Making
Learning Fun and Teaching a Joy
Mission
impossible? No! Introducing the first book to combine
standards-based teaching curriculum with a new way to
stimulate students’ passion for learning.
SUMMIT, NJ -
Undisputed studies show that learning by doing is a direct
pipeline to a child’s educational success.
Now, in the the first book
to combine the standards-based teaching paradigm with
highly effective motivational approach, a team of
experienced educators and artists put a fresh spin on the
basics while instilling creativity.
In their first book of a
series, Lesson Plans that Wow!, authors
Ed McCormick, Stephanie Dyke, Rebecca Orn Osborn, and Jon
Weiman have taken action against the disturbing trend of
slashing core curricula and the arts, a trend that has
eroded our country’s educational edge.
By compiling12 fun-filled
and classroom tested lesson plans that tap into the
“learning by doing” dynamic, Lesson Plans that Wow!
stimulates a student’s passion for learning with
creative projects that meld history, social studies,
science, and math.Each lesson plan is designed around
national standards for the specific academic disciple. As
a result, educators have a go-to manual to supplement
classroom studies with fun and classroom tested lesson
plans like:
Liberty and
Casting for All
Making copies of the liberty bell while learning history
Don’t Let the
Trilobites
Lessons in the science of paleontology while creating
fossils
Communications
through Gestures
Combining sculpture with social studies
Putting the
‘You’ in Art
Students create a three dimension life portrait of
themselves
Plus eight more creative, standards-based lessons!
Written for educators in
any setting whether it be home or school, Lesson Plans
that Wow! is the essential how-to guide for tapping into a
child’s passion for earning...without them even knowing
it.
About the
Authors:
Author, speaker, artist and
entrepreneur, Ed McCormick is one of
America’s foremost instructional authorities on crafts,
mold making and casting.
Stephanie C. Dyke
is a writer, teacher and mixed media artist with lifelong
experience in creating and teaching visual arts and
crafts. Rebecca Orn Osborn is an author, teacher,
designer, and artist who enjoys writing curriculum. She is
a graduate of the Pratt Institute and currently a
passionate art teacher in the New York City school system.
Jon Weiman is a nationally acclaimed teacher, graphic
designer, illustrator and adjunct professor at Pratt
Institute.
Jon Weiman. Is a
nationally acclaimed teacher, graphic designer and
Illustrator. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor
at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and has taught
at such prestigious schools at FIT, Parson’s School of
Design, Montclair State University, Rutgers University and
the masters program at Marywood College. He is the
recipient of numerous awards from such organizations
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