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46-Utilize the ENTIRE School Building with this Engaging Scavenger Hunt…Starring Caroline Craig-Bowden and Sandy Smith

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46-Utilize the ENTIRE School Building with this Engaging Scavenger Hunt…Starring Caroline Craig-Bowden and Sandy Smith

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54-Morph Student Identities…Starring Spencer Cappel and Josh Kent

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54-Morph Student Identities…Starring Spencer Cappel and Josh Kent

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116-Deanna Hess Enthusiastically Turns the Car Keys Over to Her Kids

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116-Deanna Hess Enthusiastically Turns the Car Keys Over to Her Kids

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47-6 Incredibly Simple and Powerful Student Incentives

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58-Dishin’ with the HyperDocs Girls...Make your Lessons LOOK Awesome!

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108-Ben Momeni and Cecilia Sutton Want you to Deliver your Next Lesson Via Padlet 

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112-You Simply Must Try StoryMaps from Knight Lab…Starring Max Muhlbaier and Matt Rease

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112-You Simply Must Try StoryMaps from Knight Lab…Starring Max Muhlbaier and Matt Rease

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55-For Tomorrow’s Lesson…Give Students Virtually NO Instructions…Starring Charlie Smith

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33-Noah Heath Prescribes Art as an Antidote for Test Anxiety

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107-Gamify your Next Lesson…Starring Stephanie Howell

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107-Gamify your Next Lesson…Starring Stephanie Howell

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Sometimes you Need to be the Sage on Stage…let Pear Deck Help

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Modern educators are discouraged from being the sage on stage. As the overused cliché goes... Instead of being the sage on stage, be the guide on the side. I'm not a huge fan of this mantra. I understand the need for presentation styles to evolve, but sometimes you need to jump up in front of your kids and inspire them! Even though much of my instruction is flipped, it's still important to present in front of students. While my kids enjoy my recordings, periodically I treat them to a live performance. A few years ago, my wife and I watched Jersey Boys on the big screen and then we saw it live on stage. There was no comparison. Sometimes, you have to go all Broadway on your kids. Sometimes, you need to be the sage on stage.

And here, is where Pear Deck makes its dramatic appearance.

Infuse your presentation with highly interactive engaging prompts by utilizing this amazing tool. Morph your static sit and listenfests into intense student collaborationfests. Transform your lectures into twenty-five separate and simultaneous student-teacher conversations. Pear Deck allows you to do the following:

upload an existing presentation in Google Slides or PowerPoint.

permits students to follow your presentations on their devices, while you control the pace.

empowers instructors to insert engaging prompts before and during your performance.

hides student responses till the teacher decides to display them and student names remain a mystery.

Episode Template The Problem:
Modern educators need to sometimes be the Sage on Stage.
The Solution:
Make your live presentations powerfully engaging with Pear Deck.
What You Can Do Tomorrow?

Watch this brief Pear Deck tutorial.

Select or create a brief Google Slides or PowerPoint Presentation.

Insert a fabulous hook into your first slide.

Prompt students through Pear Deck to respond.

Pear Deck creates a collaborative and engaging presentation environment. Embrace this new way to present and enthrall your kids.
Listen to "59-Sometimes you Need to be the Sage on Stage...let Pear Deck Help" on Spreaker.

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Modern educators are discouraged from being the sage on stage. As the overused cliché goes... Instead of being the sage on stage, be the guide on the side. I'm not a huge fan of this mantra. I understand the need for presentation styles to evolve, but sometimes you need to jump up in front of your kids and inspire them!

