Show Me the Strategies is a great article that provides many resources on how to engage your students from the time your students walk through your classroom door. "What happens in the first minutes of your class will indicate your success for the rest of the class period." If students could vote with their feet, what will you do the first five minutes of every lesson so that students will want to be in your classroom? Something to think about.
Excellent resource! I like for kiddos to wonder why we start out doing an activity...& then spend the class period making AhHa's & application.
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Thanks!
Many great ideas! My students have been very responsive to these types of "opening activities" in the past! You know you have them hooked when they ask, "Can we do that again?"
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