Concept maps Spider, family tree, cluster, cloud

Vocabulary cards/charts Vocabulary chart– you can add origin also Can be used for vocabulary in any domain For example: chemistry, maths, computers

KWHL KWHL – learning through enquiry  What I Know, Want to learn, How to learn, Learnt  Good 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/contrast Matrix

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 groups Give fully or partially blank GO for students to fill Write text but don’t show the relationships Ask them to find mistakes in a GO Different 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 movement Jigsaw – 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