Covered Australian geography today, focusing on the outback 🌏🦘 Hit some fast & curious #eduprotocols and traps & treasures from #emc2learning Mid May and engagement is still pretty high with only 9 days left of school! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

The Orange Twist: How I Used AI to Make a Textbook Fun Sometimes, teaching history means peeling back the layers. Literally. It was late in the year, and I just wanted to mix things up. We'd been hitting heavy content, and I needed something different—not easier, just... different. So I asked AI…

Things That Shaped Me: The Student Who Called It Like It Was It was late in the year. We had a new textbook series, and I was opening our Civil War unit with what the book called a “geography challenge.” Blank map. Labeling instructions. A few basic questions. I passed it out like I had all…

The Week That Was In 234 This week in 234, we stacked a lot of learning into five days—Fast & Curious, Frayer Models, Mini Reports, Short Answer Battle Royales, and even a Netflix-themed summative. We used Thin Slides and AI tools like MagicSchool to keep thinking sharp and feedback immediate.…

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Hit some fast & curious #eduprotocols and poker chip chase from #emc2learning Hit some African econ today to wrap up our unit 2.5 weeks before school is out & my engagement is still high reading & Note-taking! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

Getting my last unit of the year put together with some #emc2learning next level literacy strategies Traps & treasures & poker chip chase! If you're needing a high engagement, gamified approach to close reading you should def check out emc2 @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

Hit some egg dash challenge from #emc2learning to review our unit today

Donuts, detectives, and deep thinking in Room 234 this week. From Annotate & Tell to “Truth with Sprinkles,” we layered learning and let students do the heavy lifting. #EduProtocols #MiddleSchoolHistory tinyurl.com/twtw234

The Week That Was In 234 Monday We came back from spring break, and I knew better than to pretend everything would pick up right where we left off. After 10 days off, kids needed a ramp—but that didn’t mean the day had to be a throwaway. I wanted to build back some content momentum while still…

Playing around this unit with a lot of playlists/individual rotation from @catlintucker.com for Africa I'm using #eduprotocols & #emc2learning for the tasks mainly Africa geography & Africa culture for the past few days .. 11 tasks over 6 days in total, not bad for mid April

Hitting my first scramble centers tomorrow from #emc2learning Plenty of reading & notes, edpuzzle, webquest, blooket, & sketching 6 stations over 2 days Africa edition of the Great American Race! @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

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The best part of using #eduprotocols & #emc2learning are these frequent notes I get.... Constant engagement! Kids love it & I love seeing kids actually love school, that's tough teaching a title 1 school with 75% kids on free lunch @mrmatera.bsky.social @jcorippo.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

TWTW in 234: Refuted claims, built vocab, and brought history to life with Thin Slides, Nacho Paragraphs, and Craft-a-Cola. #EduProtocols tinyurl.com/yfsj7v8s

Tried out an awesome #eduprotocol Rack and Stack today: Fast & Curious → Edpuzzle + Thin Slide → Number Mania → Nacho Paragraph. Each step built off the last and it was brought it all together with a nacho paragraph in Short Answer. Reflected on it here: tinyurl.com/ywx83kar

Big picture pinpoint 🎯 and fast & curious🏁 Nile River Civilization #emc2learning #eduprotocols #edusky @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social Had a lot of diversity in facts paragraph to paragraph & class to class Kids have a blast with this one!

The Social Studies Show – #EduProtocols & ShortAnswer! Join Scott Petri and Adam Moler for a live session on Sat, March 22 at: 9 AM PST | 12 PM EST EduProtocols and ShortAnswer - supercharge student writing! Guests: 🔹 Adam Sparks 🔹 Courtney Williamson On EduProtocols Plus: tinyurl.com/yzmmrtcj

When students know content vocabulary terms, they can hold more ideas in their minds. That frees up their working memory so they can participate in discussions & make connections. @moler3031.bsky.social molersmusings.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/t... #EduProtocols #EduSky #sschat

Master Mined mesopotamia+ Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Hit 2rds of fast & curious #eduprotocols Master Mined mesopotamia from #emc2learning @mrmatera.bsky.social @meehanedu.bsky.social

Last week hit some broad introduction to the Middle East unit with deja voodoo, code breakers and map practice This week digging deeper into the Tigris and Euphrates, Nile River, Mesopotamia, & Ottoman Empire Hitting some Master Mined, Big Picture Pinpoint, Deja Voodoo All from #emc2learning

SWANA Geo today... Fast & Curious #eduprotocols paired with code breakers from #emc2learning 15min to gather Intel over the targets 10min to decode the intel as a team Share out as a class @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social

Started off our Middle East unit w/heavy rds of fast & curious #eduprotocols.. most classes grew btw 20-30% after the 2nd Rd Then moved on to a close reading activity from #emc2learning w/deja voodoo over an introduction reading hit 3rds .. @meehanedu.bsky.social @mrmatera.bsky.social

Putting together a rough draft of my lesson plan coming off of spring break this Monday It's a good mix of #eduprotocols & #emc2learning We'll be starting our Middle East unit... The students will be developing next level literacy & daily spaced practice review Finishing these last weeks 💪