Educational technology
- Free Technology for Teachers: Canva for Education – Lesson Plans Incorporating Visuals Across the Curriculum
Canva is a nice tool for designing infographics, collages, flyers, and slides in your web browser or on your iPad. - Free Technology for Teachers: Two Tools for Turning Outlines Into Mind Maps
- Free Technology for Teachers: Insert Graphs and Equations Into Google Docs and Forms
Instructional strategies
- Historical Figure Fan Page Designer lesson plan
Can also be used as a reader response idea for a book character
Assessment
- Copy of Backchannel/ Informal Assessment Tools Comparison Chart
From Free Technology for Teachers - Formative Assessment Tools & Resources
The Stoplight Method: This is a fun and effective way to collect data on student learning and instructional decisions. Students post what they learned (green light), their ideas and questions (yellow light), and if anything stopped their learning (red light).Four Corners: In four corners, you ask a question and students move to a labeled corner of the room in response. Once students are in their corner, you can either use it to get a sense of the class’s understanding, or have the students stay in their corners for further discussion.
Curriculum content
Books and reading
- Album cover
Reader response idea
Information literacy