iTeach and iLearn

File this under the "how could I use this for a lesson" file... (with thanks to my twitterfriend, Kyle Calderwood , for sharing......

Those of you who are regular readers may know how much I love geography. I think maps are cool. (I was that geeky kid studying the maps in t...

Image by Enrique Flouret [CC BY 2.0] I have shared my love of geography here before, and though I'm not a geography teacher in an o...

Oh, don't you just love educational jargon? (I sound like I'm being sarcastic, don't I? Maybe I am...a bit...but to be fair, I t...

I love animated gifs. Sometimes they just hit your funny bone, right? Like this one, for instance: Even Vader loves pizza. [Scrounged fr...

One of my most-viewed posts to date is titled " Eight Helpful Resources for Teaching Geography ." I'm glad this was--apparentl...

An empty baggie? I have this baggie in my desk. It is empty. I can't remember when I put it in there either. But it's a sign of...

(This post is part of a series about the weird stuff teachers have in their desk drawers. You can read more about this project  here , and I...

Science teachers, make some slime and let the kids play! I was a middle school science teacher for many years, and now I am privileged to...

Teacher, do you ever have those days where everything feels overwhelming? Students are challenging. Colleagues are not being very c...

My son and I share a common bond in our love of Legos. Yesterday I snapped this picture of a sort of bizarro " Super Friends " tea...

I love trivia. Random facts are just good fun! If you feel the same way, may I suggest you check out Mental_Floss ? I've been getting ...

My kids love Minecraft. Have you played it at all? I put the "pocket edition" on my iPad, and now they fight over who gets to pla...

So you want to have your elementary or middle school students create short, narrated animations on their iPads? I just came across a nifty a...

By User Apple2gs, via Wikimedia Commons If you were a child of the 80's (and maybe even the 90's), did you have an Apple II (or...

Great online curriculum resource to share with you here: PBS LearningMedia. A selection, just for examples: (with suggested grade levels) ...

English teachers, this one is for you. Check out the Story Starters tool on Scholastic.com. I was visiting a student teacher yesterday an...

Okay, it's a game. But it'll teach your students some physics concepts and problem-solving strategies in the midst of playing a game...

Check out phrase.it . It will let you do things like this: Or this: phrase.it will let you add cartoon word bubbles to your own ...

In case you are running stuck with things for your middle schooler (or high schooler, or yourself...) to do over Christmas Break, let me enc...