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Why Setting SMART Goals Blows New Year’s Resolutions Out of the Water
New year, new you, right? There’s no time like the present to make this year your best one yet. But before we go too crazy with the usual parade of well-meaning but quickly forgotten resolutions… let’s take closer look at the power and promise of SMART goals.
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Yearbook Bonanza
Pomp and circumstances are waiting! Turn a full year of content into a yearbook worthy of the ages. Students collaborate to create graduation speeches, superlatives, memorable moments, team spotlights, favorite quotes, and more while showcasing everything they’ve learned.
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Talk Around the Clock: Encore! Encore!
The Talk Around the Clock: Encore transforms end-of-year reflection into a creative celebration where students revisit inspiration, artistic growth, self-expression, and future goals through structured conversations designed to spotlight creativity and personal growth.
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Silly Superlatives
Turn your end of year review into a hilarious yearbook-style challenge! With this fully editable slide deck, students award superlatives to people, places, events, concepts, inventions, and characters from class—then defend every funny choice with real content knowledge.
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Talk Around the Clock: All-Star Team Share Out
Talk Around the Clock: All-Star Team Share Out transforms reflection into a high-energy celebration where students reflect on teamwork, perseverance, growth, and personal accomplishments through structured conversations that feel like a championship postgame interview.
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Talk Around the Clock: Students Make History
EMC² Learning’s historic spin on Talk Around the Clock transforms civics review into a fast-paced conversation experience where students revisit memorable events, analyze ideas, make modern-day connections, and reflect on the lessons history can teach us moving forward.
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Murph 2026: You Deserve More Than Easy
Last year, Murph taught me about community. This year, a 20-pound weighted vest taught me about mindfulness. Today’s post is a reflection on slowing down, embracing obstacles, and why the most powerful lessons often come one rep, one paragraph, and one idea at a time.
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Talk Around the Clock: Math
“Add” a playful review to your repertoire! Talk Around the Clock: Math transforms math review into a fast-paced conversation experience where students revisit problem solving, reasoning, perseverance, and real-world applications through structured partner discussions.
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Talk Around the Clock: Science
Experiment with Talk Around the Clock: Science to transform your science review into a fast-paced conversation experience where students revisit discoveries, lab days, analysis, and real-world connections through structured partner discussions, movement, and reflection.
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Talk Around the Clock: English Language Arts
The Talk Around the Clock: English Language Arts variant helps teachers transform review into a fast-paced conversation experience where students revisit reading, writing, research, and communication skills through structured partner discussions, movement, and reflection.
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Don’t Sleep on June’s Blink-and-You’ll-Miss-It-Visit to ISTE
Flying into Orlando and back home the very same day, EMC² Learning is heading to ISTE Live ’26 for a whirlwind session on playful pedagogy, gamification, and authentic engagement. Fast trip. Big ideas. Zero guessing games. Join the fast-paced fun and let’s get our game on!
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Talk Around the Clock: Pit Crew Rapid Review
Talk Around the Clock: Pit Crew Rapid Review transforms your peer feedback into a fast-paced workshop experience where students rotate through structured conversations focused on strengths, clarity, revision, and reflection to help projects cross the finish line stronger.
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Talk Around the Clock: End of Year Review
Talk Around the Clock: End of Year Review transforms that ho-hum reflection day into a fast-paced conversation experience where students revisit memories, celebrate growth, reflect on challenges, and look ahead to the future using structured partner discussions. Game on!
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Talk Around the Clock
Talk Around the Clock transforms ordinary classroom presentations into fast-paced, movement-based conversations! Students rotate through structured partner discussions focused on process, product, reflection, and transfer while building speaking confidence and connection.
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Mini Model Melee: Adventure
Grab your gear and prepare for a race into the unknown! In this adventure-themed edition of Mini Model Melee, student explorers construct daring discoveries, survive booby traps, and outmaneuver rival expedition crews in a fast-paced hunt for glory and hidden secrets.
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Mini Model Melee: Super Heroes
KA-POW! The city is under attack, and only student squads can save the day! In this comic book-inspired edition of Mini Model Melee, teams build heroic creations, unleash chaotic power cards, and battle rival crews in an action-packed showdown of creativity and strategy.
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Mini Model Melee: Hacker
Boot up the chaos and enter the ever-changing digital battlefield! In this hacker-themed edition of Mini Model Melee, student crews build tech-inspired creations, deploy disruptive sabotage cards, and outcode rival teams in a fast-paced clash of creativity and strategy.
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Mini Model Melee: Pirate
Suit up for a high-stakes construction showdown among the stars! In this outer space edition of Mini Model Melee, student crews engineer cosmic creations, collect powerful sabotage cards, and battle rival teams for galactic glory in a fast-paced race across the universe.
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Mini Model Melee: Medieval
Raise thy banners and enter the realm of Mini Model Melee! In this medieval-themed edition of EMC² Learning’s hands-on favorite, student kingdoms construct mighty creations, unleash chaotic sabotage cards, and battle rival clans for honor, glory, and control of the realm.
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Mini Model Melee: Ninja
Silent minds. Swift builds. Total mayhem. With a ninja-themed spin on the Mini Model Melee gameplay, student clans race to construct stealthy creations, unleash sneaky sabotage cards, and outmaneuver rival dojos in a fast-paced battle of strategy, skill, and teamwork.
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Mini Model Melee: Haunted
Something strange is creeping through the classroom. In this spooky haunted hijinks edition of Mini Model Melee, student teams will scare up creepy creations, trigger terrifying sabotage cards, and survive a chaotic clash filled with ghosts, ghouls, and monstrous mayhem.
