Holiday Projects
Digesting a Story - This lesson guides students through a lesson focused on setting and writing composition. You or even the class, bring in holiday props to create various settings in the classroom for students to incorporate into the lesson. This is a great way to work on those writing promts!
Christmas Timeline for Children - Students delve into research in this project as they discover the history and timeline of Christmas. Resources are provided but you can easily add as you see fit! The end product is the creation of a timeline. Students can use Notability, Pages, or Keynote to create this project.
How Much Will My Christmas List Cost? - In this project, students list everything they want for Christmas, estimate how much it will cost and then research the actual prices. Make it even more fun and limit the amount of funds students are allowed to spend! Place various amounts in a box on small sheets of paper and have each student draw for an amount. On the iPad, you would use Numbers or Google Sheets rather than Excel.
Acrostic Christmas Poems - This site offers a lesson (PPT) for Acrostic Poems. You will have to be creative for the poem activity but here is a suggested activity to follow the lesson:
1) Using Keynote, Have students create a slide for each letter of the word.
2) There are two options:
Option A - Students type the line of the poem on the slide with each letter.
Option B - Place a picture of the letter slide in iMovie. Students can then read each line over the image. The end product is a movie featuring their acrostic poem! If you want them to add images, please have them watch the video below before searching to ensure they are not stealing the images.
Made With Code - This site offers drag and drop coding for several activities such as fashion design, garden robot and music mixer.
Christmas Timeline for Children - Students delve into research in this project as they discover the history and timeline of Christmas. Resources are provided but you can easily add as you see fit! The end product is the creation of a timeline. Students can use Notability, Pages, or Keynote to create this project.
How Much Will My Christmas List Cost? - In this project, students list everything they want for Christmas, estimate how much it will cost and then research the actual prices. Make it even more fun and limit the amount of funds students are allowed to spend! Place various amounts in a box on small sheets of paper and have each student draw for an amount. On the iPad, you would use Numbers or Google Sheets rather than Excel.
Acrostic Christmas Poems - This site offers a lesson (PPT) for Acrostic Poems. You will have to be creative for the poem activity but here is a suggested activity to follow the lesson:
1) Using Keynote, Have students create a slide for each letter of the word.
2) There are two options:
Option A - Students type the line of the poem on the slide with each letter.
Option B - Place a picture of the letter slide in iMovie. Students can then read each line over the image. The end product is a movie featuring their acrostic poem! If you want them to add images, please have them watch the video below before searching to ensure they are not stealing the images.
Made With Code - This site offers drag and drop coding for several activities such as fashion design, garden robot and music mixer.
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Challenge:
You can start as the creater for some of these ideas. But, aim to have students be the creaters!
The contribution is a quick read blog filled with some good "doable" ideas.
Challenge:
You can start as the creater for some of these ideas. But, aim to have students be the creaters!
13 Simple Ways to Integrate Technology
into any Lesson Plan
The pressure is on, and educators are feeling it more and more.
Principals and school boards everywhere are requiring teachers to integrate technology into the classroom.Sometimes, the change is as simple as adding a computer class to the curriculum, other times it requires teachers to literally flip their entire lesson plan into a hi-tech beast!
Although these flipped classrooms give students an edge, they may also give their teachers a headache! Don’t worry, I’m here to show you that whether you teach 2nd grade math or high school biology there is a simple way to ‘techify’ your existing lesson plans.
Sit back and check out these 13 ways to integrate technology into any lesson!
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into any Lesson Plan
The pressure is on, and educators are feeling it more and more.
Principals and school boards everywhere are requiring teachers to integrate technology into the classroom.Sometimes, the change is as simple as adding a computer class to the curriculum, other times it requires teachers to literally flip their entire lesson plan into a hi-tech beast!
Although these flipped classrooms give students an edge, they may also give their teachers a headache! Don’t worry, I’m here to show you that whether you teach 2nd grade math or high school biology there is a simple way to ‘techify’ your existing lesson plans.
Sit back and check out these 13 ways to integrate technology into any lesson!
Read the Rest of the Article
Classroom Spotlight
This one is a combination of several math teachers! Before Thanksgiving I found Mr. Sebastian, Ms. Spriggs, and Mr. Sellers implementing some problem solving tasks that we face daily.
The goal was to create awareness of tasks that parents perform daily.
The goal was to create awareness of tasks that parents perform daily.
The Better Buy
Mr Sebastian implemented an activity called BETTER BUY
He provided side by side ads for students.
The goal was to find the unit price and determine which ad offered the best deal.
Next Steps Thought:
A teacher could easily provide students with only store names from which they can shop along with
a product list. Then students would need to research ads online or actually go to the stores to collect the data.
He provided side by side ads for students.
The goal was to find the unit price and determine which ad offered the best deal.
Next Steps Thought:
A teacher could easily provide students with only store names from which they can shop along with
a product list. Then students would need to research ads online or actually go to the stores to collect the data.
Thanksgiving on a Budget
Mr. Sellers and Ms. Spriggs implemented a Thanksgiving Dinner Planning Project.
Students were placed into groups and provided a planning document.
The groups then drew to find out how many adults and children.
I was unluck and had to plan for 14 adults. Why unlucky? All groups have a $30 budget.
The students quickly searched through ads finding the best unit price deals.