11 Tools To Help Students Publish Their Writing

 

Do you want to help your students improve their writing skills?  Sure you do.  You can read the article by clicking here.

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7 Ways TikTok Can Be Used to Encourage Learning

Yep the kids are on their tik tok.  Use that to your advantage teaching.  Read the article by clicking here. 

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Where to Find Real History in the Anti-CRT Era

 

According to the website, "We are living in a time when a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. Dozens of states are attempting to erase history from textbooks and curriculum if it paints certain populations in an unflattering light, and teachers’ jobs are under threat in many places if they teach certain concepts."  To read the article click here.

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It’s Never Too Early For Your Students To Write Their Autobiography (Lesson Plan)

 

This is something you might have your students do a the beginning of the semester.  So to plan for next year you should take a look at the article.  It includes not only a lesson plan but a slideshow.  To read the article click here.  Happy Friday.

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Lesson of the Day: ‘What Would the End of Roe Mean? Key Questions and Answers.

 

Are you teaching a Current Events or World Issues course?  If so this lesson might be what you want for this very topical topic.  To see the lesson click here.

 

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Earth Day Classroom Activities

 

The United Nations recognizes April 22nd as Earth Day.  If you need some ideas or activities for Earth Day then click here.  Have a great weekend.  

 

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Power Lesson: Poetry Gallery Walk

If you are doing any poetry in your class this lesson/assignment with a gallery walk might be just the right thing for your class.  To read the article click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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Make Units More Inspiring with Vision Boards

Want to make learning more visible for your students?  Sure you do.  According to Amanda Cardenas, "A unit vision board is a lesson planning tool that allows teachers to imagine their units as an experience and think through what it would feel like to be part of that experience."  For example this is an example for The Great Gatsby.

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Pixar’s 10 rules for teaching and lesson planning

 

This website always has something.  Today I am posting a link to their summary for educators for the classroom  of Emma Coats rules for storytelling that she used at Pixar.  To see this summary either click here to read the article or look at the image below,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchase  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon and check out the pre Black Friday ads below.   The JBL ear buds below are a great price again.  I might even buy a pair at $89 for myself.

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Lesson Plan on Poetry that ties to History & Current Events

 

If you are doing a unit in either poetry, history or current events this might work for you.  It deals with the 22 year old Amanda Gorman's Inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb".  To see the website click here.

Persuasion Unit

From their webpage, "PERSUASION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

This unit shows instructional approaches that are likely to help ELLs meet new standards in English Language Arts. The lessons address potent literacy goals and build on students’ background knowledge and linguistic resources. Built around a set of famous persuasive speeches, the unit supports students in reading a range of complex texts. It invites them to write and speak in a variety of ways and for different audiences and purposes."  To see the lesson plans click here.

Mathematics Assessment Resource Service

This site has lesson plans for math from grade 6 through high school.  To see the lesson plans click here.  I have used a lesson similar to the one on the ferris wheel for modelling the most general cosine function.  To see that lesson plan click here.  

Oxygen, Oxidation and Combustion Lessons

This is a three-lesson mini-unit on oxygen, oxidation and combustion, produced by NASA.  To see the 22 page lesson plan click here.

Marketing Lesson Plan - Mr. George

Yesterday I posted about some great lesson plans from Mr. George about World History.  Well he is back again.  If you are a business educator and need a marketing lesson plan well this site is definitely for you.  I  like the  20th Century Consumerism unit that Steven George has in the third column.  To see this great site click here.

5 minute lesson plan

The 5 minute lesson plan original came from the above site, click here.   Here is a brief video about it.                                 

This template can be found at this link by clicking here.  Others can be found there. I like this one below by Collen Young.  It can be downloaded by clicking here.  

The template above was modeled after Emily Hughes' template that follows.  It can be found by clicking here.

 

The last one below is from Just Math. To download it, click here.