PD Theme Parks…Your Ticket to a Richer Teaching Experience

Posted by dstevens on Nov 20, 2009 in Design, In The News, QA Community of Practice, Teacher Training

Each of the main Units currently have theme parks: Taiga, Virtual Mesa Verde, Plague and Statistics. In the coming months, additional theme parks for Spacenik and Drakos will also be found in Teacherville.

Tags: Ander City, Classroom practice, community of practice, Modern Prometheus, Taiga, teacher contribution, theme-based instruction

Quest Atlantis Units: Your Standards Solution!

Posted by jwatson on Oct 15, 2009 in QA Community of Practice, Teacher Training

Quest Atlantis Units (Taiga, Plague, Ander City Statistics, Spacenik, etc.) are the curricular features that give teachers and students the biggest reward, in motivation, engagement, and learning. But they also require the biggest investment in time—often taking up to 12 days in the computer lab with more classroom and teacher prep time to support them. [...]

Tags: content standards, curriculum, multi-curricular, theme-based instruction