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10-Present to Students like a Zen Master

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110-TEMPORARILY Morph your Kids into Buddhist, Hindus, and Muslims via the Belief-O-Matic…Starring Sebastian Kirkpatrick and Graham Mackey

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110-TEMPORARILY Morph your Kids into Buddhist, Hindus, and Muslims via the Belief-O-Matic…Starring Sebastian Kirkpatrick and Graham Mackey

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22-Your User Manual for Outstanding Socratic Seminars...Part 1

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97-The Virtual Gallery Walk Compliments of Screencastify

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97-The Virtual Gallery Walk Compliments of Screencastify

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77-Flipgrid is a Powerful Little Tool that’s a Blast…Starring Aharon Rockwell

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77-Flipgrid is a Powerful Little Tool that’s a Blast…Starring Aharon Rockwell

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101-Meet me in the Agora, the Zero Tech Road to an Epic Class Discussion…Starring Mel Eckelbarger

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84-Send your Kids on a Hero’s Journey with Storybird…Starring Samantha Hart and Merrick Kasper

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Knight Lab Empowers your Kids to Create Incredible Timelines...or Visual Steps in a Process 

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Knight Lab Empowers your Kids to Create Incredible Timelines...or Visual Steps in a Process 

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Marlena Gross-Taylor and Code-Switching Lesson Ideas 

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I became politically aware in 1968...my 7th year of existence. The world seemed on fire. The young Jimmy Sturtevant was busy being a kid, but events kept invading my innocence. In April of that year, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Just weeks later, Robert Kennedy suffered the same fate. The insanity of the Democratic convention in Chicago monopolized TV coverage, but what really captivated the young me was the Mexico City Olympic Games. I watched in wonder as one African-American athlete after another shattered world records in the high altitude of Central Mexico. One black American gold medal winner climbed the podium, donned a black glove, raised his fist in the air, and then bowed his head during the National Anthem. This moment came back to me this past week when the NFL/National Anthem controversy descended. I knew that I had to do an episode on this topic. My objective is not to promote my views, but rather to help brother and sister educators navigate the rhetorical minefield that is this issue. I also knew that I needed help. I decided to share my mic with someone who doesn't look like me...someone who has had a different life experience. And that my dear listener...is where my good buddy Marlena Gross Taylor makes a dramatic entrance. Marlena Gross-Taylor is the founder of #EduGladiators as well as a district leader in Tennessee. She has a proven track record of improving educational and operational performance through vision, strategic planning, leadership, and team building. A Nashville transplant originally from southern Louisiana, Marlena's educational experience spans several states allowing her to have served K-12 students in both rural and urban districts including Atlanta, Georgia and Hickory, North Carolina. She has been recognized as a middle school master teacher and innovative administrator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. As a proud Louisiana State University alumni, she is committed to excellence and believes all students can achieve. Follow Marlena on Twitter @mgrosstaylor or visit her websites www.marlenagrosstaylor.com and www.edugladiators.com. In this episode, Marlena and I will break down this issue and build you up in the process. We'll give you courage to tackle your fears and take on this controversy confidently. Ideas for Activities:

Practice discussing contentious subjects

Encourage students to objectively study all sides of controversial topics

Have kids assume roles in simulations that may differ than their personal views

Challenge students to back up their statements and convictions with objective sources

Teach about code switching (see resources)

Resources: Inviting controversial topics like the National Anthem controversy into your curriculum takes courage. Be an EduGladiator and sponsor societal evolution in your class! Listen to "75-The National Anthem, Code Switching, and an EPIC Teachable Moment...Starring Marlena Gross-Taylor" on Spreaker.

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75-The National Anthem, Code Switching, and an EPIC Teachable Moment...Starring Marlena Gross-Taylor

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I became politically aware in 1968...my 7th year of existence. The world seemed on fire. The young Jimmy Sturtevant was busy being a kid, but events kept invading my innocence. In April of that year, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Just weeks later, Robert Kennedy suffered the same fate.

