Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This collection features lessons for electives classes with integrated career components. Read more »
This instructional strategy turns the classic corkboard and string into a tangled, three-dimensional visualization of connections across multiple topics. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
February 14th, 2024
In this lesson, students will learn the basic formatting guidelines needed to follow for writing a script. They will also listen to a film professor talk about careers in television and movies. This is also adaptable for ELA using books that are commonly assigned. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: January 11th, 2024
Screenwriting and other careers in the film industry
Students will participate in a shared piano experience. Following this, they will read about the history of the piano, and learn some basic piano technique. Students will use this knowledge to make a song in BandLab and then share and react to each other's songs on SoundCloud. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: November 3rd, 2023
The History and Technique of the Piano
SoundCloud is a platform for sharing music tracks that you have created. Read more »
Students will define “stereotype.” After doing so, they will share stereotypes they have regarding Hispanic food, watch a few videos that will explain or dispel those stereotypes, and come to a consensus on whether stereotypes are useful. When they have finished the discussion, they will construct a... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2023
Examining Stereotypes in Hispanic Cuisine
In this lesson, students explore reasons for variance in character portrayal. Students begin by watching different interpretations of the same scene and then read an article and each select a monologue to research. Students use a random generator to change the context of their chosen monologues. Finally,... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: August 15th, 2023
Character Portrayal on Stage Versus Film
Escher's Terrific Tessellations: The Art of Tile Transformations
In this follow-up lesson to "Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend," students explore an app that creates Escher-like drawings. Students discuss the principles of design in the drawings. Students discuss Escher and then discuss similarities of the Plains tribes art that precede Escher. Students reflect... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: August 15th, 2023
Escher's Terrific Tessellations: The Art of Tile Transformations
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
Students will watch an ICAP video of Plains tribe member Crystal Pewo Lightfoot who makes star quilts and start quilt based designs. They will learn the history of the quilts and the Plains tribes, examine quilts using modern principles of design, and make a design of their own. Students will share... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: August 15th, 2023
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
A bell ringer strategy that can be employed as either an icebreaker or as a means of activating prior knowledge, Last One Standing has students answer a question in a novel way. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
August 10th, 2023
