Add POP to Your Curriculum

Add POP to Your Curriculum

Use web based media and multimedia applications to build student interest and relevance into your lessons with Pop Culture icons, trends and fads. This workshop will offer easy to use web resources and applications for any age students and any discipline. The teacher will walk away with a treasure trove of ideas on how to infuse Pop Culture references into their curriculum to assist in the understanding of key concepts, develop critical thinking, inference skills, interpretation skills, and vocabulary recognition. The participants will review examples such as how to study political viewpoints using the Simpsons, math with Ma and Pa Kettle or Sponge Bob, language with scenes from movies spanning 40-years of slang, or the science of Star Wars. Participants will leave with ready to use materials and a wealth of resources to build their own Pop Culture lessons for their curriculum.

Workshop Objectives
         Participants will:

• develop a resource bank of pop culture images, videos, and artifacts that bring student interest and relevance to their current curriculum.
• develop skills in incorporating pop culture icons, trends and fads into generating new lessons.

ITLS Standards:    A.x.2, A.x.4, B.x.4, D.x.3

Presenter:             Bill Gill, Social Studies Teacher, Portage High School

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TechnoBlast to the Future is a Summer 2010 Technology Academy sponsored by the CESA 5 Ed Tech Formula Grant Consortium.
CESA 5 Ed Tech Consortium Districts: Almond-Bancroft, Auburndale, Cambria-Friesland, Lodi, Montello, Necedah, Nekoosa, New LIsbon, Pardeeville, Pittsville, Port Edwards, Princeton, Rio, Waupaca, Westfield, and Wild Rose.

Full day workshops for educators will provide hands-on experience with information and technology resources. Each workshop will provide classroom examples, skill development with structured practice activities, and time to develop a lesson or classroom activity for your classroom. Participants choose one full-day workshop for each day they attend. Participants may attend just a single day or two, three, or four days.  Lunch and breaks are included.

Location:  Westfield Area High School, N7046 County Road CH, Westfield

Fee:  $20 per day for educators from CESA 5 Ed Tech Formula Grant Consortium Districts.
Educators from other CESA 5 districts may register beginning May 1st on a space available basis. Registration fee will be $50 per day.

Optional Viterbo University credit @ $90 per credit is available for attendance at the Academy (2 days = 1 credit; 4 days = 2 credits) plus a completed lesson plan per credit plus daily reflections.

Questions on the workshops ? contact Sue Fulks fulkss@cesa5.k12.wi.us
Questions on registration or payment ?  contact Janet Gaber gaberj@cesa5.k12.wi.us 608/742-8814, ext. 277

Cancellation Policy: Registered participants will receive a full refund if they cancel before 10 working days before an event, minus any material costs that have already been incurred. Because of our commitment to the trainer and the food vendor, participants who cancel less than 10 working days or do not attend, will be billed the full fee. CESA 5 reserves the right to cancel any event. Registered participants will be notified via email if a cancellation occurs and will receive a full refund. Inclement weather policy: Every effort will be made to hold an event. CESA 5 will notify participants via email as soon as possible if an event has been canceled due to weather conditions.