Concept maps

Spider, family tree, cluster, cloud

Vocabulary cards/charts

Vocabulary chart– you can add origin alsoCan be used for vocabulary in any domain For example: chemistry, maths, computers

KWHL

KWHL – learning through enquiryWhat I Know, Want to learn, How to learn,

LearntGood as a guide to a topic before, after class

What do you KNOW about electricity?

What do you WANT to know?

HOW will you find out? (What investigations might you try?)

(After activities) What did you LEARN?

Broken bulbs noisy when shaken.

     

Turn switch on - bulb lights.How many batteries will it take to burn out a bulb?

Add batteries to a circuit until the bulb burns out.

Six 1.5-volt D cells will burn out the small light bulb.

Loose bulbs don't light.      

Compare/contrastMatrix

Compare contrast Venn diagram

Fishbone diagram

Then there are

Flowcharts – all algorithmic thinking

Cycles – in operating systems, DBMS

Continuum -

Pie charts

And to beat it

Use by teacher and students

By teacher: GOs already prepared and displayed as charts Making while explaining

By students As a small project/assignment for a group End of class to assess understanding – can divide parts to

groupsGive fully or partially blank GO for students to fillWrite text but don’t show the relationshipsAsk them to find mistakes in a GODifferent levels of activity for differently abled students

Use it to revise

A teaser

Two very popular and common objects have the same function, but one has thousands of moving parts, while the other has absolutely no moving parts. What are they?

Active learning – without moving

– Paired problem solving – one speaks, other solves

– Start and finish

– Twenty questions

– Back-to-back descriptions

Active learning – group and movementJigsaw – fit it together

– MasterMind – in a group one student becomes expert

– One-by-one

– I-P-O – for programming

– Flash cards – memory games, sequencing etc

Seeking feedback when students don’t want to talk/ask

• One minute paper• Muddiest point• Questions by group on a bench – slowly

progressing to individual• Inter group quiz