The Atomic Community
So far, we’ve looked at how to organize and plan your own material using the Atomic Teaching method, but working in complete instances of teaching comes with another big advantage: It’s highly shareable. LessonStack makes the process of sharing easy in two main ways: the Teams page and the Discover page.
The Discover Page
To see the Discover page, navigate to LessonStack and click on the ‘Discover’ link (https://lessonstack.net/discover) in the main menu . Once on the Discover page you will see activities made by other teachers. From here you can browse, search and read a range of activities. If you find an activity that you like, you can either make a copy of it for yourself by clicking the copy button, or simply drag the activity straight onto one of your LessonStacks that will be listed in the menu.
If you find a teacher you like, you can click on their avatar and go their profile page to browse their activities.
Figure 8: The Discover Page, here you will find activities made by other teachers. Preview an activity by clicking on it, or visit the teacher’s profile by clicking on their avatar. If you find an activity you like you can make a copy, or drag it straight into one of your LessonStacks in the right hand menu.
Copying Activities
When you copy an activity created by another LessonStack user, a copy is added in your own Activity page that contains a reference to the original author. You can safely edit this copy to suit your own needs without affecting the original.
For activities to appear on the Discover page, they must satisfy a few basic criteria:
- They must be set to public by the author,
- They must have content in the Objective, Activity and Check For Proficiency fields.
This criteria is likely to change over time as LessonStack grows, details will be updated on the website.
Activities on this page will range from the tried and tested to the initial experiment. On LessonStack we believe it is important to see how other teachers work, including both mature teaching activities and experiments. Doing so shines a valuable light onto the planning process.
