How many of you remember playing Simon Says when you were young? Or using your imagination in pretend play activities? Both of these activities have deeper developmental benefits for children than most realize. Following Directions & Pretend Play focus on these two important developmental tasks and how they can impact success in educational settings. Read on to learn more!
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.
Challenging situations in life escape no one, especially the family! Resiliency & The Family will provide you with ready to teach lesson plans that define many aspects of resiliency, explore associated risk and protective factors along with related characteristics in a variety of engaging ways.
AI Companions is a new phenomenon that is rising at a growing rate. Is this phenomenon just a fad that will be here today and gone tomorrow? Or, is this an alarming trend that is here to stay? Either way, should we be concerned? In this AI Companions: Lesson & Activities, students explore the concept using the provided prompts before deciding if it is a good idea or a bad idea and completing follow-up activities.
Ultra-Processed Foods…talk about a topic that is in the news regularly…this is it! To help students learn more about Ultra-Processed Foods, I’ve created a variety of activities around the topic including chat stations, a drag and drop food sort, a dilemma for students to investigate and even a flashslide and warning label follow-up. Pick and choose or do them all!
Color! It’s everywhere you look! It plays a major role in our moods, emotions, behavior and even learning. In this Color Psychology & Child Development lesson, students will explore the impact of color on a child’s development and then create a nursery or bedroom, playroom or child-friendly classroom based on what they’ve learned.
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!
Set the tone of your class by engaging students right off the bat! Try using one of the “Guess Who? Games”, especially if you teach a food, fashion or child development class. These games get them thinking creatively, communicating and moving pretty quickly. Not only will you set the stage to the type of classroom you will run, but it let’s them know that your teaching style is probably very different than most typical classrooms!
Sometimes you need a generic project that can be used as an individual student assignment when class sizes are small or a group project when class sizes are large. This is where Project ABC for ANY Topic comes in! Regardless of the topic you are teaching, this activity can be used as a review of materials or as an assessment of materials in ANY course, with any topic! It even includes a version that can be turned into a bulletin board or wall display afterwards.
The Paper Towel Art & Child Development Mini-Lesson is a great little activity to use as a beginning of the year or end of the year when you need a little something to fill in those odd days! This is a hand-on activity that can be used with middle or high school students with connections to child development or it can be done with littles where the older students are helping and observing what is actually taking place developmentally. Either way it is a very engaging, fun activity to do with students of all ages!
