2. Try some procedures that get every child involved: –Pose the question before saying a students’ name –Random Name Callers http://tinyurl.com/692tlxh –Remember Wait Time –Use Paired Responses (A/B partner response) –Use choral responses –Use hand signals (thumbs up/down) –Use response cards –Use response systems

3. Get to Know Your Students’ Interests! –Informal Conversations –Interest Inventories o http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail /?id=35571 http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail /?id=35571 o https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=475 167 https://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=475 167 o Getting To Know Your Students 9

4. #7 DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats

5. Process Facts Feelings Creativity Benefits Cautions

6. Blue: How will we organize our work? What thinking is needed? How did it go? White: What are the facts? Are the facts reliable? What other information is needed? How do I find out? Red: How do I feel about this? What is my gut feeling? Green: What new ideas do we have? What are the possibilities? What are your best hopes? Yellow: What is positive? What is valuable? Why is it useful? Black: What are the problems? What are the risks? What are the weaknesses?

7. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats: Use each of the hats to consider this issue: BYOD—Students bring your own device to school to use for technology.

8. Assign each person at the table one hat to “wear”. Jot down ideas from your hat’s perspective. When the timer begins, share your thoughts in round robin fashion, beginning with the White Hat. With Your Table Group…

9. http://classtools.net/fb/home/page

10. Fakebook

12. 21 Digital Tools to Build Vocabulary http://www.learningunlimitedllc.com/2013/02/20-digital- tools-for-vocabulary/http://www.learningunlimitedllc.com/2013/02/20-digital- tools-for-vocabulary/

13. Tagxedo www.tagxedo.com Variation on wordle Shapes

15. 4 I have everything described in level 3, AND I go beyond what was directly taught in class. 3 I have all the simple information, AND I have no major errors on the complex knowledge directly taught in class. 2 I have the simple, yet important information, BUT I have major errors on the more complex knowledge. 1 I make major mistakes. I just don’t understand it yet. 15

16. Form for Setting Personal Goals Name: Avery DeMarco My goal: A score of 4.0 by the end of the unit. What will I do to accomplish my goal? I will work on my presentation of how heritable and nonheritable traits affect each other for at least ten minutes each night. How well am I doing? I’m not keeping up with my plan to work 10 minutes each night. I have to stop watching TV so much.

17. Date__9/17_Date_9/24_Date_10/1_Date_10/20_ Date_10/31_ Date_11/15_Date_______ Date______ 43214321 My Progress in Writing Process—Content and Organization Goal Achievement Effort

18. Examining Effort and Preparation 4 To be sure I accomplish my goal, I’m trying harder and preparing more than I think is necessary. 3 I’m trying hard enough and preparing well enough to accomplish my goal. 2 I’m trying hard but not preparing as well as I could. 1 I’m not trying very hard or preparing very well. 0 I’m not really trying or preparing at all.

19. TABOO This favorite game is a great tool for students to practice vocabulary and summarize. The object is to get someone to say the word using clues that don’t use the “taboo” words. president Obama White House Republican Washington Lincoln 19

20. TABOO Adverb Adjective Modify Part of speech Time Verb Latitude & Longitude Lines Map Globe Parallels Prime Grid Latitude & Longitude Lines Map Globe Parallels Prime Grid

21. Teachers or students can make cards –Higher level thinking with student-made cards Index cards work well Play demonstration game Pairs, small groups, entire classroom with two teams The more “taboo” words, the more difficult the game Taboo

22. Who am I? o Teacher makes note cards with one person or vocabulary word they’ve studied in class on each card. o Students are in pairs. Student A chooses a card holds it on their forehead, showing Student B. Student A must ask yes or no questions of Student B to determine their person or vocabulary word.

23. Who am I? o Let’s play! o In your group, pick one person to turn away from the screen. o The name appears on the screen. o The “It” person asks yes or no questions until he or she answers correctly.

24. Who Am I? Lady Gaga

25. Vietnam War

26. Things associated with weather Tornado Hurricane Cold front Cumulus clouds Sleet Barometer El Nino

27. Things associated with oceans Waves Moon Algae Pacific Ships Tropical fish George Clooney

28. Rivers of the World Nile Missouri Thames Hudson Amazon Mississippi Swanee

29. Things associated with plants Photosynthesis Foliage Stems Fertilizer Chlorophyll Pollinate Chia pets

30. v Things associated with 2008 Presidential Election Primaries Barack Obama John McCain National Conventions “I approved this message” Sarah Palin Joe Biden

31. Things associated with autumn Fall Foliage Football Back-to-school Halloween World Series Thanksgiving Fireplaces

32. Things associated with June First Day of Summer Vacation Thunderstorms Flag Day Graduations Gemini and Cancer Father’s Day

