Idea-Quiet Critters - when you decide it's important for students to be quiet, pass out the quiet critters. Take them away from students who talk. At the end of the activity anyone who still has a quiet critter gets a prize, point, whatever you use.
Class Pet: Quiet Critters want to sit on your desk, see what you're doing, and get smarter. (Could remove them from the chatty students; those who still have their "critter" at the end of the "quiet" time could turn it in for a small reward.
Noise monitoring with technology! Use this website to quiet down your class! The balls bounce when there is quite a bit of noise in the room. The challenge is to get the balls to settle down or stop moving completely.
Visual aide to display when kids are in group work: green=great volume control, yellow= volume is getting too loud, red= volume is WAY too loud . they have 1 min to correct or consequences get handed out.
Wonderful video lesson to teach children the difference between tattling and reporting. You are not the only one that has a hard time explaining the difference! Even big kids don't know the difference. Could be great for anti-bullying