DOK 0: Reflecting on My Lesson Today

by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | DOK, Lesson Design

DOK, Depth of Knowledge, is the 4 levels of critical thinking. DOK 1 is recall, memorize, follow an algorithm. Honestly, the majority of the math book is simply DOK 1. Here is the rule or formula. Here is an example. Do 30 just like it. That is low critical thinking....

Author @MelSideB Shows How Visual Medium Increases Student Engagement!

by guest | Jul 2, 2020 | EdTech Tool, Guest Post, Lesson Design

By Guest Blogger Melissa Sidebotham, Co-author of the graphic novel The Lab Coat Kids: Monster In The Hall So Much Fun & Learning Was Happening! Six years ago, my Co-author, Jennifer Reagan, and I came up with a crazy idea. Jennifer is a former kindergarten...

National Geographic Educator Resources

by admin | Oct 13, 2019 | Intermediate, Lesson Design, National Geographic

National Geographic for Teachers I Love Real Data!!! My typical joke is “Who is Bob and why is he carrying 40 watermelons?” As a math teacher pretty much the entire textbook is “who cares?” it’s hard to engage students with contrived word...

The Office is on Fire – Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration

by admin | Oct 5, 2019 | Google, Lesson Design, Slides, templates

ELA Lesson: Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration The art of the lesson plan is knowing your students and creating an engaging lesson for the students you actually teach. This is the problem with pre-made lessons from the publisher, they don’t know your students. An...

PBL: Mount Everest and the Global Water Supply

by admin | Oct 4, 2019 | Lesson Design

National Geographic creates and shares so many amazing resources for educators it is mind boggling. I was privileged to participate in the National Geographic Educator Summit #NatGeoEdSummit where one of the many things shared was about their research at Mount...

Sparking Curiosity to Engage Students in Learning with @MarciaMentor

by erin | Feb 26, 2019 | Collaboration, Lesson Design, Student Projects

What are you curious about? What questions do you have? A Guest Post by Marcia Carrillo Based on the work of @ramusallam These are the questions I was asked after watching a Verizon commercial, in which a bicyclist rides throughout San Francisco and his path is...