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After starting a new unit and showing students the rules and general objectives, I'll have students demonstrate different
game situations and scenarios to the rest of the class. I feel this walk through helps everyone. Students observing will
answer questions and make rulings while those modeling learn by doing as well as hearing responses from their peers.
By: Mr. Carlson
Objectives written as Essential Questions
Use as an organizer to set the focus of the lesson or unit. Essential questions are initiators of creative and critical thinking. Tips for creating an essential question:
1. It has no one obvious 'right' answer.
2. it recurs throughout one's learning and linked to other essential questions.
3. It is higher-order thinking.
4. It is framed to provoke and sustain student interest.
Synopsis: I recently started getting lesson plan ideas from EDSITEment. It is a site sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to history, they have lesson ideas for language arts, foreign languages, and art.
Recommended by: Mr. Firsching
Synopsis: I Nearpod is an app that has lessons you can use that incorporate technology.
Recommended by: Mrs. Rice
Synopsis: Better Lesson provides lessons based upon individual standards in math, English or science. In science it also bundles the next generation science standards based upon grade level. the lessons are free and are critiqued by other teachers.
Recommended by: Mr. Grau
Synopsis: I use Teachers pay Teachers all the time to buy and sell lesson plans.
Recommended by: Mrs. Rice
Synopsis: Kahoot is a popular website I'm sure many of us have used for review. To change things up a bit, I use a Jumble review instead of a standard review. For this game the students are given four pieces that they need to put in the correct order. I used it for the rewriting of sentences which wasn't as effective as I would have liked because there could have been multiple answer and I can only provide one order for the pieces. this was a good change of pace for the students and I think it would be very effective for the review of processes or other items that require a specific order.
Recommended by: Mrs. Brouwer
Evaluation Tools
A universal rubric that will assist you with grading the FORMAT of a research paper.
The LB Jr/Sr High's rubric for presentations. It was created to have consistency in all classes on expectations.
This is a TEMPLATE of a form students can fill out to 'grade' themselves.
Essential Question Examples
Is it true that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it?
Do the arts reflect or shape culture?
How does technological change influence people's lives?
How can we keep government responsive to its citizens' needs and interests?
Is new technology always better than that which it will replace?
What would happen if people couldn't read?
Must a story have a moral?
Is history the story told by the 'winners'?
How can abuse of power be avoided?
How do maps and globes reflect history, politics, and economics?
How do our personal stories reflect varying points of view and inform contemporary ideas and actions?
Can fiction reveal truth?
What do good readers sound like?
Do statistics lie?
How do personal and civic responsibilities differ?
Should ___________ be restricted or regulated?
How and why do beliefs change?
What patterns are reflected in the groupings of things?
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