Hands-On Teaching Tip Sheets

NGSS provide opportunities for students to learn reading, writing, and math skills in the course of learning science concepts.

This sheet highlights practical ideas for assessing student learning during hands-on activities.

“Brain-writing” similar to brainstorming, but it happens quietly and is a fast and effective way to stimulate creative thinking.

Understand the types and causes of bullying and learn steps to effectively address bullying when it happens.

Effective classroom management balances student excitement with engagement.

Coaches and mentors play a vital role in developing people in many different areas including business, education, and social science.

Combine RAFT Activity Kits and Idea Sheets to create remarkable opportunities for learning.

Mathematics and art provide opportunities to express creative ideas.

Math can be used to describe the unity and structure of music. Connecting music to math makes math more interesting, relevant, and accessible to students.

Presenting math through a social studies approach encourages students to ask questions and to think creatively.

Organizations are well on their way to developing new tools to work with the new standards.

Connecting lessons to the real world drives student interest, engagement and retention.

A design challenge is an open-ended project that encourages students to ask questions, take initiative, and think creatively.

The new standards encourage teachers to break out of their “subject silos” and teach multiple subjects at the same time.

Math nights and math festivals are fun multi-teacher/ all-school activities that showcase math projects or activities.

During the RAFT Innovation Institute, we used a technique called “brain-writing” to gather 100 unique ideas in just ten minutes! What vision do you and your students have?

Here are some easy ways to help families be part of student learning.

Link RAFT hands-on activities to the new English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core standards!

From math to science and art, here are over 30 computer apps that connect RAFT hands-on activities to virtual experiences.

Even teachers with no time to spare can integrate science experiences into their literacy and mathematics lesson plans.