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		<title>End of Year Activites, Lesson Plans, Printables, Worksheets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 year.  There are 18 activities separated by grade level, and includes activities appropriate for 1st through 3rd grades. A huge set of activities from the lesson plans page.  There are over 30 lesson plans, worksheets, and printables separated by subject.  It is mostly elementary school but there are a few middle school and high school activities for the end of the year. Do you need worksheets and printables for the end of the year?  This page has 16 printable worksheets and activities that will fit within any elementary school end-of-year lesson plans. This article has some great ideas for end-of-year activities if you are just looking for fun activities to add to your own lesson plans For middle school and high school, here is a lesson plan with some fun, quick, online research ideas. And finally, this lesson plan idea talks about an autographed bulletin board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Plan-It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can tell, I&#8217;ve been pretty focused on my lesson plan search engine lately.  I&#8217;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 at those results. I&#8217;ve called the page &#8220;Search Plan-It&#8221; and I want to tell you a little bit about it. My wife and I have had such a great response to our search engine that we have decided to design a full-featured search engine just for lesson plans.  We have been calling it &#8220;Search Plan-It&#8221;, and have enlisted an old Marching Mizzou friend to help with the programming side of things.  It&#8217;s been an exciting, frustrating, and educational experience all at once. Our goal for launch is April of this year.  So apologies for not posting to Lesson Upgrades as regularly as I have been, but something exciting is coming. Search Plan-It will be a one-of-a-kind search engine dedicated exclusively to finding lesson plans.  It is made by teachers for teachers.  Quick, simple, and easy.  That has been our focus. Every teacher I have talked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Your Students Conduct a Better Google Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is great, but we all get frustrated at times when we just can&#8217;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 Dan Pink in A Whole New Mind.  How can your kids make connections amongst patterns of information if they struggle with basic internet search? Part of the answer can be found in this great article from lifehacker, which gives advice on what you should do when Google doesn&#8217;t give you what you want.  What&#8217;s a good query?  How do you use the &#8220;around&#8221; function?  What about site-specific search? If you are not comfortable teaching your kids about these tools, then you really should take a few minutes and read this article before sharing it with your kids. I know that for my students this article will be required reading before we hit the lab! The Best Ways to Tweak Your Search When Google Doesn&#8217;t Give You What You Want. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Software training online-tutorials for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple &amp; more</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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 and some are asking for their students. But either way you can use this resource.  It will guide you or your kids through just about any piece of software they should know. So no more excuses!  Get your kids out to the computer lab and let them loose! Software training online-tutorials for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple &#38; more. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Draw and Fold Over: Dan Pink&#8217;s Play and Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s the digital version.  Just click on &#8220;Start a New One&#8221; and your kids are off. What would I use it for?  I always have kids who get done early in the computer lab.  Instead of fighting them to keep off of the game sites, I think I will have them develop their Design aptitude.  Plus when I did it, it seemed an awful lot like Play! Draw and Fold Over. Share]]></description>
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		<title>10 Evernote Tips For School – Dan Pink&#8217;s Symphony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 pattern out of the chaos.  I think this article gives us one method of enhancing our aptitude of Symphony, and also provides us an opportunity to pass along some good advice to students of our own. Take 2-3 minutes and read this article.  I really found it enlightening.  I felt as if I was reading a top secret document on the minds of the millenials.  This is how the newest generation is using our technology.  Their iPhones keep track of everything, thanks in part to the Evernote app. But the really unique thing is that Evernote doesn&#8217;t care what medium you use.  Snap a picture of your car, record a verbal memo, or save a text.  It all gets stored in Evernote.  And to add another element, you can take advantage of the GPS positioning in the iPhone to help you remember what you did where. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Teen Experiences Affect Your Brain for Life &#8211; Newsweek</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;adult&#8221;-like actions that we expect from teenagers, like thinking about consequences for their action, are not connected and developed yet within their brain structures. And even more alarmingly, our brains may be permanently affected by trauma that we receive as adolescents.  So if our kids are getting picked on or bullied, not only are there the immediate and long-term psychological effects, there are actual physical effects that can be passed down to the next generation.  Yes &#8211; There is evidence that the brain adapts to high school drama and changes its physical structure.  Then when that victim of bullying has kids of their own, they pass down DNA that creates the same physical brain traits that resulted from the parents&#8217; high school experience. Wow!  I always kept an eye on my kids for signs of bullying or other abuse, but I always did it for their own sake.  Now I know that not only am I protecting my students, I am protecting their children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Pink&#8217;s Story Aptitude as a Marketing Career Skill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. I ran into this article while surfing for news.  What struck me was that as a social studies teacher I can still develop career skills.  I have always balked at teaching &#8220;vocational&#8221; skills in my history class.  After all, how can I find the time to teach outside my direct curriculum? But with a few simple upgrades, I can make that happen and not lose any valuable time.  And that&#8217;s great news! Take a few minutes and read through this business-based interpretation of Story.  Then skim through the examples of Story Upgrades here on this blog.  I think you&#8217;ll agree, we can all help our students prepare for their future without sacrificing any content from our curriculum. How to Captivate Your Audience with Story From America&#8217;s Greatest Living Playwright &#124; Copyblogger. Share]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Geography, Help Those In Need-Dan Pink&#8217;s Meaning and Play in the Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 is a win-win. Basically you go to the site and play a game in which you label cities and points of interest around the world.  The faster and closer you get to the actual city, the more cups of water you donate.  If you would like more info, go to their FAQ page and check out the details. Take a few minutes and play this game.  I found a 10-minute period of free time and tried it myself.  Give it a shot.  How many glasses of water can you donate?  What if we took our classes into the lab and had them play this game a few times at the end of the hour?  What if it was just an &#8220;extra&#8221; for those kids who get done early in the lab?  How many glasses of water could we donate as a group? Teachers have a powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson Planning using S.M.A.R.T. Objectives and Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy. Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Curt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 always try to make as an action statement.  What do I want my students to be able to do after the lesson is over. Two useful tools for creating an effective objective are application of the S.M.A.R.T. model and Bloom&#8217;s Taxonomy.  Then after the objective is set, I start to look at how to achieve the objective, and then how to upgrade that objective to include one or more of Dan Pink&#8217;s AWNM aptitudes. For this first post, let&#8217;s just look at setting student objectives. Step 1: Setting Your Objective I really think this is the hardest part of lesson planning.  But putting in the effort on this part will make the rest go smoothly. I always start with a question:  &#8220;What do I want my students to be able to do after the lesson?&#8221; Should they be able to identify five Middle East countries from [...]]]></description>
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