Something Different to Try

The citizens of Fairy Tale City are all atwitter because their beloved mayor Jack N. Beanstalk has to retire due to term limits. Will their new mayor be I. M. Hogg, Redda R. Hood, or Goldie Locke? Who can the citizens trust to be the best leader? How can the citizens vote smart? Student citizens determine the qualities of a good, positive leader and analyze the candidates through primary sources such as their bio-blurbs, campaign posters, newspaper interviews, and the student deter

Most curriculums include some sort of lessons on what makes a community. Want Something Different to Try? Creating a Town is a multi-purpose, multi-level unit of study that can be a menu study for individual students or a teacher directed set of lessons or a technology-based study that introduces MS Publisher or even a mixture of all 3 versions. Included are 20 pages of forms, rubrics, lesson plans, teaching hints, illustrations of sample products, and a chart of higher level thinking sk

A NEWS BEGINNING – STARTING THE SCHOOL YEAR WITH NEWSPAPERS It’s the beginning of the school year, and you still don’t have all your textbooks and materials. Why not try using print media? The newspaper (hard copy or digital) provides a twist on the usual autobiography and My Summer Vacation type of get acquainted assignments while promoting higher level thinking and reading skills with a high interest, real life text. This Something Different to Try includes 7 multi-level lessons which prac

There are over 300 Old Testament prophecies concerning the birth and life of Jesus on Earth. In each box is scripture for the Old Testament prophecy and its New Testament fulfillment. Look up each set of verses and write the prophecy’s promise on the lines. There is a regular version (Tic-Tac-Toe-Pro) and an easier version (Tic-Tac-Toe Junior). Answer keys are included. Try to get 3 answers in a row and then maybe a full card!

Try sharing the Christmas story from Luke 2 in a different way. Perhaps a pass-it-sequence story telling time or from the point of view of personified characters of the story. A Hand-y Chart helps students use sensory processing to think about the story in terms of another viewpoint. What might the sheep have smelled, tasted, seen, heard? What if the manger told the story? Or a little snake that was hiding in the rocks of the stable cave? It's something different to try.