed colouring sheet and call it a day – I don’t think my students would be
Digital escape rooms are a great learning and engaging activity to use with your middle school students. Below are four reasons I love using middle school digital escape rooms with my classes. 1. Collaboration and Team Building Students work in groups (or independently if they prefer) to solve each challenge.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day in middle school can be a challenge – not all students want to celebrate love or are ready for dating – but most students LOVE candy. I try to focus any Valentine’s Day celebrations in my classroom around themes of candy or generic love (family, pets etc).
Have you ever used a digital escape room in your classroom? Digital escape rooms are a great tool. Have you tried a real escape room where you have a time limit to unlock the door and “escape”? These are incredible learning tools to foster creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking
Hi everyone! I’m Lyndsey from Lit with Lyns, and I’m super excited to be a guest blogger for 2 Peas and a Dog! I wanted to share some ideas about an awesome educational tool that I have started using with my classes. Over the last year, I have become completely
Using puzzles, games, breakout boxes and escape rooms have become a trend in education. We recently had a #2ndaryELA Twitter chat about using puzzles and games in the ELA classroom. Read about how these teachers are incorporating these strategies into their lessons. Q1: How are you already using puzzles and
