The last thing you want your students to do is stop paying attention in class. Truly, even the dullest subject or most information-packed lecture can be spruced up by adding an interactive element to your lesson. Thankfully, replacing your chalkboard or whiteboard with a large, interactive display may be the best tool in your arsenal. Luckily, there are Instructomania Interactive Lesson Plans to help guide you. Here are some creative ways that you to quickly bring your students’ attention back up to speed.
Break up Traditional Lecture
Lectures are useful when you have a lot of material to cover, but we understand that temptation to start dozing off. However,today’s students respond better and retain more when that information is broken down into smaller, more manageable chunks.
By inserting moments for your students to come up and point out or interact directly with the board, it keeps the pace of your lesson moving along nicely. Additionally, it gives students time to process the discussion. Likewise, it gets them involved in the lesson and moving again before going back to new information.
Using Current Trends
Current trends prompt a sense of curiosity and interest. Therefore, using current trends involves students in the lecture as they watch and learn. Students learn the information given and also the tools on hand. More visual elements that come with the latest educational technology are also designed to appeal to different learning types. Students who are more visual or hands on learners will gain a great deal more from a more interactive classroom.
Have them come up and present their answers and write out their answers or calculations on the screen. Their marks and annotations show up instantly and for the whole class to see. This way, the entire class can also work together to produce the right answers, fostering discussion.
Instructomania Interactive Lesson Plans:
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Google-Ready Lesson Plans
US History Bundles
World History Bundles
Instructomania History Stations
Instructomania has over 700 interactive middle school lesson plans for your classroom! We’ve selected our top 3 best-sellers:
CNN Student News Common Core
NEWSELA Common Core
Ancient Mesopotamia Stations
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