Looking for new ways to introduce content or begin your lessons?Discovery Education is a service available to teachers and students at GBAPS. Many may know it as resource to find videos. The list of resources available through Discovery Education go far beyond just videos. There are lesson plans, virtual field trips, and one of my favorites SOS Spotlight On Strategies. Example 1 - Half the ImageWhat do you think is in the image below? Don't cheat and look ahead. Try to image what the above image could be. In class you would provide students with part of the image, or zoom in on an image so they can only see a small portion of the complete image. Another option is to show them the left/right or top/bottom half of an image. The process is the same with the students pondering what is in the image and how it pertains to their lesson that day. The next step is showing them more of the image if you have only provided a small portion of the image and again engaging them in conversation about what it could be. With this image you might have a pretty good idea of what the image will be. There are multiple ways to use this strategy. It can be a bell ringer that serves as their writing prompt for the day. It could be an image that sparks deeper levels of conversation about historical events, a character in a book, environmental issues, or anything you can imagine. The thing I really like about this is it engages students in conversation where you see evidence of their thinking. In case I didn't give it away in the last image. Here is the full image. I didn't really have a great educational hook for the Robin other than maybe the state bird of Wisconsin and connecting to a social studies lesson on what makes Wisconsin great could be the discussion for the day. Spotlight on StrategiesSOS is a growing resources having new ideas and examples added weekly by teachers around the world. If you look at the slide presentation below there are images to help guide you through finding the SOS resources. Click on Professional Learning, the Strategies and Resources and you will find Spotlight on Strategies. There you will discover a multitude of examples created by classroom teachers. Each has a video explaining how to use the strategy. You can modify any of them to fit your needs.
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