This lesson plan was created by a teacher taking one of my Lesson Upgrade classes over Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind. The basic overview is using Latin science vocabulary to create a short story.  I think that students are more apt to remember vocabulary if they use it in a creative manner, such...
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This website offers some nice resources to get started with digital storytelling. Daniel Pink’s Story aptitude is easily infused into any current lesson plan.  If you want to look at easy upgrades that will develop the right brain skills in A Whole New Mind, this site is a great place to start.
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A number of years ago I read an article about a publication that came out about every three weeks that featured a short work of fiction whose intended length would be a train ride into the city.  I subscribed to One Story and have renewed every year. When I first read Dan Pink’s A...
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Consider these statistics: 25% of all new technology companies in the United States have an Indian or Chinese immigrant as a founding partner. Patent filings by immigrants make up between 60-72% of filings from major technology companies. Now…what happens when future immigrants end up staying in their native country and not moving to the...
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This  is a student example of a story board created about Pullman Illinois.  I had students read one section from the text and complete a graphic organizer.  Then I took students to a large panel of windows and had them use dry erase markers to draw out that section using any pictures they wanted...
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