Year 2020 has been a year of COVID 19 pandemic and distance teaching around the world. So these two lesson plans for high school math are designed for distance teaching. As all teachers in Finland, I had literally one day to prepare for distance teaching last spring. I had Read more…
These lessons continue the same theme the 15th and 16th lessons for 2020 started. 3. lesson (45 min) New knowledge acquisitionMethod used: Build-up group (45 min) The students process the new information and draw conclusions from new knowledge. Students form groups of four and they compare what they know about Read more…
Phenomenon-based learning is a part of Finland’s latest national core curricula for education of all levels from early childhood to upper secondary education (K-12), including basic education. The goal of phenomenon-based learning is for students to explore various real-life phenomena from different perspectives. Phenomenon-based learning is particularly well suited to Read more…
Author: Meri Ahonen, LessonApp co-founder and math, chemistry and physics teacher in lower secondary school, Nokia, Finland. This post includes two lessons which are linked to each other. Depending on school’s lesson length, teacher may use both of these in the same lesson or divide them to different days and Read more…
Author: Gracie Meng-Pitkänen, worked as a Chinese teacher in Finland and China I have practiced distance teaching for several months with my small group of students since the Covid-19 pandemic started in Finland this spring. Overall, the outcome is very positive. Thanks to LessonApp which provides distance teaching methods on Read more…
Author: MarÃa Carrasco Orozco (M.Ed) Working as a preschool teacher in Tiny Hands English Kindergarten This lesson is designed to improve students’ confidence when speaking in a new language, as well as to grow their vocabulary. It is intended for children from 6 years old to the end of primary Read more…
Author: Gracie Meng-Pitkänen, worked as a Chinese teacher in Finland and China I have used the building blocks and methods presented in LessonApp in the following lesson planning. The methods in the app are very versatile which offer a lot of options to choose. My class is consisted of children Read more…
Author: Meri Ahonen, LessonApp co-founder and math, chemistry and physics teacher in lower secondary school, Nokia, Finland. This lesson is an introduction about ‘percents’. Students get acquainted with percents during primary school but of course we will recall the basics at 8th grade before starting to solve more difficult problems. Read more…
Author: Satu Herrala (M.A.) special education teacher in lower secondary school (grades 7-9), Takahuhti school, Tampere, Finland In February, before the Covid-19 pandemic reached Finland, my class of 9th graders made a field trip to the Parliament house in Helsinki. The hostess of our visit was a Finnish MP Hanna-Leena Read more…
Author: Teemu Nieminen (M.Sc, M.Ed) Working as a class teacher at Kankaantaka primary school, Nokia The Three States of Water This lesson about these three stages of water has been designed for G5 students and will be delivered before the lesson about the water circle. I have delivered this lesson Read more…
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