#9: "The Flipped Classroom," Web Resource, and PowerPoint Interaction!!

A flipped classroom is an instructional teaching design that differs from a traditional one in a variety of ways. A flipped classroom delivers learning material by utilizing technology in an engaging and productive way for students. Students will typically engage in watching online lectures, collaborate in online chat rooms, or research material at home and engage with a mentor in the classroom. It provides students with a more learner based in depth learning style. Typically, teachers will create or play third party videos from the web instead of lecturing. Here are some links teachers might use for their flipped classroom:

• A video for a lecture on Mars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxgYKyHQY8

• A video for a lecture on the human heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxUNxvsG7lc

• A video for a lecture on President Barack Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J0k9M0pCKE

I found a really cool web based resource for teachers to use with their students to learn about women's suffrage for Women's History Month!! I found it under teacher resources on Scholastic's site. I love that when a teacher clicks on the activity it gives them the learning objectives with an outline of what is in the activity!! The activity is an interactive website that gives students credible information on the history of women's suffrage and the story of an amazing woman from that time.

Here are the links:

Teacher Lesson Plans

Women's Suffrage Objectives

Women's Suffrage Activity

For the PowerPoint Interaction project I found an online template for the popular game "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" I absolutely love the template I found!! The creator made it really easy to use and fun and interactive for kids who would be playing the game. It was really simple to go add in any information for the type of questions I wanted to put in and it was easy to make changes to the layout. The only thing was I would have liked was for some of the transitions to have been smoother and for there to have been more audio and music already in the presentation template.