Why?

Convert to Outlines

for writing

Ideas arethe

Focus

Organize,Update

orChange

Visual

Plan,Process

andPrioritize

• Brainstorming• KWL Charts

– What you Know– What you Want to Know– What was Learned

• Pre-Writing• Research Paper• Planning• Concept Mapping• Classification• Analogies• Comparisons

U

S

E

S

Brainstorming

New Idea

New Idea

New Idea

New Idea

New Idea

Rapid Fire

KWL Charts

Pre-writing…

Paragraphs

Brainstorm

Students

Organize

Analyze

Synthesize

Produce

Evaluate

Book Similarities and Differences

Comparing two books

Compare/Contrast

Visualize Poetry

Vocabulary

Writing a biography

Comparison of French and American Revolutions

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inventions

Scientific Process

Forms of Energy

MIXTURES

PROBABILITY

Multiplication

Prime Factoring

Research paper

Outline projects for your class

Flow charts

Operation Box(do something)

DecisionBox

(alwaysan answer of

yesorno)

Start or Stop

Flow chartsHOW TO KNOCK ON A DOOR

Steps1. Walk to the door2. Raise hand3. Make fist4. Knock on the door three times5. Wait6. Does anyone answer?Yes - go to step 7No - go to step 47. Say “hello”

Start

1

2

3

4

Stop

6

5

7

NO GO TO STEP 4

Flow chart Ideas

How to polish a carHow to set the dining room tableHow to keep score in tennisHow to average your gradesHow to measure the distance around a circleHow to make a cakeHow to use the potter’s wheel

Analogies

RESOURCES

www.inspiration.com

conference.merlot.org/conference/ 2004/presentations/merlotInspiration.ppt

A.C.T. Affective Cognitive Thinking

Classroom Instruction that Works