Author Archives: Deborah Park
2nd Time Around-Reusing Your Creations
Have you ever put a lot of time and resources into a project and then felt bad when the program was over because you hated to throw away all your ...
Student-Led Week of Prayer: God’s Power is All Around Us
Clouds in a bottle? Rainbows in a glass? Air pressure in a balloon? Loadstones picking up paper clips? What could all these things be a part of?
Every year the sixth ...
Teaching Students to Reach Out to Others
As Americans we are so blessed with material things and all the comforts of life that we can easily forget how most of the rest of the world lives with ...
Free Online Lesson Planning
Having taught now for more than 30 years, I find myself doing things the 'old school way' mostly because I am familiar with that way, not because that way is ...
DIY Valentine’s Day Cards
Valentine's Day can be a great opportunity for showing your students how much they matter to you. Nothing says you matter as much as something hand-made. Using Laura Cochrane's Love ...
Making Dragons to Celebrate Chinese New Year
What better way to end our unit on Ancient China than with a special Chinese New Year celebration? And because 6th graders are of an age that they love bigger ...
Wrong is Wrong: Right is Right
Always finding clever ideas and inspirational thoughts on Pinterest, I am eager to actually turn some of those great finds into projects of my own. Recently I came across this ...
How to Repurpose Elements for Quick and Easy Bulletin Boards
Getting back to school means getting a lot of things together and done. Like me, you probably have some new textbooks and curriculum standards to familiarize yourself with, workshops and ...
First Day of School Activity
Unlike many of you who will be starting school tomorrow AFTER the Labor Day weekend, I started classes two weeks ago on the 19th of August. I fully intended to get ...
Ancient Jars & Rainbow Stars
With the year winding down, there are moments when I want to do a “filler” but also continue to teach good things. Two fun and easy end-of-the-year crafts that my ...