Where do you go to get ideas to help you class over the next
few weeks? I know where I start. It has always been TpT and The Mailbox
magazine I get every month. I also have bought the past yearbooks of the
Mailbox just to get ideas. I have created a large number of projects. Plus I
get items sent to me from various teachers around the state. Some are really
good, some need to be reworked and some became just ideas for the future. I
have even had students come up with ideas for next year’s classes.
I love TpT’s freebies, many of which have turned into some
really good projects. I have taken ideas from my fellow history teacher and
have one planned for right after the Thanksgiving holiday. I have looked through books at our local
Teacher’s Aid shop and I have turned several ideas I “stole” into really good
projects.
I have written plays about the era that we are studying,
created card games from ideas I have gotten from UNO, taken games from that
period and created a simpler version to be able to teach it to my students. I
have made my students watch videos then had them write a sequel (that takes
place two years later).
Ideas come from everywhere. I love to hear stories, I take
workshops, I interview teachers, all just to get ideas. I have posted many here
but there are hundreds that will never see the light of day here on TpT. So many
of them have been tried by my students and so have flopped, some have been very
successful, but I have come up with a better and newer way to present the
information.
Today we did a Barter and Trade in-class project which has
always been very successful but I had to modify it from what I saw somewhere
about the Egyptians. I changed it to fit the B&T of the early French here
in Louisiana. It has worked really well but it took some time to convert it
over to the 1700s. I have created Slave Cabin fold-ups, French Pop-up, and many
more from seeing things in books.
You just can’t sit and hope things will come to you. You
have to make them happen.
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