Category: Education Principles

All About Me TikTok Scripts Adapted to FCS Content Areas

Many teachers are doing an about face when it comes to using technology in the classroom! They are reverting back to paper and pencil, hands-on activities, and just being more intentional about the use of technology. Many elective teachers are also being asked to incorporate ELA and Math concepts into their lesson plans. All About Me TikTok Scripts Adapted to FCS Content Areas checks all the boxes! It’s tech without using actual tech and very much ELA based. Thanks to Brian Tolentino for sharing the original TIkTok Script activity on FaceBook and giving me permision to adapt it! Hope you can utilize this in your classes.

Target Groups & Children’s Books

Another great lesson coming your way from Katelyn Propper is about Target Groups & Children’s Books. Katelyn uses this in her Understanding Diversity class. The lesson explores what target groups are, characteristics of them and who they are made up of before assigning a project using children’s books. Read on to learn more.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework of hierarchical thinking from the basic, such as recalling facts, to the higher, more complex, such as creating original work. As educators, we learned about this in our collegiate education theory classes. However, Katelyn Propper of Indiana, used this Bloom’s Taxonomy lesson to teach her high school Education Professions class about it as they prepare their own lessons. Continue reading to learn more.

The Great Race: Pioneers of Education

Many schools are teaching a course around the priciples of education and cover the pioneers of education. Sometimes teaching about “famous” people can be dry and boring, so why not add an element of competition and gamification to jazz it up! The Great Race: Pioneers of Education places the learning in the hands of your students! The activity is from EduProtocol Field Guide (called The Great American Race). Students are responsible for preparing the clues for the race and then compete individually or in groups to see knows their pioneers the best and is the first to successfully complete the race!