Indiana Learning Lab Ideas

 It's that time of year again where teachers are looking for easy to implement ideas for their students to help keep them engaged and motivated.  Have you explored Indiana Learning Lab lately?  They have some great ideas to help keep you and your students afloat during this last stretch of testing time.

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Here are some free ideas we've found.

Learn about Wordle 

Learn to keep track of student reading using Epic!

Use one of these Googley Activities with your students

Graphic Organizers with Google Drawings

Self-check with Reveal Slides

Hexagonal Thinking or Brain Dumps

 It's that time of year where we start to get bored with the same old routines we've been doing and want to try to spice up our lessons with something new to engage our restless learners!  Here are a few strategies that have been showcased with Matt Miller from DitchThatTextbook.  Have you considered Hexagonal Thinking or Brain Dumps?

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Matt Miller discusses Hexagonal Thinking in this week's edition of his newsletter.

 "Hexagonal thinking: Creating connections in the classroom"

He also has discussed the Brain dump strategy on a previous occasion with Dr. Pooja K. Agarwal.  Dr. Agarwal shares a clip of her talk with Matt Miller while explaining how to use this engaging strategy in her post: "Brain dump: a small strategy with a big impact".  

Check out this week's post from her newsletter, "No time to prep? Use a brain dump (not a movie)".