Category: EzPz Hacks

Lab Teams, Table Jobs, and Group Work That Doesn’t Drive Me Nuts

Group work in middle school science sounds great… in theory. Collaboration! Communication! Peer learning! But anyone who’s actually handed out a group task to a room full of hormonal humans knows how quickly “teamwork” can turn into chaos. Over the years, though, I’ve found a way to make lab teams, table jobs, and group work…
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5-Minute Fixes That Make My Classroom Run Smoother

Let’s be real… middle school science is organized chaos on a good day. Between rogue glue sticks, mysteriously missing pencils, and lab directions that somehow vanish from student brains the minute they start, it can feel like you’re barely hanging on. But over the years, I’ve discovered that a few small tweaks (ones that take…
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Batching Lessons Saved My Sanity: How I Plan 4 Weeks at Once

Let’s be real: planning one week at a time feels a lot like trying to cook dinner while your kitchen’s on fire. You’re dodging emails, managing behavior, and tweaking tomorrow’s lesson during lunch. For years, that was me, barely keeping up, always scrambling. Then I discovered batching. And I will never go back. What is…
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Lab Teams, Table Jobs, and Group Work That Doesn’t Drive Me Nuts