Great Classroom Ideas
FOLDABLES
Interactive, three-dimensional, student-made graphic organizers. Use them for note-making, journaling, study aids, projects…
Foldables are Wonderful – organized in subject areas.
Get in the fold – lots of ideas organized in concepts and skills. This link takes you to an idea for using foldables as you teach the book Say Something (available at the DRC) as a way to open up dialogue about what it feels like to be teased or bullied. http://getinthefold.blogspot.com/2010/09/say-something.html
Minibook Gallery – examples and templates.
Lapbooking- After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in a large folder. The finished product is called a lapbook because it's large and covers your lap.
INFOGRAPHICS
Use infographics (visual representation of information) in the classroom. Check out the following resource
10 Awesome Free Tools to Make Infographics 
Infographics as a Creative Assessment
NYT Learning Network Teaching with Infographic Series
GOOD Infographics
Visual.ly Inforgraphics and Data
Chart Porn: Data Visualizations You Gotta Love
Visualizing
20 things that happen in a minute
David Warlick's Infographic Resources
Comments (1)
Moira Kirkpatrick said
at 5:40 pm on Jan 8, 2012
I just tried to make the Story Elements Layered Look Book using my 2011 version of Word. None of the headings show. You will need to open it in an older version of Word (a PDF format would have been the better way to distribute this).
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