Movement in the classroom is so important, even at the secondary level.  I have my classes for 80 minutes every other day and that is a really long time to be sitting still.  When I have a double period I always allow for some movement even if it's just getting up to work with a partner on classwork or when I use Math Workshop .  In this post I am going to talk about two activities that are my favorite to use when incorporating movement. Quiz Quiz Trade This one (I feel) is a little less common and maybe unknown.  I discovered it years ago online, but it wasn't until the last few years that I started using it more.   Number Properties Quiz Quiz Trade - 30 card set Prep: In order to play "Quiz, quiz, trade" you need to prepare some sort of flashcards. The template I use is set up so that on one side you type a question or problem and the other side you type the answer and then you fold the cards in half.  My largest class is 27 students so I usually make 30 cards for

  Let's talk Math Workshop!  From googling and searching around, I found that the gist of math workshop is the same but does vary a bit from person to person.  This is how I set mine up to work with 8th graders. M - Meet with the Teacher A  - At your Seat T  - Technology H  - Hands-On These are some of the ideas I use for each station... I have block scheduling so I have a double period (80 minutes) with each class every other day.  I usually need about 10-15 minutes to explain each station for that day so that leaves me with about 15 minutes per station.  In my opinion that is a good amount of time, but I am still tweaking the activities at each station to make sure that each can be completed within a 15 minute time period.  There has been some trial and error.  I have been using slidesmania.com to create slides for this.  It is a great website with tons of free, unique, creative and editable templates to use.  Below is an example of a math workshop I ran recently: Meet the Teac

Have you heard of thin-slicing tasks?  I hadn't, until I read "Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12" by Peter Liljedahl.  This idea was one of my favorites!  Basically, thin-slicing tasks are questions on a given topic that gradually increase in difficulty.  Students are only given one task at a time to complete. Since I wasn't ready to dedicate a whole period to allow students to learn by thin-slicing tasks, I had to come up with a way to incorporate it.  I decided to do this during Math Workshop.  One of the stations is "Meet with the Teacher" and that is where I used them. This is how I ran it...  I have a table in the back of my room with seats for four students and a large white board on the wall behind the table.  Since I have a class of 28 and need larger group sizes, I used 2-3 desks also, facing the white board.  When students came to that station, all they needed was their calculator.  My setup included: Individual white boards