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42-Revolutionize the way your Students Watch Videos with  EdPuzzle

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104-Please try a SILENT Socratic Seminar…Compliments of Peergrade and the Stanford History Education Group

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104-Please try a SILENT Socratic Seminar…Compliments of Peergrade and the Stanford History Education Group

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73-VASTLY improve Student Presentations by Imposing the 15-Word Gauntlet…Starring Arielle Brown and Ashlynn Hathaway

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73-VASTLY improve Student Presentations by Imposing the 15-Word Gauntlet…Starring Arielle Brown and Ashlynn Hathaway

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57-Escape Rooms Encourage Students to Sneak out of your Room…Starring Kayla DeMuth

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57-Escape Rooms Encourage Students to Sneak out of your Room…Starring Kayla DeMuth

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5-Jen Wilson…QR-Code Book Trailers are a Magnificent Way to Engage Reluctant Readers

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5-Jen Wilson…QR-Code Book Trailers are a Magnificent Way to Engage Reluctant Readers

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96-Jason Connelly is the Man Behind the Curtain…Crafting Powerful and Futuristic Classroom Presentations

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96-Jason Connelly is the Man Behind the Curtain…Crafting Powerful and Futuristic Classroom Presentations

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74-Peergrade is the Much Improved 21st Century Version of Trade and Grade

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74-Peergrade is the Much Improved 21st Century Version of Trade and Grade

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91-Can your Students Spot a Fascist? Starring Scott Elliott

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91-Can your Students Spot a Fascist? Starring Scott Elliott

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111-A Lesson Plan Template that you can use Over and Over...Powered by Google Drawings 

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49-Elon Musk Provides a Lesson which Guarantees Engagement and Relevance

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49-Elon Musk Provides a Lesson which Guarantees Engagement and Relevance

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StoryBoardThat is an Addictive Cartoon Generator that will Transform your Kids into Editorial Cartoonist

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StoryBoardThat is an Addictive Cartoon Generator that will Transform your Kids into Editorial Cartoonist

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When I was a young teacher, I used to bring my newspaper to study hall. Students would perch on their desks and observe me like vultures. As soon as I was done with the Sports Section, or the Life Section, they would swoop down and devour it! Today, I'm not sure kids could identify a newspaper in a police lineup. What I loved the most about consuming the newspaper each day was the Comic's Page and the Editorial Cartoons. Unfortunately, I don't get a paper anymore. My exposure to comics has diminished significantly. I miss them!

So...in this episode, I'll demonstrate how to revive this wonderful medium with the help of a tremendous tech tool called StoryboardThat. I'll also give non-humanities teachers an idea on how they could use it in their curriculum.

To start, however, I must explain the prompt I layed on my kids. Episode 92 featured Brad Gosche of the Columbus Council on World Affairs. He introduced me to Geert Hofstede and the Country Comparisons Model. My lesson built off this exposure. My students were required to craft a comic where they played the role of a Westerner attempting to interact with India. Here is a link to the HyperDoc I assigned on Google Classroom. Students then created amazing 3-panel comic on StoryboardThat fulfilling these 3 jobs:
Panel 1:
You're a foreign power describe YOUR OBJECTIVE in India. It could be setting up colonies in the past, or doing business in the present.
Panel 2:
Describe the applicable CULTURAL DIMENSION.
Panel 3:
Indicate how your ADJUSTED APPROACH will succeed.

Finally, kids shared their comics with classmates on a class Google Slide presentation.
Episode Template The Problem:
Comics are an underutilized medium for student expression.
The Solution:
Challenge kids to create with StoryboardThat.
What you can do Tomorrow:

Become familiar with StoryboardThat by creating your own comic.

Craft a 3-panel comic prompt.

Demonstrate to students some of the StoryboardThat featured in this episode.

Create a Google Slide presentation to act as a landing pad for finished comics.

