A Blog A Day 9/31

The One About Sketchnote Lesson Ideas

A quick list of lesson ideas! 

1. Stop & Draw Moments- Wendy Pillars (after teaching new content allow your students to stop and draw what they think about that that new concept).
2. Vocabulary Development (let them draw an icon or explanation for a new word(s)
3. End of Unit/Chapter/Lesson Review
4. Add on to Cornell Notes- revisit the notes and add doodles and connections to the infromation. 
5. Rewrite notes, take Cornell or Outline style notes and then rewrite them as sketchnotes.
6. Build Listening Comprehension by sketchnoting a podcast, or sketchnote a video without watching the video just listening to the audio. This can also be done while listening to a read aloud.
7. Sketch a topic of your choice- build mini-research skills and add some personalization into the lesson.
8. Sketchnote a video
9. Sketch a mini lesson this works great for math workshop, writing workshop, reading workshop.
10. Sketch a math story problem
11. Sketchnote lab instructions
12. Sketchnote lab observation
13. Sketchnote concepts (like weather cycle etc.)
14. Timelines, literally any timeline. See example of the history of jello below.
15. Project Planning- Manuel Herrera
16. Annotations to articles read in class
17. Visual Mapping
18. Group Sketchnotes- Carrie Baughcum @heckawesome 
19. #sketchipes (Sketchnote recipes- direction writing) See Lentil Curry and Red Pepper Panzanella examples below
    
20. Biography Sketch - mini research about a person and draw about their life.   

Sketchnote Lesson Supports

Anchor Chart Ideas, a five week lesson plan for introducing sketchnotes, lesson ideas for nonfiction text features- with associated links. 
Click the image to get the file.