The Creative Teacher

Give your lesson plans a jolt of creativity and get better results from your students. Winner of a Teacher's Choice Award! To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. From the authors of The Organized Teacher, this award-winning resource offers hundreds of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject, across all grades (K-6)―from waking up the tired book report to making math fun. Just a few of the ideas inside The Creative Teacher, Second Edition: "I woke up five inches tall" and other quick-start creative-writing prompts How-it-works science experiments with electricity, ice cream, volcanoes--even how to make flubber Enthusiasm-generating math tools―from clock and fraction templates to creating your own money . . . and more! This new edition has been revised to align with the Common Core Standards and boasts a new CD-ROM with many pages of reproducible content including worksheets, project ideas, templates for journal pages, and more. From submarine sandwich book reports to graphic organizers to help incorporating writing into math curriculum, The Creative Teacher, Second Edition, has ideas and materials to add zing to your classroom plans as you incorporate the Common Core Standards.