Susie spent hours collecting and curating resources for her upcoming unit on cells. She is able to successfully use much of what she has found when implementing her plans.
The following year, when it is time to begin the unit on cells, Susie forgets about the resources she curated. She essentially starts from scratch, performing the task of searching, saving, and sorting once again.
Create a plan or provide suggestions for ways to make your curated resources a regular part of your planning.
Based on what I have to do to write plans and make them available to my principal, I would include a section on technology. In other words, I would suggest to Susie that every week in her plans that she include a list of technology uses or resources. As she does this regularly, she will remember each week to either look back on previous years' plans or just simply remember that she has researched and curated resources.
Furthermore, a person who regularly does this will have a regular system for logging their findings, such as Google docs. So, there are two habits I recommend for Susie that repetition will make easier: citing resources on a regular basis, thus tripping her memory about previous research; and keeping all unit resources in folders somewhere such as Google docs.
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