Create a fun and friendly classroom environment through positive classmate interactions. Students receive question cards with fun-to-discuss prompts. Students mix in the class, ask their classmates questions, and share their own responses. The activities are a great way to energize students, have fun, and get acquainted with their classmates. The activities transform the classroom from a group of strangers to a tight-knit classroom unit'the ideal environment for learning! Question topics include: Getting To Know You, Icebreakers, Sports, If..., and many more. You receive 20 sets of 20 question cards—400 in all. Question cards are also great for teambuilding, energizers, and brain breaks. 184 pages.

Keep everyone actively involved! Click a button to randomly select a student in the class by name. Spin a spinner to pick which teammate will share the team's answer. Roll a die to pick a student on each team to go first. Press Go and randomly select the next team to present. SelectorTools offers 15 attractive selectors: No Repeat Selector, Color Selector, Color Spinner, Name Selector, Next Team, Number Selector, Partner Picker Spinner, Role Assigner, Role Timer, Roll the Die, Student Selector Spinner, Student & Team Selector Spinners, Team Selector Spinner, Team Sequencer, and Who's Up? This collection of selectors will give you the tools you need to crank-up active engagement. Instead of calling on one student at a time, pick one student in each pair or team to answer or perform. With random selectors, anyone can be picked at any time, so tuning out is not an option. Pump up the interaction in your classroom and keep everyone involved. Selecting students and teams has never been so fun or easy. For PC and Mac.

Teambuilding activities are a great way to build positive student interactions and pave the way to successful teamwork on academic content. Teambuilding is a snap with these ready-to-copy question cards. Each team receives their own set of questions cards. Teammates ask and respond to questions they love to talk about. Question topics include: What Would You Do If?, Hobbies, Should Kids?, Getting Acquainted, and many more. There are 20 sets of 20 questions totaling 400 - plenty of content for quick and easy teambuilding activities all year around. Question cards are also great for classbuilding, energizers, and brain breaks. 176 pages.

In this class set, you receive double-sided mats. One side is a ManageMat. Each team places a ManageMat in the center of the team table. With a glance at their mats, students know every teammate's number (1 to 4). They know who is their Face Partner, Shoulder Partner, and Color Partner. And they know who's Partner A and Partner B each time they pair up. When you call for Student #3 on each team to stand, to start, or to collect the team materials, everyone knows exactly who needs to do what. When you tell students to pair up with their Face Partner and Partner A will solve the first problem and Partner B will coach, no one is confused. The other side is a Fan-N-Pick mat. Fan-N-Pick is a cooperative learning review structure students play using question or review cards on any topic. The mat leads students through this interactive structure, ensuring everyone keeps actively involved! No one tunes out so everyone learns. Manage team and pair interactions like a pro with the ManageMat. Create power-packed thinking and review sessions with the Fan-N-Pick Mat. Two awesome mats in one!

Skyrocket critical and creative questions in your classroom with carefully crafted questions. One of the most frequent and important thing teachers do is ask questions. In fact, teachers ask up to hundreds of questions per day. This easy-reference card is designed to help you ensure that your questions engage and develop your students’ multifaceted thinking skills. It includes a discussion of fat vs. skinny questions, high-consensus vs. low-consensus questions, and true vs. review questions. It overviews the importance of critical and creative questions, and links classroom questions to developing thinking skills. Inside, you will find over 100 re-usable question starters for 36 types of thinking. The question starters are great to enrich your questions and they’re terrific for the student-generated questioning activities described on the back. Keep this little SmartCard handy and remember Einstein’s advice, “The important thing is to never stop questioning.”

Imagine this: You are doing a PowerPoint? presentation and with one click, your whole screen turns into a huge hourglass to let your learners know how much time they have left to discuss an issue. Or, your class computer rings a "Time's Up!" alarm letting students know it's time to switch gears. Excitement mounts as your class or workshop participants race against the TimerTools stopwatch, attempting to break their prior record for a challenging task. It's all possible with TimerTools. TimerTools is the Swiss army knife for teachers and presenters: 18 essential tools in one! Whether you are presenting to a small class or a huge audience, TimerTools is your perfect solution for every presentation need: hourglass, analog clock, digital clock, alarm clock, multiple customizable alarms, seconds timer, countdown timer, spotlight timer, turn timer, interval timer, bar timer, task timer, preset timer, percent timer, color timer, digital stopwatch, analog stopwatch, and split stopwatch. Each attractive, scalable, customizable timer tool is super easy to use. Ideal for computer presentations or to turn your whole computer into a suite of powerful timing tools For PC and Mac.