Crab soccer calls for foam balls or plastic kickballs as well as two soccer nets. This indoor game requires students to be divided into two teams, with all positions played from a crab stance -- hands and feet on the ground, stomach facing the ceiling or sky. Designate the playing field,...
Invigorate your students and stimulate creative thinking by facilitating a sentence relay race. The goal of the race is to see which team can compose a sentence on a given subject. Begin by taping large pieces of paper to the wall and line up student teams about 5 feet from the wall. Giv...
Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself. —William Deresiewicz 9 Teaching is...
If you have knitting or sewing abilities, create items that will have him thinking of you each time he wears it. Homemade gifts show your recipient that you put more effort into your present than simply buying it, explains Sherman. Perhaps you can send him a hat and scarf set or sweater...
I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years. —Deborah Kass ...
things to say. Perhaps you told a joke that bombed, and everyone is standing around shifting their feet. Whatever the reason for the awkward turn in the conversation, you can save the day with a bit of quick thinking. Even the most uncomfortable silence can be broken with the right words...