Your kids will have an absolute blast with this tool. They also will demonstrate deep understanding about their topics.
Listen to "98-StoryboardThat will Transform your Kids into Editorial Cartoonists" on Spreaker

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98-StoryboardThat will Transform your Kids into Editorial Cartoonists

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11-Flavor Tomorrow’s Lesson with an International Perspective 

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40-Inspire 100% Participation in Tomorrow’s Class Discussion with Philosophical Chairs and the Stanford History Education Group

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44-Gallery Walk Part 1...Stage 27 Student Presentations in 9 Minutes

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89-If your Kids have Grown a Little Tired of Kahoot...try Quizlet Live

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89-If your Kids have Grown a Little Tired of Kahoot...try Quizlet Live

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102-Unleash your Student Technocracy…Starring Brennan Daugstrup and Shawn Sherburn

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102-Unleash your Student Technocracy…Starring Brennan Daugstrup and Shawn Sherburn

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Certainly, you've heard the old cliché A picture is worth a thousand words. I did some research on this statement and was delighted to learn that prior to photography, individuals used to say, A painting is worth a thousand words. Images, whether captured or manufactured, are powerful. I cannot remember that last Tweet I sent that was imageless. Social media is fueled by compelling images. We need to capitalize on this natural human attraction.

Here are five iconic images from American history:

The painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware

The WWI Uncle Sam recruiting poster

The Marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima

Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office beside a stunned and blood-stained Jackie Kennedy

Associates of Dr. King standing over his body pointing towards an assassin

Do any of these descriptions conjure up mental images? Do they inspire emotions, or perhaps personal narratives? If you weren't familiar with some of these images, did you Google the description out of curiosity?

This episode will demonstrate how to use images in 3 powerful ways:

1. To help students understand and a profound concept

2. To empower students to create and manipulate images to express themselves

3. To hook students in preparation for an impactful lesson

To help in this noble quest, is Alexandra Lang. Here's Alexandra gazing at a provocative image on her Chromebook.

We talk about why images are important and powerful and strategize as to how teachers can use them. Here are 2 images we discuss in the episode. In the first, Vishvarupa stands and delivers in front of a reluctant Arjuna. In the second, Anekantavada means that individuals may process the world in diverse ways:

It's also important for students to create and manipulate images. Please navigate to this link which is my blog prompt on Chinese landscapes. The Prizma app takes images and morphs them into impressionistic paintings. Your students will love this app!

And finally, follow this link to see the gruesome images I to draw my kids into the horrifying but fascinating story of the Rape of Nanking.
Episode Template The Problem:
Images are underutilized in most classrooms.
The Solution:
Use images to explain, empower kids to create and manipulate images, and also use them as a powerful hook.
What you can do tomorrow?

Create a Google Slide presentation with compelling images about tomorrow's lesson.

Present with Pear Deck.

Challenge students to create their own Google Slides presentation based on your template.

Create a prompt where students must create their own images.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so save your breath and liberate kid's imaginations.
Listen to "60-Morph your Kids into Photojouranalists...Starring Alexandra Lang" on Spreaker.

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Certainly, you've heard the old cliché A picture is worth a thousand words. I did some research on this statement and was delighted to learn that prior to photography, individuals used to say, A painting is worth a thousand words. Images, whether captured or manufactured, are powerful.

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56-Multiply yourself by 26 with Class Playlists

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52-Prime the Pump for Tomorrow’s Lesson with Hooks

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Utilize the ENTIRE School Building with this Engaging QR-Code Scavenger Hunt

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As I read through the 20 page assignment on the Industrial Revolution, I kept thinking to myself...Wow, this is boring! If I was feeling that burn, imagine what my students were going to feel. I decided it was time to break out of the box. In this case, literally break out of the box of the four walls of my classroom. I sent my students on a school-wide scavenger hunt utilizing QR-codes, a hint sheet, and provocative prompts from the reading. This episode will detail this EPIC lesson plan from the vantage point of two of my awesome students. I will also offer advice on how you can create a scavenger hunt at your school.

First, secure a QR code reader. I love this simple, but powerful app i-nigma.

Second, produce QR codes. Classroom Tools has a remarkably easy site to utilize in this quest. Merely type in the questions and answers and then Classroom Tools will generate the codes.

