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Memorial Day... Using DE SOS (6 word memior) of their school year, of Memorial day, advice to uprising 9th graders...

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Use Word Art site to create word clouds with vocabulary words from current unit. Choose the earth shape. Download word cloud as a jpeg and upload into We Video or Voice Thread to provide information on each word.

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Blabberize mother goose

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Code like a Jedi lessons

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Create posters of ways to help the earth and post around the school or on digital boards around the building provide links for sites and info about 🌍

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Consider a Digital Breakout with DE or highlight the SoS piece of DE to work with teachers.

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Create a recycling chart using Google Draw.  Students will research recycling using Pebble Go. 

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Create a recycling chart using Google Draw.  Students will research recycling using Pebble Go. 

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Have students engineer a communication device to help them explore another galaxy.  Use NewsELA to pull in background info.

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Goosechase scavenger hunt as a review—Wendy

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Don't forget to use WordArt to create vocabulary content, shape poem...this app is out of this world

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Don't forget to use WordArt to create vocabulary content, shape poem...this app is out of this world

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Pass out mismatched sock pairs during PD, challenge staff to “Pair” up with a teacher/class of a different level to have students teach an app/tool

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Send out an animated narrative you create about what happened to the missing sock-Google drawings and WeVideo. Provide resources at the end that will assist teachers to complete a similar project with their students.

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Goosechase scavenger hunt for students as a review or a digital breakout

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Using Big Universe - find a Mother Goose story (or try Epic). Read the book together and have students write a reflection or connection to the story! - DuPre

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Go paper free 😂

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Calming exercises with GoNoodle video

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April 3rd: Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day

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April 3rd: Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day

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Sample blog post. (This is linked to the slide above. The slide is what was sent out.)

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BALANCE LEARNING AND FUN

If your students aren't learning in FUN AND CREATIVE WAYS then you need to find ways to make it fun and creative. TODAY is the perfect holiday to get them up, moving, learning, and having fun all at the same time!!!

GET KIDS UP & MOVING

Instead of having students read an article or chapter at their desk, try a 'Walk-About.' Photocopy the text they need to read. Divide it up and then tape it to the wall in different areas of your classroom. Even if it's the most "boring material," having students keep moving stimulates their brain, as noted in this 2017 Edweek article.

LET KIDS COLLABORATE

Put students into pairs, groups, or teams. Students then 'walk-about' in their teams, read each section of the article or chapter, and summarize it.

GAMIFY YOUR ACTIVITIES

If you are worried about time, use a timer or music. Let students know that when the timer beeps or the music stops, they have to move on to the next station. This will gamify the walk-about and will challenge students to "beat the clock" at each station.

CHALLENGE THEM

Use different summary techniques. Challenge students to use a 6-Word summary or an ABC summary so that they are forced to boil the material down to only what matters most.

GIVE KIDS CHOICE

Instead of having everyone write a summary of each section in a notebook, give them a choice. Maybe they want to use SeeSaw or Flipgrid to record their verbal or visual summary. Maybe they want to draw a picture of their summary and then explain it. The choice is theirs!

At the end of the lesson, bring everyone back together to discuss and reflect. Have each group discuss a different section to put it all back together. Then use an exit strategy like sticky-notes on the board or a question posted in your Google Classroom for them to answer.

CONGRATULATIONS! You have just changed a boring reading assignment into an interactive, collaborative lesson, complete with gamification and technological integration - and it took NO TIME AT ALL. It really is a FUN DAY at work!

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Happy "Don't Go to Work Unless It's FUN" Day!!!!

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If your students aren't learning in FUN AND CREATIVE WAYS then you need to find ways to make it fun and creative. TODAY is the perfect holiday to get them up, moving, learning, and having fun all at the same time!!! Instead of having students read an article or chapter at their desk, try a 'Walk-About.'