creative lesson plans Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/creative-lesson-plans/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:01:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Using Google Drawings to create blackout poetry in the classroom https://ditchthattextbook.com/using-google-drawings-to-create-blackout-poetry-in-the-classroom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-google-drawings-to-create-blackout-poetry-in-the-classroom https://ditchthattextbook.com/using-google-drawings-to-create-blackout-poetry-in-the-classroom/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:13:46 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=7983 Blackout poetry takes standard text (from a newspaper or magazine article … really any text you find). The artist then uses a marker and blacks out all of the words except for a select few, leaving a pithy piece of prose behind. I was first introduced to blackout poetry by Austin Kleon, author of the […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/using-google-drawings-to-create-blackout-poetry-in-the-classroom/feed/ 1 10 ways to generate great lesson ideas https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-ways-to-generate-great-lesson-ideas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-ways-to-generate-great-lesson-ideas https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-ways-to-generate-great-lesson-ideas/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:20:38 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=7949 I’ll bet you’ve been there before. Seated at your desk. Staring at a blank page in your lesson plan book. Or looking at a blank document on your screen, the cursor blinking as if it’s mocking you for being stuck. Trying to come up with great teaching ideas is tough! It’s especially tough when you […]

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