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Multiple Intelligence: "All Summer in a Day"

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Multiple Intelligence (Circular Curriculum) for “All Summer in a Day”
**note: This learning experience is specifically about the short story “All Summer in a Day”. This activity follows reading the story. Students must know something about multiple intelligences, including their own.
GRADE: 7
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: poster paper; at least one class period of 90 minutes
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – [...]

Math Integers: Give Me a Clue

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Math Integers
GRADE: 6 – 8
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED:  Prepared clue cards – make your own or contact us for prepared examples.  20 minutes
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy:
IDENTIFY THE OBJECTIVES:
Content Standard: Develop meaning for integers and represent and compare quantities with them.
Collaborative: Solve problems, participate fully, work on tasks together
Personal: Practice [...]

Colon and Semicolon: Peer Response Huddle

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Colon and semicolon
GRADE: 4-9
TIME/MATERIALS:  create your own examples (or contact us if you want some!), 20 minutes
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy:
Introduce students to the strategy of Peer Response Huddle using current (celebrity) events. Examples: Who has been in the news recently because of their new baby? ( It [...]

Character Analysis/metaphor/pre-write

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Character analysis / metaphor /pre write
GRADE: 4 – 12
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: You will need to make signs on 11×8 ½ paper; 20 min.
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy: Review meaning of metaphor. Ask students, if you had to choose a candy bar to describe your mood today, what would you [...]

Math – fractions: People Hunt

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Math fractions
GRADE: 4
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: Fraction Hunt reproducible – contact us if you want this!  25 minutes
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy:
Ask: How many of you think fractions can be fun?
(Assure them that they will like something about this strategy, and put students in groups of four, no more. If [...]

Multiple Intelligence (Circular Curriculum) for “Beowulf”

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Multiple Intelligence (Circular Curriculum) for “Beowulf”.
**note: students must know something about multiple intelligences, including their own. This activity is appropriate after the material has been read. 7th graders read an abridged, teacher-created version of “Beowulf”. (Contact us if you want a sample of a teacher-created version.)
GRADE: 7 – 9
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: poster paper; at least [...]

Narrative Writing: Extended Nametag

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Narrative writing – organizing a pre-writing activity –
GRADE: : 3 – 7; modify accordingly (ex. one element for 3rd graders at first…)
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: 3 x 5 or 5 x 7 index cards.  30-35 min.
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy:
How many of you enjoy telling or hearing a good story? Ask [...]

Metaphors (bullying): Where Do I Stand?

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Metaphors (bullying)
GRADE: 4 – 12
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: You will need to make signs on 11×8 ½ paper; 20-40 minutes.
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy: (After you have taught the concept of “metaphor”) Ask students to share…”How can colors represent feelings?” Discuss how colors are metaphors for feelings. (You could [...]

Vocabulary Development: Chain Reaction

By Mary Palin · March 11, 2009 · Comments(0)

TITLE: Vocabulary development…synonyms, antonyms, pre-writing warm-up
GRADE: 2 – 12
MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: 15 – 20 min.
PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy:
Think-pair-share: Translate this sentence into everyday words – The juvenile was loquacious when it came to rendering paradigms of graphic lexis. [Translation: The young person was talkative when it came [...]