Friday Five: August 28, 2020
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This week, we’ve been gearing up for September. We discovered lesson plans from “Design Squad,” Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom, A Gardening with Kids Virtual Event and we’re revisiting a favorite recipe: “Nutty Chocolate Banana Breakfast Cookies.” Also new this week – a quote from John Holt.
1. Lesson Plans from “Design Squad”
While the series wrapped in 2011, we recently rediscovered this engaging STEM-focused live-action show featuring kid-engineers. Check out the accompanying lesson plans.
2. 8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom
Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning. Read more.
3. Growing Together: Gardening with Kids (Online Event on 9/3)
Vermont Public Radio and Charlie Nardozzi team up with Sarah Pounders of KidsGardening for a virtual event about fall gardening projects for kids. Sign up for the event.
4. Nutty Chocolate Banana Breakfast Cookies
Mix up a batch of these breakfast cookies for a healthy and tasty anytime of day snack. Get the recipe.
5. Education Quote of the Week
“Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.” ~ John Holt
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