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Seasonal Spotlight: Let’s Talk Turkey!

Thanksgiving isn’t just about the turkey—it’s also about savoring the leftovers! At EMC² Learning, we’re serving up a hearty helping of our favorite seasonal activities to keep your students engaged and your lesson plans fresh all fall long. Hungry for more? give a click!

Try a Peer Review Switcheroo

Looking to add some life and energy to your next peer review day? Get your students writing and reading about ANY topic you can imagine with any one of the brand new resources in EMC² Learning’s Story Dice Switcheroo collection, and your next lesson plan is ready to roll!

Beyond Classcraft: Playful Learning with a Purpose

On a quest for resources that can bring the same epic spirit of fun and excitement in your classroom in the wake of Classcraft’s closure? Give a click to explore EMC² Learning and discover just a few of the treasures that our platform has to offer learners of every age.

Loot Lifters Lifts Collaboration to New Heights

Lift students’ spirits with this all new lineup of resources from EMC² Learning. With Loot Lifters, an ordinary STEM challenge becomes a team-against-team race to retrieve various far-flung treasures scattered about your classroom. Your students will be hooked!

S.T.E.M. Camp Commandos Are Reporting for Duty

S.T.E.M. Camp Commandos is an action-packed lineup of STEM challenges that put problem-solving, creativity, and teamwork to the test! From land to sea and air, each themed collection comes fully loaded with five unique STEM activities your students will love.

Leader Badges Amplify the Awesome

Empower your students with customizable Leader Badges! Whether they’re mastering teamwork, creativity, or problem-solving, these badges celebrate every victory. Tailor them to your classroom goals and watch students rise to the challenge, one badge at a time!

No Lies Detected: Celebrate Campaign Season

Campaign season is here! Whether you lean red, blue, or in between, the truth often lies in shades of gray. Bring that same spirit of lively debate and tall tales into your classroom, fostering passionate discussions that ignite curiosity and critical thinking!

Track Attack is Ready to Roll

Go from zero to sixty in less than a minute with a new school twist on a classic “teacher makes up the questions on the fly” review that will have your students racing with delight! Zero prep for teachers. One hundred percent engagement from students.

Supercharge Your Syllabus with a Story

As the new school year kicks off, there’s no better time to breathe life into your syllabus and engage your students like never before right from those critically important first days of class. If you’re looking for a new approach, have we got a *story* for you!

800+ Resources (and Counting)!!!

Eight hundred resources and counting — EMC² Learning is on a roll with all sorts of new and creative activities to inspire and engage students (and teachers) in any classroom. Give a click to take a peek behind the curtain and see what we’re all about.

Lesson Planning Gold

Go for the gold! Whether you’re celebrating the sprit of Paris or simply looking for some new ideas to get your students in the game for this school year — EMC² Learning has got you covered with an adrenaline-pumping collection of teaching resources.

Level Up Learning with Leaderboards

Legendary Leaderboards are your ultimate resource for themed classroom competitions. From the mystical Realm of Renown to the spooky scoreboard in the world of Ghostly Greats, each leaderboard is designed to engage and inspire students to level up their learning.

Collaborate, Create and Conquer with Guild Builders

Prepare to conquer student apathy with Guild Builders! This epic classroom activity fosters teamwork, strategic thinking, and all kinds of student-centered creativity. Level up your skill trees, unlock tech tracks, and let the cascading power-up mechanics flow!

Hexagon Hunters are Here

The average board game can last upwards of two full hours or more, and millions of gamers of all ages can’t get enough! But keeping students’ interest in class is a different story. So what if we turned our entire lesson plan into a living, breathing board game?

Take Your Summer PD Poolside

Summer is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and set new goals for the upcoming one. Reading poolside allows you to combine relaxation with professional growth, ensuring you return to the classroom rejuvenated and ready to inspire. Ready to dive in?

Techniques > Technologies. Every. Single. Time.

First Jamboard, then Classcraft, and now Microsoft Flip!?! Say it ain’t so, edtech! The sudden disappearance of these cutting edge classroom tech tools can wreak havoc on educators everywhere. Here’s why EMC² Learning puts technique before technology, every time.

Reality TV Roundups Make Any Lesson Must-See

In the Reality TV Roundups collection, the only thing more exciting than student-centered creativity is the *drama* that awaits. Pupils become producers with the chance to re-cast their favorite TV shows with brand new celebrity stars inspired by your course!

