The relevance of a big idea to the curriculum is usually obvious… discovering how to make it relevant to students is the challenge. creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/v01/articles... #PBL #PBLWisdom
Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator
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Working to support educators bringing creativity, educational technology, and project-based learning to their classrooms. www.thecreativeeducator.com
Turn your emerging readers into writers! 15+ printable adaptations with sentence stems for titles like: 📗 Snowmen at Night 📘 There's a Wocket in my Pocket 📙 Ten Black Dots www.thecreativeeducator.com/offers/story...
Transform the traditional state report - 7 ideas for state learning adventures students will look forward to every year www.thecreativeeducator.com/2025/article...
Kindergarteners may be emerging readers and writers, but they are already powerful storytellers, artists, scientists, and communicators. Explore 50 developmentally appropriate learning experiences: www.thecreativeeducator.com/2024/article...
Inspire your 3rd graders with these creative lesson plans #standards #digitalwriting #digitalagelearning #creativity #deeplearning www.thecreativeeducator.com/lessons/thir...
Use choice boards to engage students in reading and let them demonstrate their comprehension of a story. #choice #literacy www.thecreativeeducator.com/2014/connect... #comprehension #creativity #agency
A new game drops you into a 360-degree scene generated by GPT Image 2, and you have to guess where and when in the world you are wen-ware.com/play/ #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #socialstudies #history #learninggames
Teaching is the creation of conditions in which people are willing to reconsider what they think they know. When teaching is about creating conditions for change, learning becomes the active choice to step into those conditions and let go of old assumptions. #Teaching #Teachers #TeacherSky #EduSky
War and Neutral Rights - Reading with questions is free to print (PDF file) for high school American History classes. #apush #ushistory #readingwithquestions #americanhistory #EduSky #worldwari www.studenthandouts.com/american-his...
Explore geometric transformations and create tessellations with reflection and rotational symmetry. www.thecreativeeducator.com/v07/lessons/...
Activities that use great children’s literature to get young learners to build strong data science foundations (counting, measuring, analyzing), while building reading and writing skills. www.thecreativeeducator.com/2024/article...
From ancient Rome to modern civic issues — Creative Educator turns social studies into art, design, and storytelling. Students design, write & imagine. Great for building critical thinking + creativity. 🖋️🏛️ Explore: thecreativeeducator.com/social-studi
Have your students plan your class's end-of-the-school-year party! Lesson plan for primary focusing on number sense and counting. creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2020/lessons...
Student learning should "uncover: big ideas and not simply cover content. Here's how to use these big ideas to develop questions that guide student inquiry. creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2022/article...
Data storytelling is a powerful way to build literacy and numeracy along with necessary skills for future data science work. 15+ ideas to get you started! www.thecreativeeducator.com/offers/data-...
Have students use area and perimeter to design and calculate cost for a miniature golf hole www.thecreativeeducator.com/2026/lessons... #marchmathness #measurement
Let learners explore shape, color, pattern, identity, and emotion — in art projects that blend tradition with creativity. Visual Arts — made even more dynamic and engaging. ➡️ thecreativeeducator.com/visual-arts
50 classroom activities for 3rd grade www.thecreativeeducator.com/2024/article... #measurement #wordproblems #fables
Discuss the differences between idols and heroes with your students, and have them choose a local hero to let the world know about their super power! creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2012/lessons...
Inspire your 2nd graders with these creative lesson plans #standards #digitalwriting www.thecreativeeducator.com/lessons/seco...
Reading comics is fun. Writing and illustrating their own is learning. Not convinced? Here's why. www.thecreativeeducator.com/v06/articles...
Lessons to help you build essential social-emotional skills like self-awareness, teamwork, empathy, and goal setting. #SEL www.thecreativeeducator.com/lessons/SEL
Digital storytelling provides an authentic opportunity to build both traditional and digital-age literacy skills, even with your primary learners. creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2016/article...
Watching the satellite software zoom in is amazing. youtu.be/aVUwBmImyYM?... #EduSky
NSF Inouye Solar Telescope: Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Observations and Simulation Comparison
YouTube video by National Solar Observatory
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Mikko Tuomi@mustapipa.bsky.social · last wk.Do you know what the surface of the Sun looks like close up? Astronomers have detected the signature of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, tiny swirling patterns like small whirlpools, on the Sun’s surface. nso.edu/press-releas...
Instead of memorizing animal adaptations, ask students to design a creature that could survive in a specific habitat. Every choice matters: 👀 eyes 🪽 movement 🛡️ protection www.thecreativeeducator.com/2014/lessons... #STEM + #storytelling
Every ProjectLearn Academy is designed specifically to help you meet the goals of your professional development program and customized to support the learning needs of your teachers. www.thecreativeeducator.com/training/pbl...
Take an interdisciplinary approach to move beyond studying about a subject to applying it for real-world problem-solving. creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2013/article... #STEM #STEAM
Celebrate Warhol's birthday by having students explore his work and create their own pop art montage. #visual arts creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2018/lessons...
Kindergarteners may be emerging readers and writers, but they are already powerful storytellers, artists, scientists, and communicators. Explore 50 developmentally appropriate learning experiences: www.thecreativeeducator.com/2024/article...