end of year Archives - A Lesson Plan for Teachers

End of Year Test Prep for Social Studies Classes

Posted on April 20, 2021June 22, 2021 by Michele Luck

As this year's final days approach, you may be thinking about test prep - and not much else! With the big standardized tests rapidly approaching, end of year test prep may be all you have time for. Use assessments and...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

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

In the Students’ Hands

Posted on May 20, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

There comes a time with every child when the parents must allow them to go off on their own to do their own thing. We often talk about the baby bird first using its wings to fly, and while poetic,...Read More

Thinking About Next Year?

Posted on May 15, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

For many, this school year hasn't yet ended, but this is the PERFECT time to begin your planning for next year. And, while many of you are screaming that you need your break first, I argue this will help you...Read More