Educational Tools and Resources
Lesson Plan Resources: Brainstorming 3rd and 4th grade
Tools found online as text, video or audio file:
- This is a website for brainstorming in elementary school. It explains what brainstorming is and why it is important in the writing process. This tool aligns with the online lesson I’m designing because it is a reading activity that helps students learn to brainstorm properly.
https://www.learningliftoff.com/3rd-grade-reading-activity-brainstorming/
- This is a video is called how to writing for kids and is about brainstorming and shows students how to complete a graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is filled out to brainstorm ideas for writing.
- This is a pre writing activity that is similar to an educational game to use before starting the writing process. This could be easily utilized for my online lesson because it is a game and the students would love to engage with something that is rewarding for them.
https://www.weareteachers.com/clever-pre-writing-activity/
- This is an online lesson plan to teach students how to brainstorm using the dictionary. A substitute could easily use this guided lesson plan with dictionaries to help the students expand their knowledge on different topics and come up with new ideas for their writing piece.
https://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/learninggame/learninggame012b.shtml
Online informational resources:
- How to get students to generate original ideas with brainstorming. This video is important because it is a simple representation on how to complete a graphic organizer.
- Realistic fiction writing for kids, episode 2 Brainstorming.
- Kidspiration Maps:
http://www.inspiration.com/go/kidsmaps
Versatile easy to use graphic organizer for early elementary. This site aligns with the online lesson I am designing because it provides the students with a simple graphic organizer they can complete independently.
- Popplet:
Simple organizational tool for minimalist presentation
- Text to Mind Map:
https://www.mindmup.com/#storage
Basic tool to help kids see how concepts relate. Which is very important in the brainstorming process because students can branch ideas off of their main ideas.