1. TILE Community Potluck Theme: Customizing Content June 19, 2003

2. Target Learner Audience Grade or Post Secondary Level: Grade 8 Geographic Location: Alberta, northern, remote rural

3. Customization of Learning Activity The following are our group’s three examples of content adapted to a range of learning activity frameworks.

4. Content Area 1:Grade 8 cross-curricular Learning Activity Template 1: Inquiry Resource: Atlas of mountainous regions. Problem: Where is the best place to build and operate a Canadian, all-season recreation resort in a mountainous region? Collaborative criteria development. Rubric develop over time. -Panel of experts (business community) participates in evaluation.

5. Content Area 1: Cross-curricular Learning Activity Template 2: Atlas game -Latitude and longitude -Elevation -Locate regions -Precipitation -Distances between communities -Largest/smallest communities -Create a set of questions based on the Atlas (individual activity) -Questions shared with team. -Questions then used to stump other team for points. -Jeopardy approach -Hot Potato -Possible Curriculum: math, IT, geography…

6. Content Area 1: Learning Activity Template 3:

7. Customization of Content The following are our group’s three examples of learning activity frameworks adapted using new content.

8. Content Area 2: Parts of Speech Learning Activity Template 1: Roleplay/sim -Original idea: role play (pick a part of speech from a box, arrange a sentence, and explain your role). Wear a card, be the part of speech (on back on card, safe prepared responses) -Concern: may not work with target audience. -Different variations of activities – different level of complexity -Resource (def’n of parts of speech) handed out -Target audience is ESL – could be a great deal of anxiety -Game format, element of nonsense (important for audience to feel safe)

9. Content Area 2: Learning Activity Template 2: Inquiry Problem: ??? -Give each part of speech a value (i.e. verbs = $5, nouns = $1) -Activity can involve a budget (i.e. advertising manager has a word budget of $200 to sell Nike shoes, create the most effective advertising slogan/paragraph.) -Objective: Student must tally up the total cost of their paragraph. -Resource is given so they can identify the parts and values of the words they have used.

10. Content Area 2: Learning Activity Template 3:

11. Customization of Content The following are our group’s three examples of learning activities adapted for the following context: (Choose 1): Individual learning context Large class size context

12. Customization for Context: Learning Activity Template 1:

13. Customization for Context: Learning Activity Template 2:

14. Customization for Context: Learning Activity Template 2:

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