Inspiration Lesson Plan Book
Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate Inspiration® and visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity.
Inspiration 8:
Inspiration® in the Classroom: Curriculum-based Activity Plans is designed to support educators as they help students develop their thinking skills. The book focuses on using Inspiration 8 as a visual learning tool in the classroom, and includes activity plans for use across the curriculum including mathematics, English, science, design and technology, ICT, art and design, history, and geography.
Written by Jane Finch, Teacher Advisor for ICT, Worcestershire, UK, the book comes with access to more than 30 new and inspiring templates, making it an invaluable teaching tool for educators of any age level. Each Activity Plan includes:
- Overview of the activity
- Expected outcomes
- Resources and classroom management
- Tips on setting the scene
- Detailed instructions for completing the activity
- Ideas for extension and enrichment
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Inspiration 9 Accredited Training
In the UK, accredited Inspiration 9 training is available from TAG Learning. For more details, go to: http://www.taglearning.com/taglearning/inspiration-accredited-training.html.
Inspire Data Lesson Plan Books
Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate InspireData® and visual thinking and learning into science, mathematics and humanities curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning and thinking.
Developing Data Literacy with InspireData
Designed by educators, Developing Data Literacy with InspireData offers 27 content-rich, curriculum-aligned lessons to help teachers incorporate InspireData into their science, mathematics and social studies curriculum. Each hands-on lesson contains step-by-step instructions that can be easily adapted for students age 9-adult, working individually or in teams.
Help students become engaged as they explore and analyze data with these innovative lesson plans!
InspireData and Science: Question, Analyze and Predict
InspireData and Science: Question, Analyze and Predict supports teachers as they help students develop the skills necessary to collect and analyze data, and predict outcomes. Created for ages 9 to adult, the book offers 20 lesson plans designed specifically to support science laboratory activities and Science instruction using InspireData 1.5. The lessons focus on core content strands, including science as inquiry, nature of science, physical sciences, life sciences, and earth and space sciences, in contexts that develop the skills of data collection, analysis and prediction.
Each easy-to-use lesson includes suggested all levels, a lesson description, step-by-step instructions, ideas for assessment, and adaptations for differentiating instruction and extending the lesson.
Kidspiration Lesson Plan Books
Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate Kidspiration® and visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity.
Kidspiration in the Classroom: Reading Essentials
Designed for two age spans, 4-7 and 8-10, the Kidspiration® in the Classroom: Reading Essentials lesson plan book offers 50 lesson plans designed specifically to support primary reading curriculum.
Lessons for ages 4-7 focus on early literacy and the essential components of effective reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. For ages 8-10, the lessons focus on teaching comprehension, vocabulary and content literacy. Many of the book's lessons make use of the activities included in Kidspiration 3.
Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual
The Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual lesson plan book supports teachers as they help pupils develop mathematical concepts, skills, thinking and reasoning.
Thirty lesson plans are included, and are designed specifically to support maths instruction for ages 5-11 using Kidspiration 3.
Lessons focus on core content strands, including number and operations, algebra, measurement, and geometry, in contexts that promote problem solving, reasoning and communication. Utilizing activities created in Kidspiration, these lessons help pupils develop conceptual understanding while communicating their thinking with pictures, models, words, numbers, maths symbols and the maths tools available in Kidspiration 3: Colour Tiles, Pattern Blocks, Base Ten Blocks, Fraction Boxes and Fraction Tiles.
