Did you know that a year passes 15 microseconds faster on Mount Everest than at sea level?
Or that the strontium atomic clock is the most accurate clock ever built? It can keep time to within a second over 15 …
Do your students love the internet as much as mine ? I’m betting your answer is a solid yes!
Most people today spend more time online than doing anything else except breathing.
What’s more, depending on their age, kids spend …
Tweens, teens and screens.
They go together like bread, peanut butter and jelly.
I mean, what middle school teacher ever announced a movie day only to receive a chorus of groans?
Probably has never happened in the history of education.…
Who doesn’t love a good story?
As novelist Ken Kesey famously proclaimed, “To hell with facts! We need stories!”
I’ve never met a student of any age who couldn’t appreciate a well-told story, and when the story is a …
Take a minute and think back to your favorite childhood winter holiday traditions.
Maybe it was decorating the Christmas tree.
Perhaps you loved putting a gingerbread house together.
Or maybe you thought opening presents was the best part of the …
Want to add some zest to your Spanish lessons?
Imagine your students’ faces when you tell them “se me fueron las chivas” (“my goats got away from me”) as you explain how something slipped your mind.
Think of their …