And finally, concoct hiding places around the school for your codes. Create a HINT SHEET to help students search. Below, is my list. I'll bet you could apply many of my hiding places to your building!

HINT SHEET:

1. Finding this one could take you to another level

2. On the back of a warning

3. Where Sturtevant gets his Old Skool messages

4. These kids looked great in 88

5. Behind something black and gray

6. If you find this one...YOU'RE REALLY ON A ROLL!

7. If you don't find this code, your prospects of winning will be extinguished

8. Open this door and find an awesome relationship

9. If you get to the bottom of where this code is placed...I'll be shocked

10. Search this virtual tool we use daily

ANSWERS:

1. Elevator

2. On the back of the "No Firearms" warning on the front door

3. My mailbox in the main office

4. The Class of 1988 composite

5. On the backside of a trashcan in the hallway

6. On the the large paper rolls in the supply room

7. On an obscure fire extinguisher

8. On the backside of my wife's office door

9. On the bottom of the defibrillator in the basement

10. On the "About" section of Google Classroom

Episode Template The Problem:
Your next lesson looks a bit dry.
The Solution:
Incorporate unit concepts into a scavenger hunt utilizing your entire building.
What You Can Do Tomorrow:

1. Download the i-nigma QR reader

2. Create QR codes on Classroom Tools

3. Determine hiding places for codes around the building

4. Craft a Hint Sheet

Morph a dull lesson into challenging your students to hustle around the building formulating wonderful responses to the day's essential questions.
Listen to "46-Utilize the ENTIRE School Building with this Engaging Scavenger Hunt...Starring Caroline Craig-Bowden and Sandy Smith" on Spreaker.

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As I read through the 20 page assignment on the Industrial Revolution, I kept thinking to myself...Wow, this is boring! If I was feeling that burn, imagine what my students were going to feel. I decided it was time to break out of the box.

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Last month...I was chilling in my room 2 days prior to Christmas break. As I surveyed my digs, I became disgusted with myself! My room was a mess. I had just been enlightening my students about the awesome Asian concept of Chi...an invisible source of energy that permeates the universe. Chi flows through the environment, animals and people, as well as man-made structures. Acupuncture and Tai Chi stimulate the life-giving flow of Chi through a person. The ancient interior decoration practice of Feng Shui can do the same for your home or work-space. I felt like a hypocrite.

I decided my room was in desperate need of a Feng Shui makeover! This exercise had great informational power for many parties:

I could apply a complex topic from class in a demonstrable way

I could become more approachable to my students as they cheered me on in my noble quest

I could inspire kids to apply Feng Shui to some aspect of their lives

My room would become more livable

This is EXACTLY what happened! When they returned in January, my students were impressed with my orderly flowing room.

I issued the Feng Shui Challenge in my maiden January student blog prompt. They could Feng Shui their rooms, or lockers, or cars, or phones. Here's the link.

This activity inspired me to sponsor other self-improvement challenges to my students like incorporating To-Do lists:

Please be aware...this doesn't have to just be a social studies thing. Listen to the episode and get some ideas on how you might include such a demonstration in your curriculum.
Episode Template The Problem:
Our curriculums seem irrelevant!
The Solution:
Apply a complex class concept in a demonstrable way...right in front of your student's eyes! Then, challenge them to do the same.
What you can do Tomorrow:

Search your curriculum for a concept you could apply

Brainstorm a way to demonstrate your application

Concoct a way to challenge students to do the same

Have them share their experience in a demonstrable way

If you want to engage students, find ways to make your curriculum relevant. A great way to do this is to have kids apply class concepts to their lives.
Listen to "41-Feng Shui your Students" on Spreaker.

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Last month...I was chilling in my room 2 days prior to Christmas break. As I surveyed my digs, I became disgusted with myself! My room was a mess. I had just been enlightening my students about the awesome Asian concept of Chi...an invisible source of energy that permeates the universe.

