I know that for many of us the year is winding down. So I fired up our lesson plan search engine to find some lesson plans, printables, worksheets and other activities. End of Year Lesson Plans Activities and Worksheets: This is a great set of teacher-submitted elementary school activities for the end of the...
As you can tell, I’ve been pretty focused on my lesson plan search engine lately. I’ve been using the lesson plan search engine on this site to spice up my current lesson plans, and I have shared some Great Depression lesson plans on my Facebook Page if you would like to have a look...
Google is great, but we all get frustrated at times when we just can’t find what we want. And what about your students? If they are like mine, they try one search and then give up. I think that Google searching is an integral component of developing the aptitude of Symphony as described by...
Here’s a resource that I have been meaning to share with everyone. It is an archive of tutorials for many of the popular software programs that you will be wanting to teach your students. I know that on our search engine page many teachers have requested lesson plans on software. Some ask for themselves...
This looked like fun so I thought I should share. You remember that old game where you draw something on one half of the paper and then fold it over so someone else can draw and not see it? Well here’s the digital version. Just click on “Start a New One” and your kids...
So how do kids these days keep everything organized? Listen straight from the mouth of one college student who is offering advice on the app known as Evernote. When Dan Pink speaks of Symphony in A Whole New Mind, he refers specifically to the ability to take many seemingly disconnected thoughts and create a...
This is a great article that helped me to remember the unique situation of the students I teach every day. As research indicates, our brains are only about 80% complete by adolescence. So many of the “adult”-like actions that we expect from teenagers, like thinking about consequences for their action, are not connected and...
It seems that the field of marketing has embraced the right brain aptitude of Story. As Daniel Pink states in his book, A Whole New Mind, the future belongs to those who can utilize the skills of effective story-telling. It appears that marketers across the nation agree.
Learn Geography and donate water to those in need. What a great way to create Meaning by simulating the aptitude of Play, both of which are part of Dan Pink’s right-brain aptitudes from his book A Whole New Mind. Not to mention the reinforcement of effort and practice that are effective Marzano Strategies. This...
Recently one of our teacher-readers honored me by asking my opinion on writing lesson plans. What do I think should be included in an effective lesson plan? Well for what it is worth, here is my advice for creating effective lesson plans. The first thing I always start with is the objective, which I...
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