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Mini Model Melee: Space
Suit up for a high-stakes construction showdown among the stars! In this outer space edition of Mini Model Melee, student crews engineer cosmic creations, collect powerful sabotage cards, and battle rival teams for galactic glory in a fast-paced race across the universe.
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Mini Model Melee: Survival
Crash-landed and running low on supplies, students must build fast, think creatively, and survive the chaos in this deserted island edition of Mini Model Melee! Earn rewards, unlock wild sabotage cards, and outlast rival crews in a battle for survival. Ready to dive in?!
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Mini Model Melee
Build fast, think creatively, and survive the chaos in Mini Model Melee! In this fast-paced team challenge, students use mini models to represent learning, earn rewards, collect sabotage cards, and out-build rivals in a wildly engaging battle of strategy and creativity.
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Write On Track
All aboard! Write on Track challenges students to construct an ever-expanding chain of connected academic vocabulary tied to a fixed central topic. With every new word, students must think critically, justify connections, and stay on track so their route can keep growing.
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99 (Word) Problems
If you’re looking for word problems, we’ve got news for you, son: we’ve got 99 (Word) Problems, and every one is fun! Ninety Nine (Word) Problems challenges your students to channel their inner emcee as they remix higher order mathematical thinking into ANY content area.
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Spring Cleaned and Faster Than Ever
Fresh paint. Faster pathways. And a brighter experience from top to bottom? Say more! After the biggest behind-the-scenes overhaul in EMC² Learning history, the dust has settled and the “pedagogy theme park” is up and running cleaner, quicker, and better than ever before.
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Dog Tag Details
Students report for duty in Dog Tag Details, a military-inspired protocol where squads compress big ideas into sharp, tactical summaries. Using a structured intel format, teams identify critical concepts, defend their decisions, and prove they’re ready for deployment.
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Cosmic Collectors
Launch into a galaxy of discovery! In this team-against-team mission, “Cosmic Collectors” chart their findings using graphic organizers and anchor charts, uncovering insights from any text along the way. The deeper you explore, the more powerful your collection becomes!
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Force Finders
Do your students have what it takes to become One with The Force? The Universe is calling for heroes across all grades, subject areas, and content strands to join together and discover the mystical ties that bind our galaxy together. Tap into your creative side to play!
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Two Bases and a Bounty Hunter
Will the Force of social deduction be with you? Expose enemy agents before time expires as two opposing bases clash with a bounty hunter playing both sides. Alliances shift fast and nothing is guaranteed—making this the perfect activity for persuasion and quick thinking!
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Pathways to the Past
Grab your gear: Pathways to the Past sends students back through prior units to uncover connections from previous units that still matter today! Build chains, test ideas, and see how today’s learning links to everything that came before. How far back can your team go?
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Forbidden Figures
What happens when a letter disappears? Chaos reigns in Forbidden Figures, where random letters become taboo! Conjure up all sorts of creativity, precision, and deeper thinking in a fast-paced laugh-out-loud challenge that turns a simple review into serious brain work.
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Microlab Quartet
Go big with Microlab QUARTET! Scale the conversation up to four voices, giving students structured turns while preparing them for larger group dialogue. Built-in 30–90 second timers help teachers grow speaking stamina as conversations expand toward full-group discussions.
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Microlab Duet
Scaffolding for the win! Microlab DUET adapts the original Microlab protocol for pairs, giving every student more speaking time and tighter dialogue. With built-in 30–90 second timers, teachers can easily build conversation stamina while upgrading everyday discussions.
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Five Card Chaos
Build the best poker hand before time runs out! In Five Card Chaos, teams complete classroom challenges to earn cards, then decide whether to keep their hand or gamble on an upgrade. Strategy, teamwork, and a little Wild West luck fuel this fast-paced classroom showdown.
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Rubber Band Raiders
The forest roads are crawling with (rubber) bands of rival raiders! Complete learning challenges to earn a rubber band raid, then let it fly at an opponent’s caravan. Knock down their treasure cards and claim the gold inside. When the dust settles, the richest guild wins!
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Build your teaching toolbox with practical, engaging professional learning designed for real classrooms. The Courses Only membership gives educators access to EMC² Learning’s growing collection of courses and Skill Builders focused on student engagement, gamification, creativity, classroom culture, and meaningful instructional design.
Each course is built to move beyond theory and into action, giving you classroom ready ideas, strategies, and examples you can immediately use with students. Whether you are looking to energize your lessons, improve participation, create stronger classroom experiences, or bring more creativity into your teaching, these courses are designed to help you level up your craft throughout the year.
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Need engaging classroom activities without the extra courses and training? The Resources Only membership gives you access to our growing library of classroom ready materials designed to save time while bringing more energy and interaction into your lessons.
These resources are built for real classrooms by real educators. From collaborative games and discussion structures to review activities, simulations, creative projects, and interactive templates, you will have a toolbox full of experiences that help students think deeply and stay actively involved in learning.
You bring the content knowledge. We provide the frameworks, templates, and engaging activity structures that help transform everyday lessons into memorable classroom moments.
Includes:
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- Interactive activity templates and lesson frameworks
- Gamified classroom experiences and challenges
- Student engagement strategies across subjects
- Ready to use downloads and teaching materials
- New resources added regularly
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From zero prep classroom activities to full gamified systems, every resource is built to help you create meaningful learning experiences without spending hours reinventing the wheel. Dive into strategies that increase participation, critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and joy in the classroom.
Whether you are just getting started or looking to completely transform your classroom culture, the All Access Pass gives you the tools, ideas, and inspiration to build learning experiences students will remember long after the lesson ends.
Includes:
- Full access to 1000+ classroom ready resources
- Access to all courses and Skill Builders
- Gamification systems and templates
- Downloadable classroom materials
- Creative lesson frameworks and activity ideas
- New resources added throughout the year
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