Posts about Lesson Planning

Earth Day is April 22nd. Explore ways to incorporate lessons about climate change into your classroom.

At one end of the curriculum spectrum, there are fully-scripted, off-the-shelf options and at the other is, well, nothing—a blank page leaving you unlimited possibilities for what to plan. Could the best answer lie somewhere in the middle?

This week, the Thomas Fordham Institute published a report on the quality of materials from three popular curriculum-sharing websites and came to conclusions that the majority are of poor quality.

We think this makes the case for high-quality OER even stronger.

The most rewarding part of the last three years has been connecting with so many teachers, and learning about the ways that the Fishtank curriculum has helped you and your students.

One thing we hear over and over again is that teachers like you need more of two basic things: time and trust. We agree.