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 | Classroom, GC - Intermediate, Google, Intermediate, 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...

Clip Up Chart in the Faculty Meeting

by admin | Feb 23, 2019 | Lesson Design

A tweet by Jon LeFevre indicated that a clip up chart was put up in a faculty meeting. Turns out, no surprise, the adults didn’t like it. So why are we doing this to kids? We utilized a clip chart with ADULTS during our training this morning. Turns out that...