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Student Reflection and Self-Assessment Creative Educator

Reflection and student self-assessment require time and are most successful when you add specific procedures for them during the learning process. Work in time for reflection, as well as time to improve their work based on the evaluation. Here are … See more

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Project-based learning is digital citizenship in action

WEBA project-based approach to learning gives students' online communication and collaboration a purpose, making digital citizenship a natural part of daily teaching and learning. In a project-based approach to learning, students are presented with a problem and must learn content, think critically, and practice a range of skills in order to

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Fostering Gratitude Creative Educator

WEBHere are 6 ideas to get you started practicing gratitude with students in the classroom. 1. Send a thank you card. We all love to be thanked because it lets us know that someone else has acknowledged our behaviors and actions. Sending a thank you card lets you show your gratitude and complete the “ cycle of kindness .”.

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Here's to Your Health Creative Educator

WEBAssessment. There are many skills to be assessed in this project: persuasive writing, health knowledge, research, teamwork, organization, and more. Persuasion will be addressed in both the essay and the PSA. You can first assess students’ prior knowledge about persuasion as you explore sample argumentative essays.

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Showcase Student Work during Project-Based Learning

WEBSharing student work with the world beyond the classroom and sharing student learning are separate tasks, but both are essential for effective project-based learning. by Melinda Kolk. Melinda Kolk ( @melindak) is the Editor of Creative Educator and the author of Teaching with Clay Animation. She has been helping educators implement project

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Healthier School Lunches Creative Educator

WEBWorking in small groups, student teams will design a menu for a week of school lunches that will encourage healthy eating and reduce the amount of food students throw away. Some groups may want to distribute a survey to another class, or classes, and use the resulting data to help them with their lunch menu design.

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Implementing PBL in Physical Education Classes Creative Educator

WEBPBL does, however, provide powerful opportunities for students to become physically literate, understanding the benefits of involvement in physical activity and understanding how it contributes to overall health. by Melinda Kolk. Melinda Kolk ( @melindak) is the Editor of Creative Educator and the author of Teaching with Clay Animation.

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It's My Body Creative Educator

WEBAsk students to think about how the organs in a body system, such as the digestive system, work together. Hold up an apple and take a bite. Ask students what body system you are using to eat the apple. Record students’ answers on chart paper. Ask students how each part of the digestive system works together to help digest the apple.

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Technology Lesson Plans for High School Creative Educator

WEBCreative Educator lesson plans can help you provide your high-school students with an engaging and creative approach to content learning. Students in high school need to be reinvigorated as well as challenged with classroom activities. Get them working, thinking, and playing hard with high-school content. Depending on your student's abilities

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STEM and STEAM Lesson Plans Creative Educator

WEBHere's to Your Health. Students will research a health issue, write an essay, and transform their argument into a public service announcement. Lessons to integrate technology into your science curriculum.

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Infographic Lesson Plan Creative Educator

WEBInfographics are an increasingly popular way of sharing information in newspapers, magazines, and online news sites. These visual representations of knowledge and information are designed to make complex ideas and large amounts of data easy to understand. There are many ways to create infographics. After exploring a variety of …

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Informational Text Projects That Build Thinking and Creativity

WEBHere are some ideas for unique and creative projects and products that get students thinking about the content they are reading. 1. Trading Cards. Trading cards are a form of informational text that even young students are familiar with, even if they aren’t baseball or Pokémon fans. Creating a classroom set of trading cards for historical

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Six ways to implement digital storytelling Creative Educator

WEBIdea 1: Visual Poetry. Poetry’s purposeful word choice encourages close, careful reading. Have students create digital storytelling versions of text poems to demonstrate their comprehension of the author’s word choice and intent. As they create their visual poems, students ”interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including

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Moving up Bloom's Taxonomy Creative Educator

WEBBloom’s taxonomy covered three areas: cognitive (mental development), affective (attitude), and psychomotor (physical skills). The cognitive taxonomy relates to helping students learn content and skills to solve problems. Within the past few years, David Krathwhol, who was on the original Bloom project, met with others to update the taxonomy.

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Connecting Curricula for Deeper Understanding Creative Educator

WEBSTEM, STEAM, and More. In recent years, curriculum developers have begun putting money and effort behind the notion of connecting allied disciplines. Linking the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math has been given the acronym STEM. These disciplines have a lot in common, so their interconnection seems logical.

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The President's Team: Cabinet Nominations Creative Educator

WEBBegin by introducing the Executive Branch of the government and the role of the President’s Cabinet. Established by the Constitution in Article II, Section 2, “the Cabinet's role is to advise the President on any subject he may require relating to the duties of each member's respective office.”. As key advisors to the President, these

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Write a Great Authentic Task Creative Educator

WEBMelinda Kolk ( @melindak) is the Editor of Creative Educator and the author of Teaching with Clay Animation. She has been helping educators implement project-based learning and creative technologies like clay animation into classroom teaching and learning for the past 15 years. An authentic task in project-based learning is an excellent

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Publish a Digital Magazine Creative Educator

WEB6. Creative Communicator. Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. Students: a. choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

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Halloween Safety PSAs Lesson Plan Creative Educator

WEBAssessment. Halloween PSAs are a fun performance task you can use to evaluate students understanding of essential safety issues as well as their skill at supporting an opinion and persuading others. Create a rubric or checklist to remind students about supporting an opinion with reasons and examples. Create your own rubric for free at rubric

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