Taking inspiration from an infographic about immigration in the United States, I recreated what it would look like with similar percentages and styles but changed the theme: What if there were only a certain number of cellular licenses given a year and you HAD to have one to use a cell phone? While an exactContinue reading “Cellular Licenses Infographic – Solo Build”
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Choose Your Own Warmup
A variation of a part of the TextQuest, I took the concept that would be used in a language arts class for exploring character motivations and made it a discussion on important concepts in a disease chapter for 8th grade science. Students get in groups of 2-4 and choose a question. There is also aContinue reading “Choose Your Own Warmup”
Low-Tech Social Network (Remake)
Need quick activity to get your new class to get to know each other than isn’t horribly awkward? Try a low-tech social network! I am not sure if the link is the originator or not, but this activity is a great, quick ice breaker. Start by using yourself as an example, put your name, andContinue reading “Low-Tech Social Network (Remake)”
Bartle’s Taxonomy of Player Types – Solo Build
All the way from the forgotten year of 1996 is Dr. Richard Bartle and his classification of video game players (or people who do something virtually). If you don’t want to get real deep into all that, it’s basically a dichotomous chart that places you into categories by percentage in regards to what you likeContinue reading “Bartle’s Taxonomy of Player Types – Solo Build”
March Sadness (Remake) – Solo Build
A completed 8th grade bracket for characters from 2019-2020 curriculum readings. Teachers would print a bracket for each student around EoG Review time and have students fill one out then debate and give text references that back up which character they feel more empathy towards and why. The bracket I filled can be found here.
Room Transformation – Speed Design
Mrs. Ballentine requested a poster redesign for what I imagine is a room transformation. The following are my redesigns of National Park posters. To create, I downloaded the images from their respective website, opened Paint, and deleted the original wording while trying to be as faithful to the type font as possible. I found thisContinue reading “Room Transformation – Speed Design”
Book Review – Edrenaline Rush
No Time To Read Your Review – Jump Me To The Stuff I Can Use! After you’ve been in education for a while, you get a sort of super power to recognize which books will offer you new ideas, fresh perspectives, and concrete justifications for why this authors thoughts work so well. My current readingContinue reading “Book Review – Edrenaline Rush”
Developed Artifacts – Edrenaline Rush, Part 1
Chemistry Clue – Developed for use in 8th Grade Chemistry class for review. Made specifically at completion of Chemistry I review and students return from winter break, having forgotten everything. Original Template Here. Hacking Your Class (Back to School, Day 1 Introduction to Class) – Developed for use in my personal PLTW class for InnovatorsContinue reading “Developed Artifacts – Edrenaline Rush, Part 1”
Doing Class 