Great Teaching Ideas
video project
What Is The Great Teaching Ideas Video Project?
"You can speak a thousand words with one picture." That's the idea behind the Great Teaching ideas Video Project, SuccessLink is currently videotaping a select number of lesson plans and placing them online in a "streaming video" format to compliment the text version of the lesson. The video-clips are approximately 3 - 4 minutes long and contain footage of teachers and students interacting in the classroom. To view a sample video clip click here.
Lessons which have an accompanying videoclip display a "video-clip" icon at the top-right of the page. To view the video lessons you must have Windows Media Player 8 or higher installed on your computer. For the best results, we recommend Windows Media Player 9. To download the free version of Windows Media Player, click on the button below.
For users with a dial-up connection (28.8kb/ps, 33.6 kb/ps or 56.6kb/ps) it may take approximately 30 minutes to download & install the player application.
If you have contributed a lesson plan and would like to participate in the Great Teaching Ideas Video Project or you have questions or comments about streaming video you can contact Georgi Forman at 888-636-4395 or send an e-mail to gforman@successlink.org
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Richard III Research Unit
Students research historical background and create a magazine for the study of Richard III.Cotton Ball Weightlifting
Learn place value by counting cotton balls.Vacation Frenzy
This lesson incorporates research, math, history, geography, and language arts into a meaningful and fun travel project on a variety of different European countries.Personal Reading Device (PRD)
Device can be used improve oral reading, reinforce phonic skills, practice spelling works, math facts and proofreading.Letter Home - West Indies Island Unit
In this unit, students will write “letters home” pretending they are a person who has left the West Indies region to live in the United States. In the letter, students will identify major reasons why people leave the region, and characteristics of the area. Students will expand their learning with a web research activity on teacher approved sites. Students will also write personal unit goals and keep a goal journal. In addition students will study maps of the West Indies and complete a map assessment.Food Chains
In this unit, students will learn that sunlight is the primary source of energy plants use to produce their own food; classify organisms as producers, consumers, herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores; show the flow of energy through a food chain; and predict the effects of removing an organism from a food chain. Several different instructional strategies are used to teach these concepts including questioning, cooperative learning, and identifying similarities and differences. At the end of the unit, students will take a MAP-like Performance Assessment to determine if they have mastered these concepts.The Northwest Valley of the Kings Egyptian Museum
The museum is a culminating activity for an approximate four-week study of the culture of Ancient Egypt and showcases the results of student research, artwork, writing, PowerPoint presentations, re-enactments, and oral interpretatons. After completing our unit of study on the culture and history of Ancient Egypt, the students will choose one area of interest and create a museum display and perform an oral interpretation for visiting guests, while scoring a 30 or above on the presented rubric.Citing Your Work
Students will learn to write a bibliography for an encyclopedia, a nonfiction book, a magazine, and a website.Career Connections
After a discussion of the difference between jobs and careers, students learn how values, goals and attitudes play a role in long term career choice. Students use the personality quizzes to determine their likes/dislikes, career preferences, personality and values. They then analyze the information and determine career choices that fit into their interests. From this list, they choose one career they would like to learn more about. They research that career using a variety of on-line and print resources. They take the information they learn and put it into a presentation they share with the class. This way students not only learn about their career but they learn about other choices as well.La Salud y La Nutrición
This unit is based on eating habits and exercise routines. Once the vocabulary for the chapter is learned, students will fill out some “realia” that mimics what they would fill out in a doctor's office. Then, once the unit is reinforced with the subjunctive verb formation, they will perform oral and written prompts that require them to decipher certain health issues and respond appropriately, whether it's giving advice or recommendations or expressing how they feel about a given situation.
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