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Infographics- drawing in class all the time

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Collaborate as a grade level team to plan opportunities for our students to engage in monthly STEAM activities that will allow them to think both critically and creatively.

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Used oranges and their peels to demonstrate and have students derive the formula for the surface area of a sphere based on how many flat circles they filled in with the same radius as the orange sphere: SA=4(pi)r^2

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Draw it out on the white board table before the student writes.

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Hands on math activities/art projects

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Start the class with a fun and interactive do now that is related to the kids!

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Real world examples

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Cross-disciplinary projects

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Play games that foster peer to peer communication and creative story telling.

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Create backyard games

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research furniture, design their own piece

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Coloring puzzles and Hans on games that reinforce a topic being taught.

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Using Padlet as a student response board.

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Using Padlet as a student response board.

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Creating youtube shorts/podcasts on information they learned

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Collaboration with other schools on local/global issues

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Student created anchor charts/mentor work samples.

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Student created anchor charts/mentor work samples.

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Doing a cross-curricular project with a fellow colleague to connect learning

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Allowing for more creative writing opportunities in subjects other than English

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Wipebooks (whiteboard chart papers) are hung up around the classroom and students use them to collaborate in groups. Endless activities can be utilized and students are encouraged to use each other's brains and work.

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Taking ownership and pride in learning

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brought home sand and shells from vacation in order to make visualization jars that will encourage mindfulness and de-escalation.

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Create a class economy in which students have to pay to use desk/ classroom supplies etc

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Sketch notes

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Changing the way we teach and allowing students to learn by talking

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Allow students to show their learning in a variety of ways.

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Learning about the butterfly life cycle by having live caterpillars and watching their metamorphosis. Learning through art activities. Lots of hands on exploration. Incorporating nature as much as possible. Field trips.

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Anchor charts made by children for themselves to access.

More hands on activities, projects and experiments.

Incorporate different teaching methods - real life examples/experiences, going outside, bringing community members in, etc.

Mead Grade 5

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Students acted as contractors with a budget to design, draft, and construct futuristic homes within a budget and within specifications of volume and area

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Rap music to teach figurative language

Rap battle for historical figures vs. other historical figures

Mock trials

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Students can create their own website, game or animation for computer science 

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Students can create their own website, game or animation for computer science 

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Role playing events in history. Giving a comparison on how it relates to your life personally.

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Connect components of fitness to body systems in PE.

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Using hands on manipulatives such as playdoh or linking cubes to form letters

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Students “teach” a class and present what they have learned and invite their parents in to watch

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Collaborating with other teachers.

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Let students express their creativity through drawing on worksheets or desks

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Putting out a variety of materials and having students use the materials to make their own creation

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Putting out a variety of materials and having students use the materials to make their own creation

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Empower students with leadership skills to create independent learning opportunities 

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Empower students with leadership skills to create independent learning opportunities 

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Create a comic book

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Allowing more ways to show their creativity about lessons they’ve learned

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Gallery walks and presentations

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Play games, do plays, debates, student centered in learning.

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Allow students to act out a finished project instead of writing or using technology.

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Hands-on learning, STEM in the classroom, projects

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Have students create a social media page for different animals to learn about classification

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Scavenger hunts to get from answer to the next.

Create trivia and games to have students collaborate.

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Design play scenarios that tie into standards and units of study (ex: design an animal/build a zoo for an animal unit in reading.)

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Morning meetings include a riddle/joke of the day that gets students thinking outside the box.

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Practice math skills and real-world problem solving.

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Teacher vs students competition at math/spelling games

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Letting students use multiple ways to show what they know (slide show, poster, essay, etc)

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Student: “Why do we have to learn about shapes in 4th grade…?”

Have an answer for the why do we need to know ___________ question.

Teacher: “Video and software developers to create amazing 3-D graphics and this is how it starts.”

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Ask students their ideas and figure out how to implement them.

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Ask students their ideas and figure out how to implement them.

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Have students tell you how they learn best 

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Have students tell you how they learn best 

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Have students teach an older or younger class about what they have learned. Utilize older mentor students as buddy readers, fact practice partners, or peer mediators.

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Thinking outside the box and allowing students to do their work in other ways.

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Less by the book and more out of the box 

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Less by the book and more out of the box 

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More hands on learning such as tracing  the letters in shaving cream 

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More hands on learning such as tracing  the letters in shaving cream 

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Show kids it’s ok to be (appropriately) silly as an adult

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Show kids it’s ok to be (appropriately) silly as an adult

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Sketch notes

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Student led projects with guidance from the teachers

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Student led projects with guidance from the teachers

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Getting students active inside the classroom to burn off energy

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Getting students active inside the classroom to burn off energy

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Allow teachers pay teachers for supplemental material. So much creative material already created. 

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Allow teachers pay teachers for supplemental material. So much creative material already created. 

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Create historical fiction where the students pretend they are historical figures in real events

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Write a “hand off” story with class. 1 person writes a section and then hands it off to the next writer.

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I want to grow a garden in the classroom with things we could use to make a pizza— we’d learn about planting, growing, harvesting, cooking, caring, working together, and more!

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Substituting song lyrics by finding interesting rhyming words

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Substituting song lyrics by finding interesting rhyming words

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I'm looking forward to working with my new students in the ABA program to help them learn academic behaviors and how to use various strategies (i.e. pecs, AAC devices) to communicate wants and needs.