end of school year Archives - A Lesson Plan for Teachers

Wrapping up the School Year: End of the Year Review and Test Prep

Posted on May 29, 2019July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Searching for the perfect end-of-the-year wrap-up activity? A comprehensive lesson to review the content, prepare for standardized exams, study for final exams, and bring another successful school year to a close? Look no further! The perfect activity doesn't require loads...Read More

Student Importance and Significance

Posted on May 9, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Throughout the year, we teach our students about the important places, events, and people of our world. While these are all valuable lessons, it is also importance to teach them of their own importance and significance in our world. Many...Read More

End of Year Review? Play Games!

Posted on May 1, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

At the end of each school year, students are restless, but they still need to be enticed to prepare for their end of year exams. In my classes, I let my students create and play games! Creating and playing games...Read More

Traveling from the Classroom

Posted on April 25, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Toward the end of the school year, student focus can be a great challenge. I always found that my students started looking more through the windows than they did toward the board as the spring months rolled around and summer...Read More

Teaching in the Springtime!

Posted on April 18, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Believe it or not, students do still have the capacity to learn in the springtime! Even after testing! Even when the calendar warns of summer on the horizon and the crisp, clean breezes are blowing through the windows. For me,...Read More

Effective End of the Year Review

Posted on April 11, 2016July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

At the end of the year, there is so much content to review, but so little time. Finding effective methods for reviewing a full course can be a great challenge. This is why I created the resources I needed to...Read More

Monday Mapping: Addressing Current Events with Historical Facts

Posted on May 18, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As we get closer to the end of the school year, and especially after testing, it becomes more and more challenging to teach in the content-based, unit to unit way we are used to in our Social Studies classrooms. Students...Read More

Secondary Smorgasbord: Games to Keep Them Engaged at Year’s End

Posted on May 10, 2015July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Teaching new content at the end of the year is most often out of the question with crazy schedules and early dismissed groups as events and other obligations draw our students in every direction. Still, we know we must wrap-up...Read More

Say the Goodbyes You Want to Say!

Posted on May 31, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

As the school year comes to a close, we are all often overwhelmed with everything that must be done. We worry about the EOCs, the final exams, the last minute assignments, and all the required data analysis. Sometimes we are...Read More

It’s Coming…

Posted on May 24, 2014July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

The last weeks of each school year are always the hardest. There are just so many factors coming into play, making each day its own challenge. The students are antsy, you are thinking about your summer plans, and yet you...Read More