Four Easy Steps to use EduProtocol Cyber Sandwich!

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EduProtocol Cyber Sandwich! 

EduProtocols were created by Jon Corippo and Marlena Heburn to make a teacher's life easier! What is better than easy protocols with ready-made templates to use immediately? The best part is that there is no fear of failure because each time your students use them they will get better and better!  

The premise of Cyber Sandwich is that students will be able to deepen their comprehension, in any subject, with structured pair sharing with accountability. The example below was used in a math class that was reading about fractions. 

Step 1: Share your Google slide template with students.

*Options: Teacher shares slide deck to all students and one student will share with group or the Teacher shares template with each group

Step 2: Students work in pairs of 2 or 3 using the same text or different texts. They have 10 minutes to read the text(s) and make notes on their assigned slide. The teacher has time to work the room with questions. (K-2 complete notes together or 3-12 work independently to complete their slides) 

Step 3: Students have 10 minutes to work with their assigned group to compare their findings and complete the slide. (K-2 skip this step.) 

Step 4: Each student will use the data from the comparison slide to create their own summary slide of their findings. (K-2 write a summary from the collaborative notes) 

One of the most important things to remember when you are doing a protocol is that you need to stick to the time frame. Even if students don't finish the first few times, they will get better each time this protocol is used. Click the image below to get the how-to slides for Cyber Sandwich.

For more ideas from Jon and Marlena go to their website by CLICKING HERE!

 

Get your students engaged in 5 minutes or less!

 

EDUPROTOCOL THIN SLIDES

How can you get your students engaged and learn how to use technology with little to no prep?  Try and use THIN SLIDES!  It is an amazing EduProtocol from the amazing Jon Corippo & Marlena Hebern. They describe it as "a strategy that is easy enough to be used frequently but open-ended enough to be creative!" The idea is to have students create a slide with a word or phrase then add an image to represent the concept. 

The teacher will give the directions on what topic, vocabulary word, or idea they would like students to use to create an engaging slide. They get 5 minutes in a shared Google Slide deck to add one word or phrase and one image. The students can write a quick sentence in the speaker note section at the bottom of the slide for their 8-10 seconds of presenting.

Teachers can spend more time on what the students have created rather than having the teachers be the "Sage on the Stage." It gives you more of a coaching role in students' learning and allows you to guide them in the right direction. 

Here is a template you can use to help get you started. 

PROS:

Kid Centered

It helps SPED &  ELs learn visually

Collaborative

Creative

Critical Thinking

Used across the curriculum

Immediate Feedback

Everyone Answers

Repetition

Integrates Technology

Loved by Kids!!

Resource Roundup: April is National Poetry Month

Resource Roundup: 

April is National Poetry Month

Poets.org National Poetry Month Resources

Here are 30 ways to celebrate National Poetry Month at Home or Online. Here are 30 ways to celebrate in the virtual classroom. You can also sign up to receive a Poem a Day in your email inbox. 

K-12 Poetry Lesson Ideas from ReadWriteThink

Choose from Lesson Plans, Student Interactives, and/or Mobile Apps to plan activities to celebrate National Poetry Month. 

Discovery Education Poetry Channel

Log in with your district Google account to view lesson starters, videos, video segments, images, reading passages, and activities by grade band (K-12) for teaching poetry. 

Poetry Activities on Seesaw

Choose a Poetry activity on Seesaw to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Pear Deck & PBS News Hour: Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem "The Hill We Climb"

This Pear Deck is geared towards middle and high school scholars and covers Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb" and another poem "The Miracle of Morning."

Easter Magnetic Poetry

Click for an awesome Easter Magnetic Poetry template made by Edutech for Teachers. 

Eric Curts' Great Googley Poetry Projects

Eric Curts has created some awesome poetry resources. Included in this link are resources for magnetic poetry, random poetry writing prompt generator, emoji poetry, poetry templates, and blackout poetry (in Google Docs).

Poem Portraits

Google Arts & Culture and Es Devlin have created an AI and human collaboration where you can donate a word to an evolving collective poem. You then have the option to take a picture of yourself or have it create an image for you. Your poem snippet (based on the word you donated) will be at the bottom of the picture.  

30 Ideas to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Here are thirty easy ideas for how to celebrate National Poetry Month. Choose one or choose one for each day of April. 

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poem Farm

The Poem Farm is a site chock full of poems and ideas for teaching poetry. 

TED-Ed's There's a Poem for That: Season 1

There's a Poem for That is a TED-Ed YouTube playlist of videos that pair contemporary &/or classical poems with animation. There are some other great poems if you search the TED-Ed YouTube channel.

Poetry Foundation Educator Resources

The Poetry Foundation has articles, Poem Guides, and videos to help you teach about poems and poetry. 

7 Free Poetry Resources

Here are seven free printable activities for folks who are in person, Hybrid, or HyFlex. Just know that you will need to make the printable activities interactive for any scholars who are remote learning. TeacherMade seems like a perfect tool to make these resources interactive.

Do you have any great Poetry resources? If so, please share in the comments below. 