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68-Battlevant and Sturtevingo are Two Hilarious ZERO-TECH Review Games 

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Don’t Just have Kids Read about a Place...Send the there with Google Maps

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Friday afternoon hardly seems the time to talk shop, but Quin Thomas and I did exactly that. I've always wanted to interview Quin and I finally talked her into it. She's a dynamic young teacher who gets kids and gets tech. She's one of my young mentors.

She migrated to the Room 111 Studios to enlighten us about the power of Google Maps. I'd used them a bit before our convo. I love grabbing the little yellow guy in the lower right hand corner and dropping him on a blue dot, or a blue street for a closer view.

I needed someone to give me a shove and use this fantastic tool more...Quin was just the woman for the job!

Picture this...you're studying really cool places like Machu Picchu, Tiananmen Square, the Coliseum, the Taj Mahal, or Timbuktu. Instead of just yakking about it, or having students read about it, tell kids to hop on their Chromebooks, fly around the world, and then drop in for a close-up view from ground level.

Here's a link to my introductory assignment I gave to my 9th-grade Geography class.

Here's another link to the Chinese Geography Challenge I gave to World Civ kids.

I was so motivated by this idea that I downloaded the Google Street View App. I felt that our school not having a street view was a darned shame. I followed the instructions, captured a 360^ image and then uploaded the image which generated a blue dot on Google Maps for Big Walnut High School in Sunbury, Ohio. Why don't you see if you can find it and drop down for a closer look!
Episode Template The Problem:
It's hard for kids to visualize that fascinating places teachers talk about.
Solution:
Send kids on a virtual journey with Google maps.
What you can do Tomorrow:

Work through one of my docs linked above to familiarize yourself with the tool.

Challenge students to map their commute to school.

Create a prompt that forces kids to find and then visit some exotic locales from your curriculum.

Challenge students to upload an image to Google Maps.

Google Maps is the way to make the fascinating places your kids study come to life!
Listen to "70-Don't Just have Kids Read About a Place...SEND THEM THERE...Starring Quin Thomas" on Spreaker.

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70-Don't Just have Kids Read About a Place...SEND THEM THERE...Staring Quin Thomas

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Friday afternoon hardly seems the time to talk shop, but Quin Thomas and I did exactly that. I've always wanted to interview Quin and I finally talked her into it. She's a dynamic young teacher who gets kids and gets tech. She's one of my young mentors.

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Engagement Ideas Keep Coming on the Hacking Engagement Podcast

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Engagement Ideas Keep Coming on the Hacking Engagement Podcast

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It is my great pleasure to publish this weekly podcast that supplements my book "Hacking Engagement". Listen and get creative ideas on how to engage students tomorrow! Please visit my website: http://jamesalansturtevant.com/ And...for a cornucopia of teacher empowerment resources, visit: http://hacklearning.org/

It is my great pleasure to publish this weekly podcast that supplements my book "Hacking Engagement". Listen and get creative ideas on how to engage students tomorrow! Please visit my website: http://jamesalansturtevant.com/ And...for a cornucopia of teacher empowerment resources, visit: http://hacklearning.org/

Yes

My brother got on the podcast. We are famous.

Great advice

This podcast is perfect for getting quick tips and tricks to better engage your students. Being a tech coach I really appreciate how he also covers different tech tools that aren't just bells and whistles but solid integration to reinforce standards and deeper learning.

A must listen!

Phenomenal- an absolute must listen for anyone looking for ways to highlight student engagement. Insightful and practical tips that can be used tomorrow!

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‎James Sturtevant Hacking Engagement on Apple Podcasts

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‎It is my great pleasure to publish this weekly podcast that supplements my book "Hacking Engagement". Listen and get creative ideas on how to engage students tomorrow! Please visit my website: http://jamesalansturtevant.com/ And...for a cornucopia of teacher empowerment resources, visit: http://hack...