Teaching Ideas!!!
Here are some teaching ideas that you can make your own. You can find these lesson plans on Read/Write/Think. There is a lot of room for you to make it fit into your classroom and your subject.
Analyzing the Purpose Meaning of Political Cartoons
In this, students will get a chance to look at cartoons and analyze what the author is trying to say. You could take this lesson and spend a 30 minutes on it or you could spend a couple of days on it. You could have the students one day look at the cartoon and have a class discussion about what everyone thinks it means. then you could have them look up this information on the internet and maybe even do a research paper about the issues that is being discussed. This will bring in things that are going on in this world right to your students fingertips.
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
In this students can just go wild with there imagination. You, as a teacher, could have your students write letters to or from their character, you could have them make a movie about them, write a story about them, and the ideas are just endless. This lesson could really get students to really feel apart of the story or history subject that you are teaching.
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-based Inquiry
With this lesson you don't need to have students do the Vietnam War. They could do any kind of war or subject that you want them to. This will get students to interact with the internet and the students (by the end) will have more skills in searching for items on the internet. You could even make this a team activity or a game to see how could finish first. You could also use this as a study day before the test is handed out.
Analyzing the Purpose Meaning of Political Cartoons
In this, students will get a chance to look at cartoons and analyze what the author is trying to say. You could take this lesson and spend a 30 minutes on it or you could spend a couple of days on it. You could have the students one day look at the cartoon and have a class discussion about what everyone thinks it means. then you could have them look up this information on the internet and maybe even do a research paper about the issues that is being discussed. This will bring in things that are going on in this world right to your students fingertips.
Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
In this students can just go wild with there imagination. You, as a teacher, could have your students write letters to or from their character, you could have them make a movie about them, write a story about them, and the ideas are just endless. This lesson could really get students to really feel apart of the story or history subject that you are teaching.
Building Vietnam War Scavenger Hunts through Web-based Inquiry
With this lesson you don't need to have students do the Vietnam War. They could do any kind of war or subject that you want them to. This will get students to interact with the internet and the students (by the end) will have more skills in searching for items on the internet. You could even make this a team activity or a game to see how could finish first. You could also use this as a study day before the test is handed out.