 Resource Roundup: Women's History Resources

Can You Guess Who It Is? Google Slides Template by SlidesMania

SlidesMania has two "Can You Guess Who It Is?" templates that would work great for younger scholars creating a collaborative Women's History Slides deck. Here is the pink version and here is the blue/green version.

Women's History Resources from BrainPOP

Women's History videos, activities, and quizzes you can assign in BrainPOP. YCSD teachers, please remember to sign in through Clever. 

25 Women's History Month Ideas for School

A list of 25 ideas for celebrating Women's History Month. Bulletin board ideas may not work for remote learning- but you could make an appropriate virtual background. 

Honor Women's History Month on Flipgrid

Women's History topics from the Discovery Library and Virtual Field Trip activities. Or you can have scholars use Flipgrid to report out on an individual or an event from women's history.

Out-of-This-World Women by Pear Deck 

Pear Deck has Elementary, Middle School, and High School Slides on women that influenced space exploration and include videos and interactive Pear Deck activities. 

Pear Deck Women's History Resources

Pear Deck has six decks about women of note including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cicely Tyson, Kamala Harris and others. 

Women's History Activities on Seesaw

Women's History activities from the Seesaw Community Activity Library. Or you can create your own Seesaw activity using other resources from this post. 

Discovery Education: Women in History

Discovery Education has curated this channel filled with videos and instructional activities about women in history. Videos/activities are divided by grade levels. 

National Women's History Museum Digital Classroom Resources

Digital classroom resources including videos, posters, infographics, lesson plans, timelines, quizzes, and primary sources for grades K-12+. There are more resources as grades increase, but the "Who do I admire?" lesson seems like it would adapt well to remote learning. 

Women's History Resources from the ADL

The Anti-Defamation League provides lesson plans on Women's History topics with an anti-bias emphasis. Lessons may need to be adjusted for remote learning. For example, the Mo'Ne Davis lesson has scholars sharing ideas with Post-it notes. Google Jamboard or a collaborative Google Slides deck would be a great substitution. If you would like help with tech substitutions, please reach out to the YCSD Technology Integration team- we would love to help.

Women's History Month Lessons from the Center for Civic Education

Lesson plans and resources about Women's History. Remote teaching will require some activities to be adapted to digital formats. Note: Even though there is a "Share to Google Classroom" button, it will only share the lesson plan. 

NEH EDSITEment's Women's History Resources

The National Endowment for the Humanities provides a Teacher's Guide with media resources, lesson plans, and student activities. Although the literary lesson plans seem to be geared towards high school, the student activities would adapt well to most grade levels. For example, creating a digital timeline of women in history or creating a film or presentation about a woman in history. Apple Clips would be great for this. 

ReadWriteThink Lessons on Women's History

ReadWriteThink has Women's History lesson plans for grades 3-12.

Women's History Month Resources from ScienceNetLink

Women's History Month resources with a scientific focus. Although there are some resources for K-5, there are many more for grades 6-12.

Women's History Teaching Materials from the Zinn Education Project

Women's History teaching materials and activities for grades 3-12 although they may need to be adapted for remote learning. 

Do you have any great Women's History resources? If so, please share in the comments below.

 Resource Roundup: Celebrate Valentine's Day Remotely

SlidesMania Valentine's Day Google Slides Template

This is a great free Google Slides template that can be used in a variety of ways. Use it to organize your daily activities. Or have a different fun activity linked under each candy for scholars to enjoy. Or use it as a collaborative template with one slide for each scholar so scholars can put Valentine's well wishes for each other within the Slides. However you decide to use it, it is sure to be a hit. 

Jamboard Template for Class Valentine's Day Cards

Grab a copy of this Jamboard created by Megan Venezia (@venezia_megan on Twitter). Click here to open the Jamboard then click on the three dots to the left of Share and click Make a Copy to create your own editable copy to use with your class. 

This Jamboard template was designed to allow scholars to share Valentine's messages with each other. 

If you have more scholars than the Jamboard has premade, you can watch the screencast here made by Megan Venezia explaining how to expand it to suit your class size. 

Share the Valentine's Love on Flipgrid

Use custom Valentine's Frames to have scholars create Flipgrid Valentine's for each other or for their families (or both). Easily share any Flipgrid Valentine's for families through Remind. Scholars can use Emojis to create their own custom Flipgrid Valentine's frame. Or teachers can create their own custom Flipgrid frames using directions shared by @theMerrillsEDU. Here are some transparent PNG Valentine's frames I made with a free Canva for Education account and a free Adobe Spark for Education Account that you can attach to your Flipgrid assignment for scholars to use. I made the frames 1600 X 900 pixels as mentioned in this article. 

• Valentine's Frames

Seesaw Virtual Valentine Ideas

Resources from a Seesaw webinar that include K-5 Seesaw activity links for virtual Valentine's activities.

Be My Remote Valentine Jamboard

Julia Dweck (@GiftedTawk on Twitter) has created another version of the Jamboard Class Valentine that involves scholars screenshotting and pasting Valentine elements. To screenshot on a Chromebook, scholars will do the following:

Do you have other ideas for how to celebrate Valentine's Day remotely with your class? If so, share them in the comments below.