Back To School
Why Your First Week of School Matters
The first week of school isn't about surviving icebreakers or making it through the syllabus. It’s not even really about teaching expectations like when kids should and shouldn’t ask to the go to the bathroom.
It's your first opportunity to show students that your classroom is truly different.
That this is a place where they'll solve problems, challenge ideas, take academic risks, and think deeply together.
These back-to-school experiences help you build that culture from Day One—so engagement isn't something you chase all year long. It's something you build a solid foundation for from the start.
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👉 Back-To-School Bundle
This bundle of resources includes:
👉 Hexagonal Thinking Icebreaker
Students create a visual representation of who they are and work together to uncover meaningful connections between classmates. This creative activity promotes discussion, collaboration, and critical thinking while creating a powerful classroom display.
👉 Investigate Your Teacher Inference Activity
Turn students into detectives as they gather clues, make claims, and support their thinking with evidence. This engaging activity builds classroom community while introducing inference, evidence, and critical thinking skills.
👉 Mission: Neo-Earth Survival Scenario
Challenge students to make difficult decisions about humanity's future in this collaborative critical-thinking activity.
👉Classroom Feud: Back-to-School Expectations Game
Teach classroom expectations through a fun, interactive game-show experience.
👉 Back-To-School ELA Escape Room
The mission:
The Summer Slide has gone too far...
Four Language Arts Memory Files have been corrupted.
Knowledge is disappearing.
And your students have been recruited as the newest Memory Archivists.
Only students who can communicate professionally, solve clues, and think critically will unlock each Memory File and restore the archive.