I created this naming polynomials poster several years ago as a way to both remind my students of the rules for naming polynomials and to decorate my room with my favorite thing – math! Now that I’m reorganizing things on my blog since changing to my own domain name, I have realized that I have …
Classroom Decor
Are you ready for a tour of my 2019-2020 high school math classroom decorations? What can I say about the 2019-2020 school year other than the fact that it’s been CRAZY? I ended last school year a few weeks early due to taking maternity leave. It felt weird not having the closure of the normal …
I started putting together these math joke of the week posters at the end of last school year. I’m super excited about how it turned out. I put the finishing touches on it this week, so I’m finally ready to share it with you guys. I saw an idea on twitter a year or so …
I’m super excited about my new powers posters. I have created individual posters that list the first eight powers of the numbers from 2 to 9. Today, I finally started hanging up a few decorations. My room is starting to look like a math classroom again! I’ve been doing a mix of relaxing and prepping …
I created a name sign for my podium using the math alphabet. I have created a math alphabet resource page to share files and inspiration for creating your own math alphabet creations. Before making your own, I would definitely recommend measuring the exact space you have available. This will help you size your letters correctly …
I typed up a Google Classroom poster that I will be hanging up in my classroom with the code for each period of the day. This past year was my first year in a 1:1 environment and my first year using Google Classroom. Every time I got a new student this past year or had …
I created this set of 12 basic functions posters to accompany the 12 Basic Functions Challenge Activity for my Pre-Calculus Classes. I decided the posters deserve a page of their own so they can be more easily found and downloaded. Each one of these posters represented one of the 12 basic functions identified in our …
It’s time to share with you my 2018-2019 high school math classroom decorations now that I have successfully taught my first full week of the school year (plus a two day week before that) at my new school. In case you missed the announcement, I have returned to the high school I graduated from to …
I’m here today to share some Roots Solutions Zeros X-Intercepts Posters. Yes, that is a mouthful. Yesterday, I started doing some serious planning for teaching Algebra 2 in less than a month! I’m at a new school that has adopted new textbooks, and I’m not exactly the biggest fan of the chosen Algebra 2 book. …
I took the SolveMe Mobiles that my students created using construction paper and circle stickers and turned it into a bulletin board so that students could attempt to solve the mobiles created by other students.
Now that I’m thinking about how to decorate my new classroom in a new district, I’ve realized that I never got around to sharing photos on this blog of my 2017-2018 high school math classroom decorations. So, my goal today is to fix that. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy seeing some decoration ideas, and I’m hoping …
Just a quick post today to share a new covalent compounds bulletin board. I haven’t done a great job of changing my bulletin boards out this year, but that can pretty much be said about any year. I always have intentions of changing them monthly, but the reality is I change them anywhere from semesterly …
Today I’m sharing some Triangular Numbers Posters with you. It’s January, and I’m still finding new things that need to go up on the walls of my classroom. It’s a bit of an obsession. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at my classroom! My Math Concepts class has been working on “That’s Logical” puzzles …
I’m jealous of these inequality posters that my husband made for his classroom. I need to find a way to incorporate them into my classroom decor next year! You can find these posters on Shaun’s blog!
Before I share the chromatography butterflies bulletin board that my chemistry students created, I should make it clear that I’m teaching chemistry this year under some not-so-normal circumstances. I still want to keep my chemistry class as hands-on as possible. This has meant that I have to get creative to find lab activities that my …
Usually, I’m a big fan of decorating my bulletin boards. Hello, I have an entire page on my blog dedicated to bulletin board designs. This year, after moving classrooms for the second time in two years, I decided to take a different approach to bulletin boards. I still decorated the walls around my bulletin boards, …
At the beginning of my career, I ran across a set of free scientific method posters from Scholastic. I remember thinking to myself, “These are so cute. I almost wish I was a science teacher!” Fast forward a few years. I’m now teaching chemistry after teaching physical science last year. This means I can finally …
This year, I am trying out Estimation 180 in my Math Concepts class, a class for 9th graders not yet ready for Algebra 1. After two weeks of giving students the formula for percent error EVERY SINGLE DAY, I finally made an Estimation 180 Poster! This poster was inspired by a tweet from Lisa Bejarano. …
During the first week of school, I took a page from Sara VanDerWerf’s playbook and showed my students the escalator and beagle videos mentioned in this blog post. I highly recommend you read about how Sara uses these in class. I basically copied everything she said! The escalator video is especially moving. Whenever I watch …
Another day. Another poster. Today I’m sharing some SI Units Posters. I guess that must mean it’s back to school time. I’m teaching chemistry for the first time this year, so I decided I need to up the number of science-y posters on my walls. Last year, I found out I was teaching physical science …
I want to share a set of TULSA Graphing Posters here on the blog today. Today was definitely not my day. Our first professional day is tomorrow, so I decided it would be wise to go into school early today to try and get used to the fact that summer is over. After a bit …
As I start to think about how to decorate my classroom for the upcoming school year, I am reflecting on last year’s classroom design. What was useful? What was cute but ended up being a waste of time? Today I want to share the top ten classroom decorations that my students actually used and referenced …
One of the reasons I adore my physical science class is that they love the posters I have hanging up in my classroom. Decorating my classroom makes my heart happy, and the fact that I have students who take the time to show appreciation for my hard work just makes my heart even happier. A …
I’m excited to share a new poster – the Good at Math poster – with you today. Today, my students have been taking semester tests. The good thing about semester tests is that I don’t have any lessons to prepare. I guess I did write the tests, but I don’t count that since it was …
Today, I want to share a poster I recently made for my physical science class. We’ve been writing chemical reactions, and my students need a bit of a reminder about which elements exist diatomically. When I took chemistry in high school, my teacher taught us the BrINClHOF mnemonic device. I guess it’s catchy because it’s …