Differentiation involves tailoring teaching methods, materials, and assessments to meet the diverse …
Differentiation involves tailoring teaching methods, materials, and assessments to meet the diverse learning needs of individual students within a classroom.*In this instance, differentiation will differ from scaffolding in that differentiation may result in different products based on student needs while scaffolding has students working towards the same goal or product. This resource has an overview of strategies and activities to support differentiated instruction.
Effective questioning entails asking the appropriate question (regarding difficulty, format, type, or …
Effective questioning entails asking the appropriate question (regarding difficulty, format, type, or comprehension) at the appropriate moment. Questions should serve one or more educational objectives, prioritize essential content, and stimulate thinking at a particular cognitive level.This resource includes a one-page overview of the strategy as well as activities to support the strategy.
In explicit teaching, teachers show students what to do and how to …
In explicit teaching, teachers show students what to do and how to do it. The teachers decide on the learning intentions and the success criteria and demonstrate them with modeling. In a flipped lesson, the teacher provides this explicit instruction in a video that students can watch and rewatch. Worked examples modeled by the teacher support students’ independent practice. This resource includes a one-page overview of the strategy as well as activities to support the strategy.
Feedback provides students with information about their performance and progress toward a …
Feedback provides students with information about their performance and progress toward a learning target or goal. Effective feedback is timely, specific, and actionable. This resource includes a one-page overview as well as several activities to support the activity.
Formative assessment is an instructional strategy that gathers ongoing feedback on student …
Formative assessment is an instructional strategy that gathers ongoing feedback on student learning to inform and adjust teaching practices. This resource has an overview and several supporting activities to support formative assessments.
Lesson goals explain what the students need to understand and what they …
Lesson goals explain what the students need to understand and what they must be able to do. These goals are written in a way that supports the student’s understanding of the success criteria, commits to the learning, and provides an appropriate mix of success and challenge.This resource includes a one-page overview of the strategy as well as activities to support the strategy.
Scaffolding* provides structured support, such as tools, strategies, or guidance, to help …
Scaffolding* provides structured support, such as tools, strategies, or guidance, to help students learn and master new concepts or skills, gradually fading that support as students become more proficient and independent learners.*In this instance, scaffolding will differ from differentiation in that scaffolding has students working towards the same goal or product while differentiation may result in different products based on student needs. This resource includes an overview and activities to support scaffolding.
Summarization involves condensing large amounts of information into a concise summary while …
Summarization involves condensing large amounts of information into a concise summary while retaining the main ideas and essential details. This resource has a one-page overview and activities to support summarization.
Art is often about making ideas and beliefs visible. For centuries, religions …
Art is often about making ideas and beliefs visible. For centuries, religions across the globe have used images to represent complex and abstract ideas about humankind's place in the cosmos. Students can use this interactive exercise to spend thoughtful time with a religious work of art and become curious about the way art can help communicate sacred and profound ideas.
Artworks can offer an opportunity to consider different perspectives. Artists are intentional …
Artworks can offer an opportunity to consider different perspectives. Artists are intentional about how they depict people alone or in groups. Spending time to look carefully at expressions, body language, and contextual clues in figural artwork can help students consider ideas about identity, community, and belonging. Use this interactive exercise to guide students as they explore a work by Kehinde Wiley, creatively document the ideas it presents to them, and consider how their thoughts connect with the artist's own ideas and intentions.
Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for …
Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for thoughtful inquiry and ideation. For students, documenting their ideas as they work to interpret an artwork offers the chance to exercise metacognition. With this interactive exercise featuring an artwork by Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, students are can gain insight into how they process information and formulate ideas.
Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for …
Spending time with a work of art can be an opportunity for thoughtful inquiry and ideation. For students, documenting their ideas as they work to interpret an artwork offers the chance to exercise metacognition. With this interactive exercise featuring an artwork from the Mughal Empire, students can gain insight into how they process information and formulate ideas. This activity is good practice for formulating research questions and synthesizing ideas.
Students will play an interactive game while learning how to be internet …
Students will play an interactive game while learning how to be internet smart. Students will learn the fundamentals of digital literacy: sharing, kindness, security, determining what's real and what's fake, and reporting. This game comes with a full curriculum guide: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-interland.appspot.com/en-us/hub/pdfs/Google_BeInternetAwesome_DigitalCitizenshipSafety_2019Curriculum.pdf
Teaching digital citizenship has never been more important. Prepare students to stay …
Teaching digital citizenship has never been more important. Prepare students to stay safe, solve problems and become a force for good.
Teaching digital well-being doesn’t mean providing students with a list of “don’ts.” It’s about the do’s – modeling and practicing skills that help young people become thoughtful, empathetic digital citizens who know how to use technology to learn and solve problems in their digital and physical communities.
The digital citizenship competencies, developed by the ISTE-led DigCit Coalition in conjunction with coalition partners, shift the conversation from don’ts to do’s.
In this lesson, students engage in a historical jigsaw activity focused on …
In this lesson, students engage in a historical jigsaw activity focused on westward expansion. The lesson ends with a coding project where students create “postcards” by coding with Twine, expressing the perspectives of different groups experiencing the effects of westward expansion.--
Passwords are crucual in our world today. They give us a simple …
Passwords are crucual in our world today. They give us a simple measure to protect ourselves and our information online. This lesson provides an intro into cybersecurity and its vocabulary, as well as incorporates independent, partner, and whole group learning activities to determine what is a strong password and how to create it. All activities are low prep and can be modified to your needs.
Learn about invasive plant and animal species, native species, and non-native species. Although …
Learn about invasive plant and animal species, native species, and non-native species. Although world ecosystems are in danger from a whole host of varied and distinct threats, there are few issues more difficult to tackle or more complex to understand than invasive species control. These species arrive in an ecosystem in which they are not native and have not evolved, with no existing space within the habitat. Invasive species may outcompete, overtake, or cause general harm and disruption to their new ecosystems. Elimination and control are a necessary part of conservation, everywhere from Virginia to the world’s most remote island. For more information and classroom activities, please visit The Wildlife Center of Virginia and VPM UNTAMED websites.
Today, you want to discuss how artists can help bring awareness of …
Today, you want to discuss how artists can help bring awareness of environmental changes through art. Introduce a few artists that use environmental change as their theme. It is a good idea to have several artists that use different kinds of mediums. Examples: Nils-Udo, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Shilling, Agnes Denes, Chris Jordan, Benjamin Von Wong, Olafur Eliasson, Amanda Schachter, Rachel Sussman, and Mathilde Roussel. These are some environmental artists of different backgrounds and diversity that work in different medians. Discuss how posters have been used to educate others on environmental changes. Show your teacher’s example of an educational and artistic environmental poster. Talk about your poster and the environmental concept that you chose as an example of not only the artwork but on a presentation as well.
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