Welcome everyone to our new ARRL Education and Learning group! This group was created for you as a place to share ideas, ask questions, and discuss best practices regarding ways to implement amateur radio and wireless technology into classrooms. To help create a sense of community, lets use this thread as an introduction thread. I'll start. My name is Steve Goodgame, I am the new Education and Learning Manager at ARRL. I started this position in September. I taught in Texas and Mississippi for a combined total of 21 years, several of which I had the opportunity to teach amateur radio to my students, who I called my Padawans. I am passionate about getting youth into this great hobby. My favorite ham radio activity is activating parks for POTA with my daughter, Jherica (KI5HTA) and my wife, Cyndi (K5CYN)

One of the goals of this group is to create a resource for teachers to be able to post and find lesson plans/lesson ideas for individual standards. I will be posting a standard each week, in the hopes that people can create/post lesson plans or ideas that help to address the standard. We all know that teachers have to post lesson plans for administrators to see/approve. This is one hurdle that I think we can help overcome as a group. Eventually, I will take these and create a sort of repository that is searchable. I will start out with the ISTE standards, then will move onto other standards such as the NGSS, etc. In order to keep things organized, I ask that you please post your ideas as a message in each topic. For example, if there is a topic labeled ISTE 1.1, post your lesson ideas under that topic. If you have lesson ideas for other standards, please create the topic with a sort of standardized look, such as *ISTE 1.1* , *NGSS MS-PS3-1, etc.* Also, we know that teachers connect learning across multiple disciplines. We also know that principals like it when a lesson hits multiple standards. If a lesson/idea you post meaningfully hits multiple standards, it would be great if you could include those standards in the description. Let's all help each other out here, and make it easier to include amateur radio in schools! Links to the standards will be placed below, and updated regularly as this group grows. ISTE: https://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards-for-students NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards): https://www.nextgenscience.org/ -- Steve Goodgame K5ATA sgoodgame@... Education and Learning Manager American Radio Relay League

Here is a link to a basic lesson plan template. A few folks have asked for one. I don't want anyone to get hung up on making their ideas/lessons fit a certain template, you all do enough of that at school. For those who have a specific format you use, post them how you make them. I will modify things to standardize them down the road. For those who want a place to start, here is a link to a template on Google Drive. Make a copy of it so you will be able to edit it.. https://docs.google.com/document/d/15WqFt8nuCo9FmLtGgiol31VATOzpf_V4qkJ0msSmbmQ/edit?usp=sharing Thank you for everything you do for kids and amateur radio! 73 -- Steve Goodgame K5ATA sgoogame@... Education and Learning Manager American Radio Relay League