March kicks off with Read Across America week. Have your students create their own bookmarks in Wixie to celebrate.

Creating bookmarks is fun for students and can be a powerful performance task for comprehension and retelling. 

Wixie makes it easy to create bookmarks with a template students can open on their own. 

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Timelines are a great way to have students summarize events in history or even retell a story. Wixie makes creating timelines easy and fun with built-in templates, movable text boxes and tails, and powerful imaging tools.

From All About Me timelines, to historical figures, to events in a story, timelines are a great way to have students organize and sequence information.

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Seventh-grade students are asked to "use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions." While they may be able to solve these equations, they don't often make the connection between abstract algebra formulas and the world outside the classroom.

Use this 13-page Wixie activity to provide a real-world context for using algebraic equations as students are given parameters and asked to price jewelry based on the algebraic expression they write.

Editor's Note: This blog is the sixth in a series of posts from former math specialist Scott Loomis. In these posts, he shares more about the real world math templates he has created for Wixie and outlines how you can use and modify them for your own awesome performance tasks. You can read the backstory on his experience and expertise below.

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"I love the sweet, expectant nothingness of an empty page."
              - Peter H. Reynolds

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Every student, and possibly teacher, dreams of a snow day... until it’s time to make those days up later. Because Wixie works online, students can use it on computers or tablets connected to the Internet. If they have access at home, there is no need to stop learning on a snow day!

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