Summer 2021 Workshops

Motivate, Engage & Challenge EVERY student!

These workshops provide different strategies and methods to transform ordinary worksheets into engaging activities and games. At these workshops, participants will assume the role of a student as they play the games and do the hands-on activities that cover a variety of content from all levels: elementary, middle school and high school. A wide variety of content areas will be included: Language Arts, Sciences, Math, Social Sciences, Foreign Languages, , Music, Fine Arts, and Vocational. Workshop attendees will be given examples, instructions, templates, and time to create their own versions that will be clasroom-ready at the end of these make-and-take workshops. We provide something for every K-12 teacher.

4 Different 1-Day Workshops with over 30+ different activities/stratigies presented and the option to earn 4 separate USF Graduate Credits (1 credit per workshop).

Workshop #4 TRENDING TRANSFORMATIONS

In this make-and-take workshop, we’ll show strategies and methods that have been trending in educational circles on Twitter, as well as ways we have transformed our ordinary assignments into engaging activities and games. Participants will be given examples, instructions, and time to create their own versions of 30+ activities, such as:

Professor Potato Head
EdPuzzle

Escape Rooms

Up Four It

Book Snaps

Quiz Quiz Trade

Location & Date
Huron, SD July 14th, 2021
Philip, SD July 21st, 2021
LINK to Register

“Great presenters – loved every minute.”

“Perfect Workshop loaded with realistic ideas”

“Best workshop I have ever attended. And I have attended A LOT of them!”

“I am excited to transform my classroom.”

9:00 am – 4:00 pm (1 hour lunch on your own)

No Prerequisites

Cost: $55 Includes a bound booklet with instructions for all the activities, materials for participation in the activities the day of the worshop and templates to create own versions.

PLUS optional Graduate credit University of Sioux Falls $45

Thank you to all who have come before us with the seedlings for these activities that we have tended to and grown in our own classrooms, in our own way. We are truly grateful for all of the ideas that serve as the foundation of our workshops. Also, a big thank you to all of the web developers and hosts of educational web sites that work hard to keep them free and accessible to all teachers and students.

Workshop #1 Transforming Ordinary into Extraordinary

Mazes
Sums Up
Horse Race
Plinko
Dominoes
Kahoot
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Workshop #2 More Extraordinary Transformations

Brain Rush
Tile Time
Find Someone Who
More Money
Selfie
Currently NO 2021 Dates

Workshop #3 Transform Student Learning with the 4 C's

Amazing Race
Just-10
Poll Everywhere
Spoons
Dots & Boxes
Spot Right
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