Get to Know your Stress Response System: Middle School Standards Aligned workbook
Instructor Knapp: Get to Know your Stress Response System Through Biofeedback
This fillable pdf or print workbook introduces students to their stress response system and teaches them how to use a heart rate monitor to gather biofeedback and plot their heart beats per minute. As students learn about their autonomic nervous system through a fun-loving character, Inner Lizzy,…
These empirically researched, classroom-tested learning guides provide teachers with an all-inclusive teaching “kit” that keep students on track through a flipped, student-centered instructional design.
Replacing high-cost textbooks with a low cost, light-weight print alternative (roughly the size of a magazine), these teaching and learning kits “unfold” online via the cloud and provide multi-media, scaffolded curriculum designed to build the skills needed for student success in college and beyond.
Aligned with Common Core Language Arts Standards, these print and digital texts provide new Language Arts/Composition faculty with everything they need to ‘hit the ground’ running, and veteran teachers with a plug-and-play flipped instructional design package.
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My Study Guides have earned a 94%+ approval rating over four years in a variety of college classrooms, according to anonymous surveys that have included 100s of students and teachers—these study guides are a win-win!
—Instructor Knapp
STEM Writing Instruction
Using the Campus as a Living Lab model, this year-long 11th or 12th high school English Language Arts course or semester long college composition course guides students through a series of sequenced writing and research assignments that support the culminating project— a collaboratively developed Proposal that provides a research-based solution to a real sustainability problem.
Students apply what they learned in the first half of the course through a series of micro-lectures and an embedded closed captioned guest speaker series (GreenTalks) to develop their solutions. However, the strategies for teamwork and communication that students must apply in order to meet their Team Pitch/Proposal deadline may be the most valuable aspect of the course. With embedded supports for English language learners, the course gives students a taste of the creative problem solving and critical thinking required in today’s complex world and instills 21st century skills of life long learning, teamwork and clear communication—all essential skills for success in STEM.
Instructor Knapp: Study Guide Technical Writing
This all-inclusive “flipped” course guides students through practical, professional writing tips and strategies. Students watch view-do videos that prepare them for multi-genre assignments. Text, video (CC) and visual lessons appeal to a broad array of learning styles. Sequenced lessons build…
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Language Arts Instruction
By Stacey Knapp in Instructor Knapp
8 pages, published 1/7/2014
Instructor Knapp:Rhetoric and Composition
Rhetoric and Composition contains the same complete course content as College Composition only without the Critical Reading Reflection formal essay assignment. Instead, this reader focuses on two formal essays: the Rhetorical Analysis essay and the Discipline Investigation report. This version also…
Instructor Knapp:College Composition
This teaching and learning kit includes materials and lessons for a Common Core-aligned, high school language arts course with research-based strategies to support English Language Learners. Includes three complete customizable essay assignments with corresponding peer review cover sheets, CC…
By Stacey Knapp in Instructor Knapp
38 pages, published 8/15/2013
Professional Development
Safe Schools: Safe Schools
Trauma-Informed digital workbook•Common Core Aligned•Teaching and Learning Kit includes half-day, hands-on workshop that helps educators practice, discuss, apply and share trauma-informed practices.
by Instructor Knapp 