Unitizing is not only a mathematical term, but it’s also a business term. Have you ever wondered when businesses ship hundreds of boxes, how do they keep track? By unitizing! The shipping company will unitize…
After ending the Folktale Unit with my class, it was time for a culminating homework project. Each student received a five-page template to create an iFolktale. What’s an iFolktale? Just a template that looks like a…
Did you ever think that as a third-grade teacher or even as an elementary teacher you would be teaching the Distributive Property of Multiplication? When I started teaching over 30 years ago, there weren’t even…
My previous posts in this series (Part 1 and Part 2) explained the reasons why I have made the switch to a Digital Notebook because they are colorful, paperless and media-rich. I also gave examples…
My class just recently finished with our Solar System Unit. In my district, which is in California, we are still operating under the old California Science Standards and still using a very outdated textbook. Nevertheless,…
