Educational Innovations Blog

The Index Card Illusion Trick

Tami O’Connor, EI’s Educator-in-Chief, swears by this brain stumper activity as an icebreaker lesson for the first day of school..  Getting it ready is simple… but figuring it out isn’t quite as easy!

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The beginning of a new school year is a great time to consider fresh ways to motivate your students—and yourself!  It’s also a time to have some fun.  After all, in just a few days, the lesson plans and homework assignments will begin in earnest.  Our goal is to inspire you and make you laugh with these videos.

If you’d like to share an inspirational (or silly) teacher video, leave the URL in a comment below.

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For teachers, back to school means getting ready for new students whose names, faces, and learning styles you haven’t yet learned.   For students, it’s often a nervous time—will they fit in?  Who will be their new friends?   We’ve collected some wonderful team-building activities here.  They’ll make the first days of school more productive while getting your students ready for a fantastic year of science learning (and FUN)!

If you have any team-building activities or classroom ice breakers related to science, we’d love to hear about them!  Please add them in the Comments section below.

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