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Multiple Intelligence: "All Summer in a Day"

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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?

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

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 [...]

The new year brings reflection and renewal – here’s how to put Tribes into those actions!

One of the common limitations of implementing the Tribes TLC® process in the classroom, school, or organization is consistency. The reality is, teachers and administrators have too much to do to allow time for one more thing. The balance of human relationships and educational benchmarks is skewed. Here are few suggestions for changing it up…toward [...]