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TRICK OR TREAT! Ready for a sweet upgrade to an everyday review activity? We’ve got the PERFECT way for your students to show what they

Early in our respective teaching careers, we came to the all-important realization that you don’t get into education to make money: you get into education

BACK TO SCHOOL DRAFTING TABLE Welcome back to another exciting school year! While it might yet be a stretch to call this partially masked, partially

Hey folks! John here. And today I’d like to share some insider secrets from the work we do here at EMC² Learning. Each week, Michael

Looking for a creative way to get your students excited to hit the ground running with the start of the 2021 school year? We are

Any course. Any content area. Any grade level. Far too often, those first days of class are invariably the same. Awkward icebreakers. Forced introductions. A

Time to let the cat out of the bag! It was sixteen weeks ago when we opened the doors to EMC² Learning. But what you

Looking to get your students to do a bit of creative writing? Want your room to be filled with the sound of excited explorers? We

Happy Teacher Appreciation week! As working classroom teachers, we know how hard it can be to maintain serious momentum right up through the last day

EMC² Learning’s Sundown Showdown arrives on the scene with a full “season” of 12 different stand-alone activities, all wrapped together in a cleverly themed “camp

Side Quests are an amazing feature of many gamified classrooms. And while these optional assignments aren’t quite the same as traditional “extra credit,” they are

At EMC² Learning, our mission is to help schools engage at the speed of life. But that’s not just the speed of our student’s lives. Around

What would happen if you found yourself in possession of the long lost cell phone that was once owned by one of the most celebrated

Text Quest is a plug-and-play pedagogy that can quickly be adapted to any course or content area. In short: it’s lightning fast Gamification 101 —

LET’S GET MESSY! In case you haven’t already had the pleasure to see student artwork in action: Sketchnoting can be a powerful tool in any teacher’s

We know how great it feels to be cheering for your home team. And whether your students are playing in the room or on the

Here at EMC² Learning, we play a lot of games. No for real. Like, a LOT of games. And while all of this playtesting might

IT’S TOURNAMENT TIME! Why sit on the sidelines when you can get your classes in the game? March bracket tournaments have transformed a once-passive sea

“No one deserves to be forgotten.” – @DearEvanHansen What a perfect way to cap off the #CEC2020 weekend than with a show about inclusion, empathy,

PS: Dig this comic book-like presentation? It’s a fully editable Google Slides template, and just one of the hundreds of resources already available to our

When Walt opened the Disneyland Theme Park in 1955, he envisioned creating a place where everyone could come and be playful together. A far cry

In eXPlore Like a Pirate, Michael wrote at length about the problem of what he likes to call “The Jeopardy Effect.” Chances are if you’ve

Here at EMC², we’ve developed a sort of reputation for being pretty big geeks for all things game-inspired. Michael’s Explore Like a Pirate: Gamification and Game-Inspired

From Crossfit to Orange Theory and just about every trendy new workout craze in between, we’ve noticed a pretty clear trend. Muscle Confusion is actually,

Trick or treat! Well ok, not really. But the EMC² Traps & Treasures pedagogy is one clever disguise for some serious learning! And it’s an amazing

Imagine that you’ve just been hired by the hottest toy company on the planet, and you’ve been put in charge of a top secret assignment

Picture this: you’re shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, and you and your teammates must race against the clock while outwitting, outplaying, and outlasting

In March of 2019, John posted a short video to his Twitter account of a training activity he’d used for a group of teachers to

Imagine that you’ve just been hired by a major software company, and you’ve been put in charge of a top secret assignment for a next-generation

Picture this: It’s the end of a unit and your class has the entire period to keep the lesson running smoothly by recapping everything that

Hey folks! John here. My 11th-grade English students loved escape room activities in class. But I was bugged by the fact that not every student

Flipping through a deck of playing cards are one of the easiest ways to randomize all sorts of items in the classroom. Whether you’re breaking