Creative Teaching

The Brooklyn Nine WebQuest by Karen Steinberger is a wonderful example of how a combination of modeling and scaffolding and jumpstart creative projects.

Connect this book to local connections. Also, think of other historical themes that students could explore.

• Web Connections
  • Alan Gratz.com
  • Google Books
  • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
  • Library of Congress Baseball Cards Collection
  • Library of Congress Sports and Leisure Collections
  • Baseball Sounds
• Web-based Tools
  • Bubbl.us
  • HugeBigLabs - create lots of fun visual images with photos like magazine covers and movie posters.
  • HugeLabs Trading Cards
  • Microsoft PowerPoint - Set Page Size to 2.5 x 3.5
  • Easy Bib
  • Character Trading Cards

Others Generators

• Movie Clapper Board Generator - Creates a movie clapper image.
• Newspaper Generator - Creates a newspaper front page.
• Redkid - Sign Generators
• Scholastic's Make Your Own.
• TiltShift - Turns a photo into what looks like a miniature world.

ReadWriteThink Generators

• Book Cover Creator
• CD Cover Creator
• Comic Creator
• Cube Creator
• Letter Generator
• Persuasion Map
• Acrostic Poems, Shape Poem
• Postcard Creator

TRY IT
Explore HugeLabs, Bubbl.us, and ReadWriteThink Interactives. Consider the pros and cons of web-based tools versus desktop tools and software.