Video: It Works

 

Want to hook and hold your students? Video almost always engages. Ted-Ed has many examples, including this one on verbal irony that could be used with an English Language Arts lesson or even a lesson on bullying. Ted-Ed has ready-made or adaptable lessons based on videos. Enjoy. (And we mean that--no sarcasm intended.) 

How do we learn?

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There are many ways we learn, but how do we maximize and deepen that learning?

This learning pyramid offers some food for thought.

Igniting Curiosity...

Remember the science-in-a-crate program? The program has been redesigned by MindFuel. Formerly The Science Alberta Foundation, MindFuel ignites curiosity, critical thinking and imagination in youth around the world. Combining innovative digital resources and real-world experiments, MindFuel creates programs designed to help educators ignite a passion for science in students of all ages. Click the link above for more information.

Key Instructional Strategy: Questioning

No doubt as a teacher you ask some terrific questions. But don't you love it when students ask thought-provoking questions too? Inspired by information from The Right Question Institute, this post outlines a step-by-step process whereby students develop their own essential questions about their learning thus creating a culture of questioning in your classroom. Now that's an important life-long skill! For strategies in developing open-ended questions, visit our last post.

Blooms--Another Look

Key to thinking and learning, Bloom's Taxonomy can be represented several ways such as the example in this post. To access the rest of these questioning stems and other varieties of Blooms' Taxonomy, click here.