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Welcome to mid-November! This month, our HotChalk Experts talk about
different ways of
"teaching" art and the latest standards for administrators,
while our bloggers see if they can get instant feedback from students
and the serendipity of a teachable moment. There’s so much to discuss!
Also, be sure to check our latest
resources at LessonsPlansPage.com – we have thousands of free lesson
plans to keep you energized and your students engaged! What are the Experts Writing About?
In "What
is IB Art?" Tere Barbella explores how teaching IB Art differs
from teaching a more traditional high school art class. While traditional
art courses are structured and follow very prescribed projects and
lessons, IB emphasizes a balance between direct instruction and careful
coaching, with some interesting results.
Meanwhile, Diane Main continues her most ambitious series yet: standards
for administrators. In "ISTE
NETS*A Part 2: Digital Age learning Culture," Diane explores
how "Educational Administrators create, promote, and sustain a
dynamic, digital-age learning culture that provides a rigorous, relevant,
and engaging education for all students."
HotChalk Blog Updates
- Ever wonder what your students are thinking? Worried that many
of them are not really grasping the key concepts some days? Need
to find out if they really WERE listening when you were explaining
the expectations for a project? Check out Diane Main’s "Instant
Gratification to the Rescue!"
- "Good
Teeth," by Shannon C'de Baca, explores how a teachable
moment can come from the most unexpected places - even from a sibling’s
extreme soda consumption.
"There are so many ways to use this teachable moment. I think
that dental health combines a bit about acids and bases with some
great anatomy. So, that is where we began our inquiry."
Featured Thanksgiving Event
Sign up now for a free 30-minute live
webcast field trip to the Plimoth Plantation with Pilgrim and a
Wampanoag tour guides. You’ll receive a series of letters from these
guides prior to watching the event on Tuesday, November 16th (1:00
p.m. EST) in your classroom or media center. For other amazing
interactive Thanksgiving activities, visit the “video” and “other
resources” sections that now grace our Thanksgiving page.
Curious Sites
- You (or your students) can attempt to fix our nation’s finances.
This Budget
Puzzle, courtesy of the New York Times, allows you to design your
own plan and share it online with others.
- This amazing visual and audio rich on-line
learning experience lets you investigate the "real" story
of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people.
LessonPlansPage.com Updates
LessonPlansPage.com salutes American
Indian Heritage Month and features Thanksgiving lesson
plans and units. Don’t miss their latest autumn video recommendations!
- Art: Native American rock art, sand painting, rug
weaving, pottery, dreamcatchers and other craft ideas
- Computers & Internet: a technology-rich Native
American unit and a webquest on “Indian” school mascots
- Language Arts: Native American poetry, folk tales
and superstitions; Indian Chief biographies, making a tribal language
and vocabulary notebook; and a “write your own myth” lesson
- Math: creating Native American wall hanging using
patterns and geometric shapes, plus Indian Chief Venn Diagrams
- Multidisciplinary: painting a Native American historical
event mural, planting a Native American garden, the Lakota Sioux Sun
Dance, and a unit of the Americanization of Native Americans
- Music: making Hawaiian 'Uli 'Uli instruments
- Science: Chief Seattle’s letter and ecosystems
- Social Studies: several collections of Native American
cultural activities; several lessons comparing the cultures, lifestyles,
and feelings of Native Americans and European settlers, both then and
now; a research lesson on Native American culture, lifestyles, and
contributions; activities creating dioramas of Native American homes
and a Native American board game; also units about Alaska, the Southwest
Experience and the Trail of Tears
- Other: specific lessons on Cherokee, Haida, Iroquois,
Navajo, Seminole, Sioux, and Hawaiian native cultures
Featured American Indian Heritage Month Lesson Plan
Last month, Rodolfo Ramirez (Texas) contributed the latest addition
to our impressive collection of original and thought-provoking American
Indian heritage lessons. His students (grades 8-12) debate “Was
Westward Expansion beneficial?” after studying the effects of Manifest
Destiny on the growth of the United States and the decline of Native
Americans living in the Great Plains. For more in-depth lessons comparing
Native American lifestyles to that of Pilgrims or other European settlers,
as well as traditional Native American culture and crafts lessons –
visit our American
Indian Heritage Month Collection.
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