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Biography Projects That Students Enjoy!

Biography Projects That Students Enjoy!

Students love having choices, but they may not love writing reports.  I’m going to share how using CHOICE you can watch your elementary students eagerly work on and create some amazing biography projects.  Use student enthusiasm to integrate and teach deep concepts at the same time with the focus on learning more about a famous person during a biography report… Read More

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10 Tips To Effectively Teach Poetry

10 Tips To Effectively Teach Poetry

Are you gearing up to teach poetry but just aren’t sure where to start?!  Have no fear, here’s a list of tips and tricks to make teaching poetry an cinch, AND get your students loving it too.  Yes, even the boys! Introduce poetry with poems that your students can relate to. This is huge.  You have to hook students on… Read More

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How to Teach Scientific Inquiry and Prepare for Science Fair

How to Teach Scientific Inquiry and Prepare for Science Fair

It all starts with a question.  When you teach Scientific Inquiry the essential component to enforce with your students is to question everything.  All of our big discoveries, innovations, and new ideas come  from someone questioning the current beliefs with hopes to gain new knowledge, make something better or different, discover something new, etc.  In my classroom, that’s the most… Read More

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About Mrs. Renz

Hi there, my name is Heather, and I'm a veteran teacher from Oregon with 30+ years of experience primarily in 4th and 5th grades and middle school math. I LOVE designing curriculum! Teaching has been my life and is also my hobby! I love to create teaching materials that inspire and excite students to learn.

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