FUEL YOUR STUDENTS' CURIOSITY BY HONORING THEIR SPARKS.

When we're engrossed in our sparks — our passions — we lose track of time. We want to learn, grow and discover. Use these materials in homeroom or any classroom that is looking to build community between students and connections with teachers.

What's Your Spark Educator Guide (20)
A twelve-page guide to building relationships and opening doors to learning by tapping into your students' "sparks" or passions. This guide provides activities, suggestions and research to support this concept.

Sparks Worksheets (20 of each)
Use the Seeing & Sharing Sparks and Guessing Sparks worksheets with the activities in the Educator Guide.

What's Your Spark Poster (20)
Insightful questions will invite students to write their sparks on this poster as an act of embracing their passions. Use this in homeroom or other places of community to encourage students to support each other in the pursuit of inspiration.

Colored Markers (1 set)
Everything's more fun in color! Have your students use these colored markers to share their sparks on the poster.

Clear Glasses (5 pairs)
Encourage your students to "see sparks" in themselves or others by looking through these glasses. Give these as prizes for participating in sparks activities, or to student leaders to make it "cool" to talk about sparks..

Spark Selfie Signs (20)
A fun way to exchange "sparks" via social media is to have students take photos of each other holding these signs that display their sparks. Use the #whatsyourspark hashtag to share with other students across the country! Click here to download the PDF.

Koosh® Ball (1)
After you've introduced the sparks activities, toss this around the classroom and ask students to catch the ball and shout out their sparks.

Educational Push Messages (1)
These messages can be used on Twitter or Facebook, in school announcements, newsletters and other communication resources. Push messages for this month are focused on identifying and honoring your passions. Click here to download the Word document.

Meme: #What'sYourSpark?
Use on your email blasts, Facebook, your district/school website or other social media sites to share this idea with your entire school and community. Click here to download this JPG file.

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