Designing Disney-Inspired Classrooms: Turning Your Classroom into a Magic Kingdom

Teaching with the Magic

Veteran educators Howie DiBlasi and Ryan Boeckman present the definitive guide to bringing Disney into your classroom, with history lessons, web quests, and over 200 learning activities that will rekindle the love of learning in your students.

Envision providing a Disney theme park as your classroom. Imagine the endless possibilities and the connections to just about any curriculum with your students. Anything can happen when you add a little faith, trust, and pixie dust to the classroom environment.

The book is filled with engaging and authentic ideas that will inspire your students, while providing to them an opportunity to dream, explore, design, create, and inspire.

The lessons and activities will scaffold into just about any project, or become a project on its own. Each of the activities is accompanied by narratives, background, multimedia, web links, and a wonderful visit to the park. It will provide ideas and resources for educators interested in applying authentic learning to curriculum standards, facilitating the ISTE standards, or even bringing Makers or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) ideas to the learning experience. Whether you use the entire book, or just specific chapters, there is bound to be some exciting and student centered magical learning brought to your classroom.

Through the use of easy-to-follow, standards-based activities, supported by a host of free, online resources, students will explore the streets, queues, and rides of every part of Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom as they are inspired to learn lessons across multiple content areas. From engineering and design thinking, to American history and creative writing, there’s something here for everyone that will allow you to transform your classroom into a magical kingdom of learning and fun.