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LESSON BUILDER
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DESCRIPTION
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TEACHER’S ROLE
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INTERNET-BASED
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LINKS
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Active Learning
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Most like a traditional lesson plan.
Ideal for hands-on activities. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Design assessment and prepare Developer and student materials.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes/No
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Template
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Self-Assessment
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Fact-Finding Mission
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A high-interest and challenging method that guides students to search for key information about a single topic.
Integrates technology into the curriculum. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare Developer materials and design assessment.
- Prepare Search Instructions.
- Develop questions for students to answer.
- Identify Internet Places.
- Prepare Big Question.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes
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Self-Assessment
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Inquiry Challenge
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Brief activity for exploring a narrow and intriguing curriculum question.
Can be used as a formative assessment.
Integrates technology into the curriculum. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare Challenge Question.
- Identify Inquiry Materials.
- Prepare Hints.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes
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Self-Assessment
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Interview Design
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Student-centered method for gathering and sharing large amounts of class data in a way that is similar to how a written survey gathers information.
Prompts groups of students to ask and answer questions and then to analyze their collective findings. |
- Select a targeted topic and/or standard.
- Develop scaffolded questions.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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No
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Template
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Learning Circus
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Active, motivational, hands-on context for student-centered, collaborative inquiry.
Involves stations with activities that illustrate key concepts associated with a single broad unifying theme.
Students actively explore, discuss, and synthesize information. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare Developer materials and design assessment.
- Prepare student materials
- Identify activities.
- Prepare Task Cards (instructions).
- Prepare Student Discovery Guides (guided reflection questions).
- Gather materials/equipment.
- Identify safety concerns.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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No
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Self-Assessment
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Learning Cycle
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Five-stage learning cycle model developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study.
Learning cycle approach to instructional planning is geared toward producing student conceptual change.
Each step in a learning cycle incorporates activities designed to serve particular purposes. |
- Select topic or question.
- Identify content standard.
- Design appropriate assessment.
- Build the “5 E” lesson components by answering the Focusing Question and identifying subgoals.
- Identify opportunities for "Going Further".
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes/No |
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Problem-Based Learning Challenge
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Student centered activity focused on the resolution of authentic problem-solving situations.
Can be staged according to structured, guided or open problem solving levels.
Students actively explore, discuss, and synthesize information to reach original conclusions. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare Developer materials and design assessment.
- Prepare student materials
- Develop a challenge statement.
- Identify potential data sources, materials, and equipment.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes/No
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Levels of Problem-Based Learning
Templates
Level 1: Structured
Level 2: Guided
Level 3: Open
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Silver Screen
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Uses movies as a guide for introducing or considering content-based information.
Can be used to contrast books and movies, search for information, study character development.
Task is driven by the Movie Information sheet. |
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
- Prepare Developer materials and design assessment.
- Define Task.
- Prepare Movie Information Sheet.
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No
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Template
Self-Assessment
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Socratic Seminar
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A group discussion that is driven by questions focused on a piece of text, although “text” can be defined broadly to include a painting, graph, data set, math problem, as well as essays, poems, and short stories. The purpose of the seminar is to develop a deeper understanding of the text by sharing individual perspectives and interpretations. |
- Select topic, piece of "text" and standard.
- Prepare list of Guiding Questions.
- Serve as moderator or monitor, assess, and provide feedback to the group.
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No
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Self-Assessment
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Structured Controversy
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Used to investigate topics that have distinct and controversial alternatives.
Contrasting perspectives are documented with key articles/ websites that introduce major supporting arguments.
Group achieves consensus through compromise. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Describe the contrasting positions.
- Gather Internet and print resources.
- Coordinate the session.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes/No
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Self-Assessment
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Topic Splash
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Engaging method to explore opinions, attitudes, and information about a single topic.
Acquiring new knowledge is not necessarily a priority.
Integrates technology into the curriculum.
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- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare Developer materials and design assessment.
- Prepare student materials
- Write introduction.
- Identify subtopics.
- Prepare scaffolded questions or tasks.
- Identify corresponding Internet resources.
- Prepare summary statement.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes
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Template
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Self-Assessment
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Virtual Field Trip
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This lesson template can be used by teachers or their students to gather web resources that create an interesting pre- or post “visit” to an actual field trip destination or which substitute for a field trip when conditions preclude an in-person outing. |
- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare developer materials and design assessment.
- Prepare engaging student materials with graphics.
- Distribute Fieldtrip Permission form for parents.
- Design guiding question or problem statement for VFT.
- Prepare scaffolded questions for topics and subtopics.
- Identify corresponding Internet resources and check all hyperlinks.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes |
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Self-Assessment
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WebQuest
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A popular lesson framework that uses specific websites to complete a student task.
Integrates technology into the curriculum.
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- Select topic and standard.
- Prepare teacher and student materials.
- Write introduction.
- Prepare task.
- Identify appropriate Internet resources.
- Guide, monitor, assess, and provide feedback.
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Yes
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Template
Work Samples
Self-Assessment
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