What Is Ignite! Learning?

Ignite! Learning curriculum is designed to emphasize connections among concepts, making them "stickier" — easier to learn and remember. This is because we recognize that students learn by building conceptual bridges between new information and what they already understand. The Ignite! Math, Science, and Social Studies media libraries consist of movies, songs, animations, charts and graphs, and interactive pieces to engage students and promote a deeper understanding of key concepts. Ignite! Learning media goes far beyond "edutainment" to use instructionally sound practices to boost stickiness. From big-picture questions to intrinsic humor to mnemonic devices, our media engages students in a way that helps them really engage with and understand core curriculum concepts.

 

Ignite! Learning has designed its curriculum to achieve the following principles:

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• Accommodate diverse learning styles

• Challenge students to learn by doing

• Help students learn in context by unifying big-picture ideas

• Help students recognize relevance of material to their daily live

• Challenge students to demonstrate learning in a variety of ways
   

The comprehensive Ignite! Learning curriculum is made up of full standards-aligned Math, Science, and Social Studies courses, featuring 180 days of instruction. With over 3,000 media pieces and print lessons as well as enrichment activities, and frequent and varied assessment, our curriculum provides relevant instruction for your entire scope and sequence!

 

1. Lesson Plans: Ignite! Learning curriculum includes lesson plans to use when planning instruction.

2. Media: The Ignite! Learning media library consists of movies, songs, animations, charts, graphs, and interactive pieces to engage students and promote a deeper understanding of key concepts.

3. Student Activities: Each unit contains a unit challenge and student activities to develop critical thinking through discussion and written activities.

4. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills Activities: Ignite! Learning curriculum contains "whole-class" activities that help create a truly interactive classroom. Perfect for reinforcing difficult-to-learn concepts and important topics while fostering critical thinking.

5. Assessments: Test students' understanding of material through individual or whole-class assessments.  Ignite! Learning has over 18,000 formative assessment questions of a variety of question types built directly into the media aiding teachers in evaluating student understanding at the moment of instruction.

Integrated Print Materials

Student activities, academic vocabulary, formative and summative assessment including unit tests, teacher guides, and answer keys at your fingertips! Use in conjunction with the Ignite! Multimedia whole-class instruction system to extend lessons to individual students and small groups.

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Our Instructional Design Strategies
 

• Media Templates

• Media Deconstruction

• Narrative

• Humor

• Challenging Questions

• Pop Culture Formats

• Music

• Rhyme

• Metaphor