Design Maps For Learning
For enthusiastic, time-constrained educators, The Purple Pen is a learning map design tool that makes the planning of inspirational teaching easier. No learning design tool like this exists.
3 Free Maps
No purchase needed for your first 3 maps
What is The Purple Pen?
Through The Purple Pen, you can easily
- Design a unique learning map (for example, a syllabus, project plan, unit plan, week plan, or lesson plan)
- Invite others to join your learning map's design team
- Communicate with the design team about any decision
- Customize anything (!) in your learning map and its lesson plan
- Edit the aligned standards from your state
- Import from over 150+ common learning activities
- Establish the available instructional and homework time
- Teach the learning map from within any setting: classroom, virtual, or blended
Why choose The Purple Pen?
Innovative Approach
The Purple Pen believes in engaged, curiosity-driven learning. Through well framed driving questions, a Purple Pen learning map invites the student’s greatest asset into the learning process: curiosity.
Cognitive and Social/Emotional
The Purple Pen facilitates the design of learning maps that build cognitive, social, and emotional skills within students.
Learning for the Real World
Facilitating project-based and problem-based learning design, The Purple Pen prepares the student to think independently, critically, and creatively!
3 Free Maps
No purchase needed for your first 3 maps
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