Integrate Inspiration® Into Your Curriculum
Inspiration® applies visual learning methodologies that engage students' learning in language arts, science and social studies and support planning and thinking. Use these examples and resources to help you start using Inspiration with confidence and creativity.
Language Arts
Social Studies
Science
Math
Thinking and Planning
Multimedia/Web Site
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Inspiration helps students bridge the gap between visual and verbal modes of expression as they brainstorm, draft and revise their writing as in this literary analysis of The Cay. Students simply switch to Outline View to begin writing an essay.
A definition web gives students a deeper understanding of new vocabulary words or concepts, while comparing two books such as The Giver and Walk Two Moons strengthens students' analytical skills.
More language arts examples:
Book Comparison
Great Expectations
Hatchet Character Analysis
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Poem Analysis
Island of the Blue Dolphin
To Kill a Mockingbird Character Analysis
Tom Sawyer
Vocabulary: Serendipity
Write a Biography
Lesson plan samples:
Expository Text Structures
Persuade Me
Social Studies
In social studies classes, Inspiration helps students explore historical events and people, such as Rivalry in American Democracy, and understand cause and effect relationships as in the Causes Leading to World War I.
More social studies examples:
Southwest Asian Agriculture
Causes of the French Revolution
Chinese Dynasties
Comparison of French and American Revolutions
Comparison of Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
Concurrent Powers
Congress of Vienna
Dawn of the First Civilizations
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Euro
Factors of Immigration
Gutenberg Printing Press
Invention of the Refrigerator
Khmer Rouge
Landforms of Africa
Mesopotamian Civilizations
Native Americans
Recycling
Role of Family Comparison
The Silk Road
Thomas Jefferson
World War I Study Guide
Lesson plan samples:
Globalization
Analyzing Primary Source Documents
Science
Use Inspiration in science to deepen students' understanding of concepts, such as Newton's laws of motion. Creating a concept map helps students learn new information and build on their existing body of knowledge as they recognize the relationships between components.
Students use Inspiration to visually explore complex processes like the Nitrogen Cycle and organize information for better recall as in The Skeletal System.
More science examples:
Carbon Cycle
Chemical vs. Physical Change
Comparing Common Anions
Deer Population
Forms of Energy
Friction
Laws of Motion
Mass of an Electron
Measurement
Mixtures
Ozone
Plate Tectonics
Primates
The Scientific Process
Waves
Lesson plan sample:
Gain Momentum
Math
Inspiration visually explains concepts making difficult math problems easier to comprehend.
More math examples:
Second Degree Polynomials
Addition of Fractions
Prime Factoring
Probability
Thinking and Planning
Inspiration makes planning easy and productive, with a visual approach to brainstorming and organizing for both teachers and students.
Teacher planning
Inspiration is used to plan class projects, activities, lessons and units like the Flat Stanley language arts unit. Visual diagrams make it easy to understand and share a process, such as Creating a Webcast. The Template Wizard gives teachers step-by-step help to create customized visual learning activities to support any curricular area.
More thinking and planning examples:
Biography Paper
Creating a Webcast
KWL: War of the Roses
Planning a Cross-curricular Unit: Bridges
Planning a Nature Reserve Park
Preparing for a Speech: Luna Moth
Research Paper: Amazon Forest
Research Paper: World War I
Scope & Sequence Plan: 7th Grade Science
Student Portfolio
Trip Cost Planning
Unit Plan: Shakespeare
Unit Plan: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Multimedia/Web Site Diagrams
Plan and map out your next web site or multimedia project using Inspiration. With Inspiration you can easily set up live hyperlinks to a variety of files, helping you gather, manage and present multiple resources for projects like Macbeth.
After students lay out a site plan like Science Fair or Elwood Union Free School District, Inspiration's Site Skeleton® export instantly builds the bones of the new site, giving students a bridge from concept to basic HTML design.
More web site/multimedia planning examples:
Designing a School Web Site
Multimedia Presentation: The World of Cats
Organizing a Web Site: Let’s Learn About Plants
