NDAGC ignite - GT Integration Activities and Resources

April 26 from 7:00-8:30 pm CT

Learn about real time curricular integrations and resources that are working for our ND Educators. Andrea Edstrom, Stacy Anderson, and Julia Warner will share 5 of their favorite rigorous activities that engage and and ignite learning. Great integrations you can begin to use the next day! 

7:00 Introductions

7:05 Garden Math

Gr 2-5 Integration

Andrea Edstrom Bismarck Public Schools

Learn about this great culminating fun activity to use near the end of the school year. Students are tasked with raising $100 for a pretend trip to Disney World. How? They plant a garden and reap the profits, Each season they must plan their seed choices, returns, profits, budgeting, etc. Andrea will explain the activity and share resources.

7:25 Problem Base Learning: What Is It? 

Gr 1st- 5th (and beyond) Integration

Stacy Anderson Fargo Public Schools

Have you ever thought about trying a problem based activity with your students. Stacy will walk us through Project Based Learning (PBL) sharing numerous resources and examples of PBL ideas and how you can get started. PBL is the example of true integration and cross curricular learning, covering numerous 21st Century Skills and applications. If time we will brainstorm ideas for a PBL activity.

7:45 CoSpaces for Narrative Writing, Coding 

2nd through middle school.

Julia Warner Fargo Public Schools

Bring student narrative writing to life with this virtual reality website and app. Students turn their story into scenes in CoSpaces. Then, they create their own virtual reality headsets, slide iPads into them, and walk around in each other's worlds, listening to each other's stories. Move students beyond their world into opportunities to create new.

8:05 Yummy Math and Open Middle - Online Math hResources that work

K-12 integration

Andrea Edstrom Bismarck Public Schools

Andrea will give a brief tour of each of these free resources  and explain how she has integrated them into her practice. Numerous activities you can use throughout  the entire year. 

8:25 Wrap up and questions