Junior High School is the PERFECT time to activate your students' brains. These are the years where connections are made to last for the rest of their lives. We should be overstimulating their brains, challenging them, helping them make connections and guiding them to becoming independent and curious learners. Standing up in the front of the class and speaking is not the way to activate your students!
Part I. Take one of your already prepared lesson plans. Adapt it to now include:
Use the 4Cs Lesson Plan Template
Part II. Fill out this Googleform
Part I. Create a lesson plan that includes at least two active learning ideas.
Use the Active learning Lesson Plan Template.
You can use some of the ideas from the GoogleDoc (yours or others - give credit :)
Please watch this short tutorial if you do not know how to make a copy and share your work.
Or, in short: