RIDDLES: I still remember a 7th grade teacher who would put a visual puzzle on the board every other day, and the way we competed to see who could figure it out the fastest. If you have students like that, you might get some use out of this collection of 150 trick questions:
GOOGLE DOCS: Always practical Alice Keeler has an explanation of why Google Docs is better in pageless view (tl;dr: because we display on screen more often than we print these days), as well as ideas for using pageless view and the benefits you'll find.
WHAT WE TEACH MATTERS: And I'm sure we know that instinctively. Still, it's nice to have some concrete data we can point to — like this new study that found computer science courses in high school have a measurable impact on a student's likelihood of completing a computer science degree.
THE VOID: That's my word for the mental place that so many bright, curious, motivated students disappear to sometime between 4th grade and 9th grade — many to never return. One of my burning desires in education is to understand what drives this behavior, so that we can change school to keep it from happening. Apparently, I'm not the only one noticing (and "engagement cliff" is a much better phrase than "the void" anyway). Read the replies while asking yourself "If I could somehow keep this from happening, what cost would be too high?"
HISTORY GAME: Pretty sure if I taught history I would play Flashback from the NY Times with the class to start class one day a week.
MATH STATIONS / GUIDED MATH: Very practical here, including free templates, on setting up a circuit of guided math stations.
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