Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This collection features a professional learning session alongside several 5E lessons that connect to standards across different content areas. Explore how to create and implement multidisciplinary lessons in "Across the Hall: Multidisciplinary Lessons," then browse lessons that investigate connections... Read more »
Chrome Canvas is a browser-based sketching application that allows users to create simple images, which can be saved to the cloud or shared with others. It is ideal for quick drawing activities or sketch-notes. Read more »
A quick icebreaker activity where students move around the room, share conversations, and work to identify traits in others. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
July 26th, 2024
The basics of envelopes and applying the concepts to musical performance
In this lesson for band classes, students will discuss what “attack” and “release” mean in a musical context. Students will participate in a “30-Second Expert” activity in pairs, in which one student reads about ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, and release) envelopes on synths and the other reads about... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 7th, 2024
The basics of envelopes and applying the concepts to musical performance
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
