I am a teacher, blogger, and teacher trainer with more than 30 years of experience in education. I like to explore new possibilities to engage learners and enhance their learning experiences. I am the author of the blog, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century http://aysinalp.edublogs.org / where I share my reflections and insights on learning and technology.
I am a teacher, blogger, and teacher trainer with more than 30 years of experience in education. I like to explore new possibilities to engage learners and enhance their learning experiences. I am the author of the blog, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century http://aysinalp.edublogs.org / where I share my reflections and insights on learning and technology.
Visible thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching learning in all content areas and fostering students’ intellectual development at the same time. My experience in teaching with visible thinking routines showed me that it fosters greater motivation for learning and a shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners. You can check Harvard Project Zero website for more information. https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines
This inquiry and project-based pack on climate change has been prepared with an interdisciplinary approach, so you can use it either in an English , or a Citizenship class. There are 92 slides with many texts and videos. There is a response activity after each of them and a project at the end of the unit. Students are asked to prepare a TED talk after learning how to prepare one, analyze cartoons and news reports, create a cartoon and write a news report afterwards. It includes a Quizlet activity, links for games on sustainability, links to websites for research, rubrics, self and peer evaluation forms, and reflection activities. Students are provided with choices and all activities are based on their voice to differentiate learning. As there are multiple exposures o content, you can also differentiate learning by assigning different tasks to different groups of students.
Apart from the Power Point in the attachment, I included the Google slides link in notes to the teacher section which will enable you to delete or change the content according to the needs of your students. Your students can complete all the forms on the slides version and send it to you if you are using Google classroom, which will save paper. If not, all of them are printable. The entire unit will last for 4-6 weeks depending on the number of hours you are teaching per week.
Visible thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching learning in all content areas and fostering students’ intellectual development at the same time. My experience in teaching with visible thinking routines showed me that it fosters greater motivation for learning and a shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners. You can check Harvard Project Zero website for more information. https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines
This inquiry and project-based pack on climate change has been prepared with an interdisciplinary approach, so you can use it either in an English , or a Citizenship class. There are 92 slides with many texts and videos. There is a response activity after each of them and a project at the end of the unit. Students are asked to prepare a TED talk after learning how to prepare one, analyze cartoons and news reports, create a cartoon and write a news report afterwards. It includes a Quizlet activity, links for games on sustainability, links to websites for research, rubrics, self and peer evaluation forms, and reflection activities. Students are provided with choices and all activities are based on their voice to differentiate learning. As there are multiple exposures o content, you can also differentiate learning by assigning different tasks to different groups of students.
Apart from the Power Point in the attachment, I included the Google slides link in notes to the teacher section which will enable you to delete or change the content according to the needs of your students. Your students can complete all the forms on the slides version and send it to you if you are using Google classroom, which will save paper. If not, all of them are printable. The entire unit will last for 4-6 weeks depending on the number of hours you are teaching per week.
This 32-slide lesson on how to spot fake news to become critical consumers of media includes 3 mini projects, a game, videos, infographics, activities and reflection questions at the end of the lesson. The activities are scaffolded, and step-by-step the students are introduced to the tips, tools, and websites on how to spot fake news and images on both print and digital.
There is a PowerPoint version in the attachment and a Google Drive link in Notes for the Teacher section. You can edit both of them to make adjustments according to the needs of your students.
Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes for the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
This 32-slide lesson on how to spot fake news to become critical consumers of media includes 3 mini projects, a game, videos, infographics, activities and reflection questions at the end of the lesson. The activities are scaffolded, and step-by-step the students are introduced to the tips, tools, and websites on how to spot fake news and images on both print and digital.
There is a PowerPoint version in the attachment and a Google Drive link in Notes for the Teacher section. You can edit both of them to make adjustments according to the needs of your students.
Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes for the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
By using this comprehensive inquiry-based guide, you can analyze any novel or short story using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines and reading strategies. It includes 3 projects with rubrics, 3 writing tasks, and 20 different activities, most of which include Visible Thinking Routines. Other than Visible Thinking Routines, there are cooperative learning activities such as expert groups, gallery walk, Socratic discussions. There are also formative assessment tasks at the end of each project.
I used Trudy Ludwig’s short novel, Just Kidding but you can use them with any text on bullying with the exception of one activity: Reading response journal. The questions in this activity are about the novel. You can use similar questions about the text you are using.
It will take you one month to complete all the tasks and projects in the guide, but if you do not have enough time, you can omit some of them. You can also differentiate them by assigning them to different groups of students. You can use it either digitally as there is a Google Drive link in Notes to the Teacher section or as a hard copy if your students do not have devices. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes to the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
By using this comprehensive inquiry-based guide, you can analyze any novel or short story using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines and reading strategies. It includes 3 projects with rubrics, 3 writing tasks, and 20 different activities, most of which include Visible Thinking Routines. Other than Visible Thinking Routines, there are cooperative learning activities such as expert groups, gallery walk, Socratic discussions. There are also formative assessment tasks at the end of each project.
