No-fire S’mores
S’mores… Presenting a few alternative cooking methods, because you can’t build a campfire in your classroom. Though you may have a Bunsen burner. But you didn’t get that idea from us.
Articles by Teachnet Staff
No-Bake Cookies: Haystacks
These cute cookies are delicious and look just like tiny haystacks.
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Oat Drop Cookies
Soft cocoa, peanut butter and oatmeal cookies, cooked on the stovetop.
Crunchy Peanut Butter Chews
These crunchy-chewy candies are a perfect Halloween treat to share with your class. Note that the recipe calls for the ingredients to come to a boil on a cooktop.
No-Bake Oatmeal Bars
These no-bake oatmeal bars are pressed into a 9″ square baking dish and refrigerated. Mix and match ingredients to create a yummy “granola bar.”
Applesauce “Cookie” Ornaments
A simple dough that dries to create aromatic hanging ornaments. Please note that these items are not intended to be eaten, even though they smell good enough!
No-Bake Cookies: Snowballs
A delicious chocolaty-coconut cookie recipe that is classroom friendly. Requires melted butter.
No-Cook: Peppermint Candies
These no-bake Peppermint Candies could also pass as “cookies” if you stretch your imagination a bit.
No-Bake Recipe: Orange Balls
No-bake cookies made from orange juice concentrate and vanilla wafers.
Work-at-home: Getting Parents Involved
Learning can and should take place in the home; the problem is how to implement it. You can jump-start the process once a week by sending home a “Work-at-Home” worksheet with each student giving both the student and the parent a job to do.
Parents as Teachers: Getting Parents Involved
The first step in involving parents in the education process is to remember they are there. We often get focused on our job and forget that parents could be a valuable time-saving resource. Changing your perspective means brainstorming a way to have them help.
View the news with a parent
Students view local television news programs with their parents to analyze content and discuss current issues. Ask students to write with their parents comments on their discussion to be later shared in class.
My Own Self
Have students create a short auto-biographical essay or list of personal facts, then decorate it with a photo and a fingerprint. You can guarantee that no two will be the same.
Career Development For All Students
Career development activities in elementary, intermediate, and secondary grades become a crystal ball to the future. Students can have a reason for education and can develop a direction once they see a future, once they have a light at the end of the tunnel. Integrating careers into ALL classrooms is simple but it does mean making a paradigm shift from always educating for education’s sake to educating for employment/careers.
DIY Kites
Kites are a welcome outdoor project after being cooped up inside all winter, right? In fact, they’re the perfect celebration of the end of winter. Students study and create their kites indoors, and then you just wait for the ideal weather to take them out for testing. For the younger students, try a quick and easy Paper Bag Kite. Older students can tackle the Tetrahedral Kite, which can be scaled for a large or small format creation.