The Teacher's Box of Tricks: No prep, collaborative active learning strategies

Does lesson planning take you HOURS? Are you spending way too much time thinking up or searching out a creative, engaging way for kids to practice what they’ve learned? Have your students lost interest in school because you're forced to give them so many boring test prep worksheets? The solution is simple: add more engaging activities to your teaching “box of tricks”! I’m sharing my own personal box of tricks: no-prep learning activities that I’ve tested out in a wide variety of classrooms for more than fifteen years. You can plug these activities into almost any lesson as a way for students to practice the concepts/skills you've taught them.   In this file, you’ll get:  * 35 adaptable activities in a PDF list format that you can keep digitally or print out and store in your lesson plan binder * The same 35 adaptable activities in 3x5 card size so that you can print them on card stock, cut them out, and store them in an index card case for easy reference. Use dividers to separate an