Lesson Plan Layouts Level Up Your Slideshow

Cooking up efficient and aesthetically pleasing presentations can take all kinds of time! That’s why we here at EMC² Learning have whipped up more than a dozen Lesson Plan Layouts for teachers to enjoy. Think of it like a box cake mix for your next slideshow…

Get Animated with NPC Cutscenes

Welcome to a new dimension of teaching innovation with EMC² Learning’s action-packed NPC Cutscenes! Transform your slideshow into an immersive learning environment reminiscent of old-school video games where every activity seamlessly connects to an epic journey.

Turn Your Next Review Day into a Block Party

Looking to help students develop a keener eye for detail as they spot check literally HUNDREDS of work products generated by their classmates? Repetition and consistency is the name of the game with Tower Topplers — an all new lineup of review day activities!

Load Up Your Memory Banks with Storage Wars

In the market for a helping hand to help break up the horde of information that inevitably piles up as your students cram to review for the end of the school year? Check out these all new activities to help them discover creative ways to unpack all the good stuff!

Take It Outside and Celebrate Earth Day

The sun is shining! The plants are in bloom! And Spring is in full swing all over which can only mean one thing… our students are getting antsy and counting down the days until the end of the school year. Looking to beat that boredom? Let’s take it outside!

Smash Fourth Quarter Boredom

Do you have what it takes to harness the power of the mightiest elemental forces that the world has ever known? Prepare to unleash all sorts of student-centered excitement with SKILL TREE SMASHERS, a brand new review day activity from EMC² Learning. Give a click!

EMC² Learning Honored by PAECT

Exciting news! This year, the good people at PAECT honored EMC² Learning’s own John Meehan with their prestigious Friend of PAECT award for his groundbreaking work in student engagement and classroom gamification. Give a click to check out the full story.

You’re in Luck for Last Minute St. Pat’s Lesson Plans

St. Patrick’s Day is On Its Way! For classes around the world, that can only mean one thing: the Luck of the Irish is in full bloom as we celebrate the Luckiest Day of the Year. Make other teachers green with envy with all sorts of spirited St. Pat’s activities!

EMC² Learning Awarded International Spotlight Honors

After a rigorous and extensive process of review from a field of nearly 200 submissions, EMC² Learning is thrilled to finally announce that we’ve been recognized as one of HundrED’s 12 Global Spotlight innovations in the field of classroom gamification!

Celebrating 3 Years and 700+ Resources

Three years ago, EMC² Learning opened its doors with a crazy dream and a simple premise: provide teachers with 24/7 access to an endless supply of high quality, low prep activities to help foster a more student-centered style of instruction. Look how far we’ve come!

R.I.P. ClassCraft

This week, teachers everywhere received the long-dreaded and devastating news that the original ClassCraft would be sunsetting at the close of the 2024 school year. So what does this mean for gamified classrooms? And how might EMC² Learning be able to help?

12 Ways for Teachers to Use Wrapping Paper in Any Classroom

As we reach the epic finale of the festive season and embrace the excitement of the New Year, EMC² Learning is rolling out all kinds of clever resources to help teachers infuse creativity into their classrooms — and it all starts with post-holiday wrapping paper sales!

Low Prep + Oversized Maps = MASSIVE Engagement

Let students take control of your classroom as you transform any ordinary lesson plan into a larger than life game of command and conquer! In Territory Takedown, bigger is better and the action is epic in every sense of the word. Give a click to explore this collection.

Fall in Love with Seasonal Teaching Resources

Fall is officially upon us! And as the crisp autumn air sweeps in, EMC² Learning is excited to embrace the vibrant colors and cozy moments that come with this beautiful season. And if you’re an Engagement Engineer? Now’s the time to “fall” in love with playful learning.

Get Your Students Cookin’ with an All New Way to Play

With their heaping menus and healthy portion sizes, retro diners really do offer a little bit of something for everyone. And that’s why we’ve decided to turn up the heat in our proverbial teacher test kitchen and “fire up” a brand new classroom resource called Order up!

Go “All In” for Student-Centered Instruction

This week, EMC² Learning’s activity rollout features a bevy of creative and clever new ways to play in classrooms of any age. We’ve got a wealth of playful pedagogical approaches featuring everything from digital spinners to plastic poker chips to… paper coffee cups!?

Capture the Fantasy Football Excitement in Your Classroom

Professional football is the single most-watched sport in the USA. And thanks to the interactive appeal of fantasy sports, the NFL is even bigger today than ever before! So what might it look like if we brought that same level of fun and excitement into our classrooms?

Meet Your New Instructor for the ISTE Summer Learning Academy

Can’t make it to the ISTE conference in Philadelphia this summer (or simply can’t wait to get a jump on all things ISTE before the big event)?! Not to worry. The ISTE Summer Learning Academy offers educators the chance to access top-quality PD from their homes!

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