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Going Live with Your Special Area Content

Make lessons engaging, active, and cross curricular with minimal materials required

COE Specials Team

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Going Live with Specials

How do you get your students onboard?
How do you structure your Live Lessons?
How do you differentiate for all grade levels?
What about materials?
How do you engage learners during your lessons?

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Why did we decide to go LIVE with our Special Area lessons?

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How do you get your students onboard?

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Advertising Live Learning

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How do you structure your live lessons?

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Weekly Schedule:

Monday- Music

Tuesday- STEM

Wednesday- Library

Thursday- Art

Friday- PE (Fitness Friday)

*The teacher leading the lesson is NOT the host

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Fewer Specials?

Each special area could take a component of a themed lesson.

Example- Pollinators

Library- Read a Book about Pollinators

PE- Movement Activity

Art- Create a Sign to Protect Bees

STEM- Pollination Experiment

Music- Connected Music

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Lesson Structure:

Welcome students and review R2P2 Expectations
Remind students of Zoom tools (hand raise, chat, breakout rooms)
Learning Target
Connected movement opportunity
Lesson content- student engagement opportunities
Connected movement opportunity
Wrap up, questions, and reminder of next day’s lesson

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Zoom Bitmoji Headers

Keeping it fun

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How do you differentiate for all grade levels?

Prompts and activities are accessible for all students
Higher order questioning strategies throughout lesson for extension
High interest topics for students
Choosing adaptable activities and showing variations

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What about materials?

Advertise materials needed ahead of time
Giving options for students (i.e. notecards or chat, markers or crayons)
Being intentional about using materials students will have at home (old mail)
Using simple examples- don’t make yours fancy

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How do you engage learners?

Replacing Kagan Strategies with Zoom Tools- raise hand, put answer in chat, hold up a card for A,B,C,D, reaction tool, thumbs up/down, fist or five
Consider age and attention span- place movement activities throughout
For EL students, modeling our thinking aloud and using sentence stems

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Music Lesson Ideas

Music History
Instruments of the Orchestra
Beat patterns
Virtual Music Lab

macy.bell@fayette.kyschools.us

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STEM Lesson Ideas

Breakout Game
Model Experiment with students making predictions
STEM Challenges

andrea.church@fayette.kyschools.us

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Library Lesson Ideas

Mix read aloud with a big idea (sharks, pollinators, growth mindset)
Short Maker Challenge
Poetry Lesson
Stop Motion Animation

rachel.barcus@fayette.kyschools.us

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Compiled Zoom Lesson Slides

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Art Lesson Ideas

Phone as document camera to model artwork
Embed social emotional skills
Cross curricular connections

kelsey.davis@fayette.kyschools.us

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PE Lesson Ideas

Connecting activity and nutrition
Games and trivia connected to exercise
Using materials kids have- deck of cards, snacks

brandon.stevens@fayette.kyschools.us

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