I used Trudy Ludwig’s short novel, Just Kidding but you can use them with any text on bullying with the exception of one activity: Reading response journal. The questions in this activity are about the novel. You can use similar questions about the text you are using.
It will take you one month to complete all the tasks and projects in the guide, but if you do not have enough time, you can omit some of them. You can also differentiate them by assigning them to different groups of students. You can use it either digitally as there is a Google Drive link in Notes to the Teacher section or as a hard copy if your students do not have devices. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes to the Teacher.
Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .
This 24-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100, place value, addition, and subtraction with 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review these topics in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 24-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100, place value, addition, and subtraction with 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review these topics in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 11-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100 and place value in 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review the Numbers unit in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 11-page Christmas themed pack includes game-based resources and activities on representing numbers 1-100 creatively, skip counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s, comparing and ordering numbers 1-100 and place value in 2-digit numbers. You can use it to review the Numbers unit in class or assign it during the holiday break. My students loved the Christmas images and enjyed the games. I hope your students will love them, too.
This 48-page resource pack includes fun games and game-based activities about numbers and place value, addition and subtraction for year 1. My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers, addition, and subtraction in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.
This 12-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to learn or recycle subtraction with numbers 1-20 . It includes games and activities to understand and use minus and equal signs, add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers up to 20, mental math, solve and create one-step and missing number subtraction problems. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 to review year 1 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL .
If you liked this resource, please visit my shop to see the packs about numbers and addition for year 1. Thank you.
This 15-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to learn or recycle addition with numbers 1-20 .The pack includes games and activities to understand and use addition and equal signs, mental math, to solve and create one-step addition problems. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 to review year 1 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL .
If you liked this resource, please visit my shop to see the packs about numbers and subtraction for year 1. Thank you.
This 15-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to learn or recycle addition with numbers 1-20 . The pack includes games and activities to understand and use addition and equal signs, mental math, to solve and create one-step addition problems. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 to review year 1 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL .
If you liked this resource, please visit my shop to see the packs about numbers and subtraction for year 1. Thank you.
This 21-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to recycle reading and writing numbers 1-20, count forwards and backwards up to 100, skip counting in multiples of 2, 5, and 10, count more or less from a number and place value (1-20). My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.
If you are not allowed to use dice in the games, you can use number cubes. You can find a copy of a number cube in the pack that your students can cut and paste to play the games. Thank you for visiting my shop.
This 21-page resource pack includes fun game-based activities and games for your students to recycle reading and writing numbers 1-20, count forwards and backwards up to 100, skip counting in multiples of 2, 5, and 10, count more or less from a number and place value (1-20). My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.
If you are not allowed to use dice in the games, you can use number cubes. You can find a copy of a number cube in the pack that your students can cut and paste to play the games. Thank you for visiting my shop.
You can use this 88- slide pack with any novel (or short story) you are teaching. It is suitable for both virtual and face-to face learning and includes everything you will need while you are teaching the novel. There are 23 graphic organizers, 3 projects, 1 Instagram template and 1 choice board with optional activities, which you can use either digitally or as hard copies. Each strategy is introduced on color-coded slides with information and activities. Students then use that strategy to analyze the novel they are reading by completing different activities.
There is also a comprehensive Teachers Guide with detailed information on how to use this template, additional ideas, and links. The link to the Google Slides version of the Power Point template is in the Teachers Guide. Please don’t start using the templates before you read the Teachers Guide.
Some of the activities may be too difficult or easy for your students. You can delete them as there are many activities in this unit or you can differentiate them by giving different activities to different students according to their reading and writing levels. You can also add more questions, delete some slides, or change some of the questions to make it work for you and your students.
If you like this pack, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 to see the other resources.
Enjoy:)
You can use this 88- slide pack with any novel (or short story) you are teaching. It is suitable for both virtual and face-to face learning and includes everything you will need while you are teaching the novel. There are 23 graphic organizers, 3 projects, 1 Instagram template and 1 choice board with optional activities, which you can use either digitally or as hard copies. Each strategy is introduced on color-coded slides with information and activities. Students then use that strategy to analyze the novel they are reading by completing different activities.
There is also a comprehensive Teachers Guide with detailed information on how to use this template, additional ideas, and links. The link to the Google Slides version of the Power Point template is in the Teachers Guide. Please don’t start using the templates before you read the Teachers Guide.
Some of the activities may be too difficult or easy for your students. You can delete them as there are many activities in this unit or you can differentiate them by giving different activities to different students according to their reading and writing levels. You can also add more questions, delete some slides, or change some of the questions to make it work for you and your students.
If you like this pack, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 to see the other resources.
Enjoy:)
This fun pack contains back to school activities that you can use while teaching virtually or face to face during the first weeks of school so that you can get to know your students better and build positive relationships with them.
A lot of these activities are adaptable to be completed independently or at home in case of virtual learning.
This fun pack contains back to school activities that you can use while teaching virtually or face to face during the first weeks of school so that you can get to know your students better and build positive relationships with them.