33. Things associated with May May Day Graduations Flowers Memorial Day Thunderstorms Sunshine Cinco de Mayo

34. Things associated with April Rain Showers April Fool’s Day Income Tax Baseball Season Spring Fever “Take Your Child To Work” Day Flowers

35. Things associated with March Snow St. Patrick’s Day March Madness Wind Daylight Savings Time Lion/Lamb Spring

36. Things associated with Valentine’s Day Hearts Candy Roses Jewelry Love Be Mine Cupid

37. Things associated with February 1 6 5 2 7 4 3

39. Things associated with earth science 1 6 5 3 2 7 4

40. Things associated with science Oxygen Carbon Monoxide Helium Neon Rotate Revolve Atom

41. Things associated with Winter Break Snow Sleep Presents Santa Claus New Year’s Eve Chestnuts Shopping

42. Things associated with August Back-to-School Hot Weather Football Season Martha Stewart’s Birthday Anniversary of Elvis Presley’s Death Professional Development Alarm Clocks

43. Things associated with May May Day Thunderstorms Graduation TV Sweeps Week Memorial Day Cinco de Mayo Flowers

44. Things associated with August Back-to-school Dogs Days of Summer Football Season Professional Development Anniversary of Elvis Presley’s Death Anniversary of “I Have a Dream” Speech Anniversary of Princess Diana’s Death

45. Things associated with January New Year’s Day Martin Luther King American Idol Snow New Year’s Resolutions Football Capricorn

46. Things associated with Thanksgiving Turkey Cranberry sauce Football Indigestion Shopping Pilgrims Pie

47. Things associated with “October” Halloween Football Autumn World Series Falling Leaves Fireplace Pumpkins

48. Things associated with April Showers April Fool’s Day Income Tax Baseball Season Tornadoes Spring Breaks Easter Bunny

49. Things associated with March First Day of Spring St. Patrick’s Day Lion, Lamb “March Madness” Flowers Academy Awards Lent

51. U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln George Washington Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Richard Nixon Bill Clinton Dwight Eisenhower

52. Things associated with math Equation Addition Subtraction Equals Division Bar graph Pi

53. Authors/Poets John Steinbeck William Shakespeare Mark Twain Stephen King Emily Dickinson Ernest Hemingway Maya Angelou

54. Things associated with fiction Character Plot Setting Dialogue Foreshadowing Metaphor Theme

55. Things associated with the topography Plateau Mountain Bay Canyon Lake Mesa Forest

56. Things associated with today Achievement Gap Building Background Knowledge Nonlinguistic Pyramid Vocabulary Consistency Quadratic Equation

57. Things associated with Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Globe Theater To be or not to be Hamlet Midsummer Night’s Dream “A rose by any other name…” Tragedy

58. Things associated with the Internet Google Search Engine Wiki RSS Home Page A I M Blog Link

59. Things associated with basketball Free throw Michael Jordan North Carolina Traveling Shaq Harlem Globetrotters Dribble

60. Things associated with math Circumference Diameter Square Rectangle Right triangle Hypotenuse Rhombus

62. 1 Famous people 6 5 3 2 7 4

63. 1 4 3 65 7 2

64. Math Terms 14/16 1/3 3/4 6/12 1 6 5 3 2 7 4

65. 1 6 5 3 2 7 4 Countries of the World

66. 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 Love Stories

67. Famous people 1 2 6 5 3 7 4

68. 1 2 6 5 3 4 7

69. 1 2 6 5 3 4 States 7

70. 1 4 3 2 5

71. 2 1 3 4 5 6 7 Born and/or raised in Connecticut

73. U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln George Washington Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Richard Nixon Bill Clinton Dwight Eisenhower

74. 1 2 6 5 3 4 7 World War 2

75. 1 2 65 3 4 7

76. 1 2 65 3 4 7

78. Things associated with January 6 5 32 7 4 1

79. 1 2 6 5 4 7 3 Tourist Attractions

80. 1 2 6 5 3 4 7 World War 2

81. Famous people 1 2 6 5 3 4 7

82. 1 2 65 3 4 7

83. 1 2 65 3 4 7

84. 1 4 3 2 5

85. Things associated with physics Force and motion Isaac Newton Gravity Pulleys Matter Friction Magnet

86. Things associated with Halloween Costume Witch Candy Dracula Scary Trick or treat Goblins

87. Things associated with England Tea Princess Diana Big Ben Castles London BBC Henry VIII

89. respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system, skeletal system Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Nile River, English Channel cell, mitosis, nucleus, cell wall sun, Mercury, solar system, meteor

91. respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system, skeletal system Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Nile River, English Channel cell, mitosis, nucleus, cell wall computer, mouse, blog, wiki

92. United States, Canada, England, India inch, foot, yard, mile Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Chicago oxygen, carbon dioxide, helium, neon

93. Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, Alps, Pyrenees Sun, Mercury, solar system, meteor Fraction, 3/10, numerator, 4/5=8/10 Drums, cymbals, marimba, tambourine

95. Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Alabama Symmetrical, parallel, perpendicular, congruent Solar system, meteor, orbit, Saturn Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Sadam Hussein

96. England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales World War II, Vietnam, Revolutionary War, Desert Storm Cuba, Spain, Japan, Chile Plot, character, setting, author

97. respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system, skeletal system tornado, cold front, hurricane, sleet Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Nile River, English Channel cell, mitosis, nucleus, cell wall

99. Percussion Instruments Capital cities Things associated with A Tale of Two Cities Parts of speech Bays Things Vincent Van Gogh would say 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

100. Lakes Parts of a cell Lines from Shakespeare plays Music composers Books by Mark Twain Countries in Africa 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Terms & Details

101. Coffee Drinks Measure- ments of a circle Things associated with the Renaissance Characteristics of mammals Books by John Steinbeck International Organizations 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

102. Synonyms for “happy” Titles of plays Things that happened in the 1970’s Shapes Things associated with Harry Truman Amphibians 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

103. Super Bowl winners Things a paleontologist would say Things that happened in the 1960’s Battles Things associated with To Kill a Mockingbird Ceremonies 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

104. Ways of walking Systems Lines from poems Things that an economist would say Things found in ancient Egypt 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases Sources of energy

105. 100 POINTS Things that are living Liquids Prime numbers Parts of the digestive system Things that conduct heat 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases Adverbs 100 POINTS

106. Fractions Parts of the solar system Countries in Asia Punctuation marks Sources of energy Types of Internet sites 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

107. Things in the sky Famous generals Positions in the President’s Cabinet News anchors Types of sentences TV Westerns 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

108. Missions in California Fairy tales Locations of Olympics Things associated with the stock market Provinces of Canada “Wonders of the World” 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases

109. Sports that are played with rackets Countries in South America Things that magnify Styles of architecture 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases Artists Theories about why dinosaurs became extinct

110. Things associated with Wisconsin Reality TV Shows Things that spin Properties of matter 50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Vocabulary Terms & Phrases Women sports stars Software

111. Things associated with “yesterday” Guaranteed and viable curriculum Motivation Jeopardy Instruction Graphic organizer Home environment Feedback

112. Charades

113. Things associated with Halloween Costume Witch Candy Dracula Scary Trick or treat Goblins

114. Things associated with Thanksgiving Turkey Cranberry sauce Football Indigestion Shopping Pilgrims Pie

115. Things associated with St. Patrick’s Day Green St. Patrick’s Day Shamrocks Leprechauns Beer Ireland Parade

116. Things associated with Valentine’s Day Cupid Heart Chocolate Be Mine Hershey Kisses Roses Romantic dinner

117. Rivers Nile Missouri Thames Hudson Amazon Mississippi Swanee

118. Things associated with oceans Waves Moon Algae Pacific Ships Tropical fish George Clooney

119. Things associated with plants Photosynthesis Foliage Stems Fertilizer Chlorophyll Pollinate Chia pets

121. Things associated with earthquakes and volcanoes Fault Richter Lava Mt. St. Helens Tsunami San Andreas Fault Dormant

122. Things associated with addition/subtraction Sum Total Minus Addend Whole number Equals Plus

123. Things associated with basketball Free throw Michael Jordan North Carolina Traveling Shaq Harlem Globetrotters Dribble

124. Things associated with the Internet Google Search Engine Wiki URL Home Page A I M Blog Link

125. Artists Van Gogh Michelangelo Picasso Monet Rembrandt Da Vinci Grandma Moses

126. Things associated with England Tea Princess Diana Big Ben Castles London BBC Henry VIII

127. Things associated with punctuation Comma Semi-colon Quotation marks Period Exclamation point Hyphen Colon

128. Authors/Poets John Steinbeck William Shakespeare Mark Twain Stephen King Emily Dickinson Ernest Hemingway Maya Angelou

129. Things associated with yesterday Guaranteed and viable curriculum Terms and Details Learning goals Feedback Grades Report Cards Skills and Processes

130. Things associated with the Internet Google Search engine Blog Home page Wiki Computer Instant Messaging

131. Acute Right Hypotenuse Obtuse Sides Pythagorean theorem Equilateral Things associated with triangles

132. Adolph Hitler Mahatma Gandhi Winston Churchill Pearl Harbor Richard Nixon Iwo Jima Orbit Inertia Gravity Circulatory System Respiratory System Nervous System Bicep Triceps Metatarsals

133. Orbit Inertia Gravity Circulatory System Respiratory System Nervous System Bicep Triceps Metatarsals

134. c

135. www.debrapickering.com/games