Tweet The first day of summer came and went last month; and now it’s July – summer is here! This month we have Inspiration®, InspireData® and Kidspiration® lesson plans for the Fourth of July and Bastille Day. Throughout the month you can also celebrate Barn Day, Go West Day, Moon Day and Amelia Earhart Day. Read more »
Tweet Constructivist theory or constructivism is a learning model that empowers students to learn through their own classroom-guided experiences and reflect upon those experiences. Let’s talk more about this learning model today, and how visual thinking and learning tools can support this type of learning.
Tweet This week’s featured Inspired Site by Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky is packed full of excellent resources on Inspiration® and Kidspiration®! Here, you’ll find scientifically based research on teaching with graphic organizers, links to tutorials on the Inspiration Software website and countless examples of how to use these tools in your classroom. This Read more »
Tweet In Temple Grandin’s inspiring speech on TED.com titled “Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds,” she talks about how – as an autistic mind – she sees and thinks about the world around her in pictures.1 Grandin describes the minds of children and adults on the autism and Asperger spectrum as being Read more »
Tweet This week’s featured Inspired Site by Wacona Elementary School in Georgia, highlights some examples of ways to use Inspiration® and Kidspiration® in the classroom. These examples are listed by the following subject areas: Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies. This site will help you get started on these tools, as well as provide Read more »
Tweet This week’s featured Inspired Site showcases elementary, middle school and high school templates and ideas from Cape Girardeau in Missouri. The templates span across all subject categories including, but not limited, to reading, writing, Language Arts, math, health, and science. This site makes it easy for you to download Inspiration® and Kidspiration® templates right Read more »
Tweet This month we have lesson plans across countless subject areas for Inspiration®, InspireData® and Kidspiration®. Discover how you can better incorporate these visual learning tools into your lesson plans and classroom activities with the following examples created by other educators just like you! Do you have any lesson plans that you’ve created that would Read more »
Tweet With Inspiration®, InspireData® and Kidspiration®, we’ve provided some excellent resources to help teachers get started and continue using visual learning across all subject areas in the classroom. These tools include things like lesson plans, video tutorials, templates, activities and examples. It’s important to us to help educators feel fully equipped to integrate our visual Read more »
Tweet Did you know Inspiration® and Kidspiration® are commonly used among learners who are deaf and hard of hearing? In fact, at the Resource Materials and Technology Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, associated with the Florida Diagnostic & Learning Resources System, Inspiration and Kidspiration are widely used to help students with disabilities Read more »
Tweet April showers bring May flowers. So, while you’re indoors with your eyes glued to the books or a computer screen, we’ve got lots of lessons to keep your classroom exciting and fun, despite the rain! This month covers everything from lessons on environmental awareness to math, poetry and even Shakespeare! Get started with Inspiration®, Read more »
