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.
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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: These Happy Golden Years and My Antonia
Character Analysis Concept Map: Great Expectations
Character Analysis: Hatchet
Poetry Analysis: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Book Report: Island of the Blue Dolphin
Character Analysis: To Kill a Mockingbird
Character Analysis: Tom Sawyer
Building Vocabulary Web: Serendipity
Prewriting Plan: Steps to Writing a Biography
Lesson plan samples:
Determining Essential Information: Expository Text Structures
Peruasive Writing Plan: Persuade Me
Social Studies
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:
Research Web: Southwest Asian Agriculture
Root Cause Analysis: French Revolution
Civilizations Study Guide: Chinese Dynasties
Historical Periods Comparison: French and American Revolutions
Historical Figures Comparison: Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
Civics Compare and Contrast: Concurrent Powers
Research Concept Map: Congress of Vienna
Study Guide: Dawn of the First Civilizations
Historical Figure Research: Eleanor Roosevelt
Economics Research Concept Map: The Euro
Push-Pull Analysis: Factors of Immigration
Inventions Concept Map: The Refrigerator
Historical Period Research: Khmer Rouge
Landforms Research: Africa
Study Guide: Mesopotamia
Cultural Analysis Tree: Native Americans
Research Web: Recycling
Family Roles Comparison: India and China
Research Web: The Silk Road
Historical Figure Study Guide: Thomas Jefferson
Historical Event Study Guide: World War I
Lesson plan samples:
Globalization: Mapping Our Stuff Graphic Organizer
Historical Documents: Analyzing Primary Sources
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
Compare and Contrast: Chemical vs. Physical Change
Comparing Common Anions
Cause and Effect Analysis: Deer Population Change
Study Guide Web: Forms of Energy
Study Guide Concept Map: Friction
Study Guide Concept Map: Laws of Motion
Taking Notes Web: Mass of an Electron
Taking Notes Concept Map: Measurement
Taking Notes Concept Map: Mixtures
Study Guide Concept Map: Ozone
Taking Notes Concept Map: Plate Tectonics
Classification Web: Primates
Process Flow: The Scientific Process
Taking Notes Concept Map: Waves
Lesson plan sample:
Studying Physics Concept Map: Gain Momentum
Math
Inspiration visually explains concepts making difficult math problems easier to comprehend.
More math examples:
Tree Diagram: Second Degree Polynomials
Process Map: Addition of Fractions
Process Map: Prime Factoring
Tree Diagram: 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 Web Quest. 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:
Concept Map: Biography Paper
Process Plan: Creating a Web Quest
KWL Tree: War of the Roses
Cross-curricular Unit Plan: Bridges
Planning Web: Nature Reserve Park
Speech Preparation Web: Luna Moth
Research Paper Plan: Amazon Forest
Research Paper Plan: World War I
Scope & Sequence Plan: 7th Grade Science
Student Portfolio: 7th Grade
Budget Plan: Trip to Charleston
Unit Plan Right Tree Diagram: Shakespeare
Unit Plan Right Tree Diagram: Holes by Louis Sachar
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:
Web Site Plan: Content for School Web Site
Multimedia Presentation: The World of Cats
Web Site Organization: Let’s Learn About Plants
