Clark Creative Education: Engaging Resources for the Modern Classroom

Clark Creative Education offers a wide range of resources designed to make learning engaging, relevant, and fun for students of all ages. Founded by an experienced educator, their materials span various subjects, including math, social studies, language arts, and science, and are designed to cater to diverse learning styles and classroom environments. With a focus on real-world applications and creative activities, Clark Creative Education aims to help students connect the dots, understand the "why" behind the content, and enjoy demonstrating their knowledge.

The Vision Behind Clark Creative Education

Clark Creative Education was founded by an experienced teacher, principal, and curriculum coordinator with a background in high-need schools. Witnessing the critical need for student engagement and literacy, the founder dedicated their career to creating curriculum and activities that are both rigorous and engaging. This dedication stems from a rich professional background, including roles as an International Seminar Coordinator, assistant high school principal at an International High School, elementary school principal at a Spanish Immersion School, and K-12 curriculum coordinator. The founder also has a Bachelor's degree in education from Wright State University and a Master's from Ohio State in Educational Policy and Leadership and has started a Ph.D.

The science universe includes the publication of a wild animal conservation card game through Kickstarter that you might find at your local zoo!

Core Subjects and Resource Types

Clark Creative Education provides resources across multiple core subjects, each designed with a unique approach to engage students:

Math Resources

Clark Creative Math is designed to create authentic, engaging, applicable curriculum for all types of learners. Resources include 21st Century Math Projects, STEM-ersion activities, Mathlete Sports Tasks, CSI activities, TableTop games, Adventure activities, Boot Camp challenges, Escape activities, Person Puzzles, Whodunnits, Herowork, and Drive Instruction. These resources aim to show students how math is all around them in areas they never thought of before.

Social Studies Resources

Social studies resources are designed to be thought-provoking, real-world relevant, and fun. They help students see how social studies fits together, make sense of the "why," and enjoy explaining their ideas. These resources often include differentiated reading materials, guided notes, and ready-to-teach slides.

Language Arts Resources

The language arts resources include a wide variety of activities and worksheets designed to enhance any classroom. These resources cover grammar, punctuation, parts of speech, figurative language, and word skills for various grade levels.

Science Resources

The science resources are designed to engage students and promote cross-curricular collaboration, project-based, and inquiry learning.

Engaging Activity Styles

Clark Creative Education employs several engaging activity styles to cater to different learning preferences:

Whodunnits

Whodunnits are active skill practice activities in the style of Clue. As students answer questions, they eliminate a suspect, method, or location in hopes. If they solve the problems correctly, they can learn the identity of the criminal and the circumstances of the crime.

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Escapes

Escapes are pulse-pumping activities in the style of an escape-the-room experience. Students must piece together clues, compute as necessary, and unlock codes to receive the next envelope. Optional apps provide a blended experience to up the thrill.

CSI Activities

CSI activities are captivating review assignments where investigators encounter crime scenes, uncover clues, and apprehend a criminal. In math, they answer challenging puzzles. In ELA, they spot errors. In social studies and science, they identify fake news.

Digital Interactive Books

Digital Interactive Books include Drive Math, Engage Science, Fuse History, Bio Sphere, Wonders, Zoo Wild, and Sci Fi Squad resources. These are complete suites of teaching materials to take learning to another level. Not just digital, each resource contains printable resources to focus on vocabulary, concepts, skill practice, and imagination - even coloring for our youngest learners. For social studies and language arts topics, the content is written at three different reading levels for enrichment or remediation.

TableTops

TableTops are practice games that can be played in multiple game styles, including card games and board games. Each game has a different twist; play one or let the students choose!

Integration with Online Classrooms

Clark Creative Education resources are compatible with virtual teaching and distance learning. While teachers have been using their PDF files this way for years, they have built content optimized for Google Classroom. Clark Creative Education content integrates with Google Classroom, Schoology, and other online password-protected classrooms. You can also print everything!

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Testimonials and Feedback

Clark Creative Education has received over 50,000 pieces of 5-star feedback from happy classrooms. Teachers have praised the resources for their creativity, cross-curricular applications, and ability to engage students in ways that allow them to see how subjects like math are all around them.

One 6th-grade teacher noted that the resources were more engaging than complicated Breakout.edu challenges, while a high school teacher appreciated the blended classroom activities that maintained student interest.

Specific Examples of Resources

Lewis and Clark Expedition Resources

Clark Creative Education offers resources to bring the Lewis and Clark expedition to life. These resources include creative writing and historical simulation activities where students imagine themselves as members of the expedition and complete historically inspired journal entries along with a survival-based packing list. There is also a R.A.F.T. (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) creative writing project to wrap up a lesson about this famous moment in American History.

Additionally, there are close reading comprehension activities for third and fourth grade that explain who Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were, why they explored the Louisiana Territory, and what they discovered along the way. These activities are designed to build reading, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills while inspiring curiosity about exploration.

Clark the Shark Book Companion

This book companion makes self-control come alive for young learners. It helps to build classroom expectations through story-based learning, making it a fun, relatable way to teach students how to manage their emotions and behavior.

Membership Options and Purchasing

Clark Creative Education offers both annual and lifetime memberships, which include the same content. The annual plan requires a yearly fee to maintain access, while the lifetime membership provides permanent access. New materials are added regularly.

If you are not ready for a membership, you are invited to try resources individually on TeachersPayTeachers. Clark Creative Education offers $ for $ Credit of TpT purchases toward a membership.

A Commitment to Educator Satisfaction

Clark Creative Education strives to make teachers happy and offers a Money-Back Guarantee. They also accept Purchase Orders for school and district licenses.

Supporting Teachers in Unprecedented Times

Recognizing the challenges faced by teachers and students, Clark Creative Education has been building more content optimized for Google Classroom. They are committed to providing resources that are compatible with virtual teaching and distance learning.

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