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Grade Range: K - 11
Creative Educator offers articles, lesson plans, and resources for many different ways to put creativity into the curriculum. Explore eight main topics: Creativity, Digital Storytelling, 21st Century Classrooms, Project-based Learning, Literacy, English Language Aquisition, STEAM/STEM, and Teaching and Learning. Curriculum related areas such as Literacy, English Language Aquisition, and STEM resources will grab your interest. Find a variety of lessons in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies to integrate technology and pique students’ interest.
In the Classroom
Creative Educator, designed for teachers, helps you move past stale worksheets to get inspired! Be sure to look at this site to help you discover ways to integrate technology and creativity into lessons. Work with a partner to make the lessons fit in your situation. Share at staff meetings and offer new ideas. Look for ways to bring a new focus to your gifted students. Give as a resource to students, so they can choose a multimedia product to share the content knowledge they are learning. Once you and your students are familiar with the site use Padlet, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10007">reviewed here</a>, to list out student interests. Then use Symbaloo Learning Paths, <a href="/single.cfm?id=17347">reviewed here</a>, to assign lessons to groups with the same or similar interests. Older students, once they have determined their interests, can select their projects/lessons and create their own Symbaloo Learning Paths. After several selections, ask older students to choose the topic they were most interested in, find resources to learn more about the topic, then extend their learning by presenting their findings using a multimedia tool such as (click on the tool name to access the review): <a href="/single.cfm?id=17570">Canva Infographic Maker</a>, <a href="/single.cfm?id=16745">Lucidpress</a>, <a href="/single.cfm?id=13954">Powtoon</a>, and <a href="/single.cfm?id=18155">Biteable</a>.
At Home
Want to enrich your student’s learning? Need summer educational opportunities for your son or daughter? Creative Educator will inspire you!
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Subjects
Art, Biology/Life Science, Computer Literacy, Earth Science/Geology, English, ESL/ELL, Information Literacy/Research, Language Arts, Math, Professional, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Social Studies, Special Education, Writing,