Useful Classroom Ideas

One of the ideas mentioned in the book that I think would be a useful tool for the classroom is to use a digital microscope to observe changes in things. If I teacher kindergarten I plan on doing themematic units. One of the units could possibly be either plants or gardening. The students could plant their own seeds of their choice of plant and observe the changes. The class could have a collective plant that they grow together and observe under the microscope. With this technology, it enables students to observe the growing process in a way they otherwise would not have been able to do.

A second idea that I found useful that is mentioned in the text is graphics enforced notes. The example given in the book shows incorporating pictures into a lesson focused on letter recognition. As a teacher, I could put letter on the projector (maybe even a SMARTboard so students could interact) and ask students to think of sight words or words that they can think of that begin with that letter. Text and images could then be incorporated to enhance their understanding of letter sounds.