Memory is enhanced by paying attention to and developing:
connections
organization
dual coding (teachers and students)
exercise and elaboration
What is PBL?
What does PBL look like?
What are the Benefits?
How do I create A PBL?
PBL in Sun West
Similarities and differences between Problem Based Learning and Project Based Learning
A Progressive Muscle Relaxation is a great way to relieve anxiety and stress in your body by having you slowly tense up your muscles and then gradually relax them again. This helps us to relax by making us focus on our muscles and how they feel when we relax them from a ‘tensed up state.’ When we practice progressive muscles relaxation regularly, it becomes a valuable tool we can use to help us to relax and calm our body. It will also help us to be able to recognize when our body is experiencing tension and then be able to relax it. The resource includes instructions and how progressive muscle relaxation works.
In this PBL students were given the role of meteorologists. Students need to track weather locally and from around the world, create weather instruments, collect local weather data using the instruments they created, and present their findings in a mock weather broadcast.
Students needed to collaborate and think critically to create devices, to decide on what data to track and how to present their weather forecast to the public
This article attempts to declutter proportionality by having students think about varying quantities and to investigate patterns so they can describe quantities in terms of proportional relationships. Students encounter proportional relationships in their everyday world, and the article provides examples of where these relationships surface and how we can approach building strong ways of thinking. The power of modeling with mathematics is highlighted.
Science Background:
Any chemical reaction that results in atoms having their oxidation numbers changed is called a redox (reduction-oxidation) reaction. Oxidation describes either the loss of electrons or hydrogen, or the increase of oxygen or oxidation state of a molecule. Reduction describes the gain of electrons or hydrogen or the loss of oxygen or decrease of the oxidation state of a molecule. It is not entirely accurate, but the reaction can be roughly described by saying that the Oxidizing agent (potassium permanganate) “wants” more electrons and accepts them from the Reducing agent (glycerol) which wants to give them up.
Materials: potassium permanganate, glycerin, crucible or watch glass
QR Code Podcast
QR Costs in the Classroom
Directions: Create questions by using one word from the left hand column and one word from the top row. The farther down and to the right you go, the more complex and high-level the questions.
Materials to develop questioning strategies while reading.
The RAFTs Technique (Santa, 1988) is a system to help students understand their role as a writer, the audience they will address, the varied formats for writing, and the expected content. It is an acronym that stands for:
Role of the Writer - Who are you as the writer? Are you Sir John A. Macdonald? A warrior? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? The endangered snail darter?
Audience - To whom are you writing? Is your audience the Canadian people? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper? A local bank?
Format - What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified ad? A speech? A poem?
Topic + strong Verb - What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is it to persuade a goddess to spare your life? To plead for a re-test? To call for stricter regulations on logging?
Almost all RAFTs writing assignments are written from a viewpoint different from the student's, to another audience rather than the teacher, and in a form different from the ordinary theme. Therefore, students are encouraged to use creative thinking and response as they connect their imagination to newly learned information.
The purpose of RAFTs is to give students a fresh way to think about approaching their writing. It occupies a nice middle ground between standard, dry essays and free-for-all creative writing. RAFTs combines the best of both. It also can be the way to bring together students' understanding of main ideas, organization, elaboration, and coherence...in other words, the criteria by which compositions are most commonly judged.
This chart takes the KWL chart to a new level.
Rethinking the KWL
The RAN Strategy
Using the RAN strategy for writing Links
This site houses the training videos for The Sun West Resource Bank.
Come here to learn how to:
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An interactive globe that has radio stations from all over the world. Tune in to hear talk radio, songs, or all sorts of other things. Available online or as an app from Google Play or Apple.
On November 25th, the Grade 1-2’s invited their parents in to participate in a
simulated tour through the rainforest, which was set up in our classroom. The kids
created models of all the animals we studied in our unit, and helped me create
a rainforest canopy, and river in our room. We strategically placed the animals,
turned off the lights (rainforests are dark), and played a rainforest soundtrack to
help with the simulation. The kids carried flashlights while touring their parents
around the room. Afterwards, they were asked to sit down with their parents and
go through a “King of the Rainforest” Questionnaire (which was really a study
guide).
Lesson Plan includes: reading the background information on Edgar Allen Poe and a summary of “The Raven”, watching The Simpsons recreation of the classic poem, watching a video on figurative language, reading the poem and identifying figurative language found throughout, and creating a figurative language storyboard.
What issues does the world of “ Iphones, Ipads, etc” bring to our family relationships? Students create a Reader's Theatre
A ruburic to indicate levels of completion in reading strategies.
