Teach Children Well

My colleague, Susan Cherwinski +Susan Cherwinski  (@SJCteach) , and I created this poster to guide student-centered, engaging classroom peda...

In education, every minute matters. Effective, regular communication serves to connect and maximize our collective efforts. Ineffecti...

Inspiration for our Sound Unit End Product Prototypes I want to use what I learned from the Marble Maze Simple Machine exploration to in...

It's important to assess and evaluate your role every now and then. Looking at your role with both a broad and narrow lens helps you to ...

STEAMwork is also a bumpy road.! I will frame family's experience of today's informal STEAM open house with the following words:...

Tomorrow I've invited parents in to see the marble maze simple machine projects. I hesitated to do this because the projects are not a...

Some routines that successful students employ are not employed by other students. Why? Simply put, there was not enough repetition, feed...

The workman came in to say that I had to move the cardboard from the corner so he could do his work. The timing wasn't too bad as tomo...

Changing grades and new standards meant I had a lot of science to plan and prepare for this year. On top of lots of new math standards, the ...

The marble maze simple machine project took on a life of its own. Although today was the last official day, students implored me to keep ...

Tomorrow represents our last official marble maze project day. I'll leave the projects up for another week for recess play and work. T...

Yesterday I was struck with a child's extraordinary interest and skill when it came to engineering a marble maze with simple machines. T...

I finally decided that the maze project will be completed on Friday and made more time for the project today, tomorrow, and Friday. It was...

The intersection of standardized testing and STEAM study is making my classroom uncomfortable. The types of spaces, time, and attention both...

Not unlike the Cardboard Challenge project, the room is a big mess as students craft simple machine marble mazes. Students are using cardbo...

I really like the fact that this marble maze project has no hard, fast deadlines. It's a true learning project--a kind of "call and...

If you look up student marble maze projects online, you'll notice that this is a popular project that spans geography and grade-levels. ...

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver George Washington Carver will be o...

I have many favorite places in nature, and one of them is the rocky summit of Mt. Gorham in Acadia National Park.  The curriculum and p...

Ms. Cherwinski's TEAM 16 at SCRATCH Event One part of teaching that I love is the learning--it's a sport for me, and as I look f...