Building blocks
Designing lessons with LessonApp: Three states of water (for 5th graders)
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.
Education
Free webinar: Discover Early Childhood Education in Finland!
Free webinar: Discover Early Childhood Education in Finland! We are running a series of webinars once a month. Join our upcoming webinar, “Discover Early Childhood Education in Finland!,” on Monday, December 16th at 2:00 PM GMT. In Finland, early childhood education forms the cornerstone of a lifelong journey of learning Read more…
Distance teaching
Designing lessons with LessonApp: Chinese lesson in distance teaching
Author: Gracie Meng-Pitkänen, worked as a Chinese teacher in Finland and China I practiced distance teaching for several months with my small group of students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, the outcome was very positive. Thanks to LessonApp which provides distance teaching methods on time at critical turning point of Read more…
Activating
STEAM – a way to do and enable cross-curriculum work
Author: Jukka Miettunen, Principal, Yli-Ii comperehensive school (grades K–9), Oulu, Finland I work as the Principal of the Yli-Ii Comprehensive School in the City of Oulu. Our school has put a lot of effort into STEAM. STEAM, which means Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics, is a rising star amongst Read more…
Lesson planning
Designing a lesson with LessonApp: What is sound (7th grade physics)
Learning physics helps us to understand the world around us. In Finnish curriculum, physics as its own subject starts in lower secondary school when students are 13 years old. Before that physical phenomena have been studied in environmental science, biology and geography lessons. During the grades 7-9 students will learn Read more…
Teaching
What is co-teaching?
Working as a teacher can be a lonely job. Even though you have colleagues: you have common coffee breaks with them, plan your lessons together, have discussions or even do assessments together — nevertheless, a teacher is alone in the classroom. One class, and only one teacher. If we are Read more…
LessonApp
Designing lessons with LessonApp: Mother tongue lesson for Primary school
UNESCO report states that about 40% of the global population does not have access to education in the language they speak or understand. Studies have shown that there are many benefits why students should have a right to study using their own mother tongue at school. Using the mother tongue Read more…
Pedagogy
Pedagogy for large groups
Many teachers find it challenging to teach a group with a lot of students. They think that activating students in large groups is difficult and the number of teaching methods is limited. Many teachers see traditional lecturing, teacher talking – students listening, as the only possible teaching method for a Read more…
Distance teaching
How to promote learning in distance teaching?
Teachers around the world have been struggling with distance teaching. During the pandemic, many of us were thrown to deliver our classes distantly without proper preparation or training for it. Many teachers were deeply concerned how much students were actually learning when studying remotely. They were asking: “How to really Read more…
Collaboration
LessonApp is part of Finland Education Shop
Learning Scoop has established Finland Education Shop to provide an online marketplace where teachers and schools around the world can find quality educational products from Finland. LessonApp is happy to be part of the catalog! The ultimate goal was to help teachers and schools: to provide them with a place Read more…
