In The Classroom

Integration Ideas

Movie Poster

  • Summarize key points from the reading of a book.

  • Summarize key points from a lesson or unit.

  • Promote a scientist or topic as the summer's next blockbuster film.

Billboard

  • Create a six-word story using an image.

  • Create a Think-Notice-Wonder activity for students to develop reasoning and critical thinking skills.

Magazine Cover

  • Summarize key points from the reading of a book.

  • Summarize key points from a lesson or unit.

  • Analyze data or information.

  • Students identify public health messages and design a public education campaign using selected templates.

Motivational Poster

  • Express part of the reading they find interesting.

  • Quotes from books students are reading.

  • Express part of the reading they find interesting.

  • Growth mindset quotes

  • Famous quotes from history.

Trading Card

  • Characters from the books they read in class.

  • Vocabulary terms.

  • Site words or phonemic sounds.

  • Shapes with attributes.

  • Different math operations

  • Students will create and share with their peers trading cards with different animals from their country with specific descriptions. Then they would need to figure out where the habitats are from their peers' trading cards.

  • Students will create and share with their peers trading cards with different historical figures, countries, or other facts from a unit of study with a specific description. Then they would need to figure out what the information is describing are from their peers' trading cards.

Jigsaw

  • Upload pictures to represent the main parts of a story.

  • Upload pictures to represent the problem-solving steps.

  • Upload pictures to represent different lesson topics that complete the puzzle for a unit of study,

Badge Maker

  • Create ID's for book characters.

  • Create ID's for shapes.

  • Create mathematician, historian, or science ID's for students.

  • Create ID's for historical figures or famous scientists.

Map Maker

  • Track events from nonfiction texts.

  • Locate geometric shapes around the world.

  • Locate areas to study ecosystems and biomes.

Mosaic Maker

  • Use images to represent the theme or central idea.

  • Collect similar polygons or irregular shapes to create a collage.

  • Students act as photojournalists in their school/neighborhood and then modify their photographs in ways that best communicate their ideas about their community.

Cube

  • Create discussion questions with images for book groups or comprehension.

  • Customize dice for guided reading groups or review games.

Calendar

  • Plan out a unit of study with images related to the topic(s).

  • Create fun calendars for reading logs

  • Plan out a unit of study with images related to the topic(s).