Making a poster, creating a model, or drawing a picture all help increase activity in the brain by having students take information in one form and transform it into another. Classroom Instruction that Works indicates that using nonlinguistic representations achieved a 27 percentile gain As a history teacher I also found those assignments more enjoyable to grade [...]
Continue reading about Glogster – Create an Interactive Poster
Inspiration is a wonderful tool to have students map out ideas, stories, events, etc. The downside is that Inspiration software is tied to a computer that it is loaded on and students cannot continue their work at home, and it is nearly impossible to work on it as a team. This week’s WWW are online [...]