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CHAPTER NINE: IDENTIFYING SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Vonnie & Rachel
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Recommendations for Classroom Practice Teach comparing and classifying using similarities and differences Give students a model of the steps. Use familiar context. Use a graphic organizer as a visual tool. Guide students through this process. Gradually give less structure and less guidance.
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Word Processing Applications Use Microsoft Word Drawing toolbar to draw diagrams, charts, tables, or other templates to compare and classify items or illustrate a metaphor. Venn Diagram
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Spreadsheet Software Facilitates the comparison of data, making it an ideal tool to use with students to help them identify similarities and differences. Students collect data, input into spreadsheet, apply any necessary formulas, and convert to multiple visual representations of their data.
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Organizing and Brainstorming Software Kidspiration (grades preK-5) and Inspiration (for intermediate and older) Student-generated graphic organizers that helps students visually portray connections and experience new and deeper insights about the content.
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Data Collection Tools Very useful for identifying similarities and differences due to the fact that it allows students to quickly create many graphical representations for comparison.
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CHAPTER 10: HOMEWORK AND PRACTICE Vonnie & Rachel
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Recommendations for Classroom Practice Homework Establish and communicate a homework policy. Design homework assignments that clearly articulate purpose and outcome. Vary approaches to providing feedback. Practice Ask students to chart their speed and accuracy Design practice assignments that focus on specific elements of a complex skill or process Plan time for students to increase their conceptual understanding of skills or processes.
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Word Processing Applications Microsoft Word Students are able to do research on a specific topic using the Microsoft Research tools. Microsoft 2003: Tools>Research Microsoft 2007: Review Tab> Research Eliminates the need to go back and forth between a browsing program/search engine window and the Word Processing software. Other Resources Available: Thesaurus Dictionary E-Library
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Spreadsheet Software Using spreadsheets for homework and practice is typically about students using data to master concepts and skills. Students can practice by calculating, manipulating, and displaying data to gain deeper understanding. Example: A P.E. teacher and football coach had students use spreadsheet software to enter their workout data. Once data was collected, the students used their data to create a graph.
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Multimedia Software Using and creating multimedia requires a high degree of technology accessibility. Multimedia homework is an opportunity to deepen understanding and gain proficiency. Practicing with multimedia allows students to shape the experience to their individual learning style and increase their level of understanding to mastery.
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Educational Software EDDIE Awards BESSIE Awards Technology & Learning’s Awards of Excellence eSchoolNews Readers’ Choice Awards CodIE Awards Discovery Education’s The Parent Channel (see page 193 for websites!) In addition to learning from multimedia, students can learn with multimedia by creating their own projects. PowerPoint games Jeopardy Battleship List of ResourcesCreate Projects
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Web Resources Allow students to practice concepts and skills repeatedly from their homes, during a study period, or even as an anchor activity in a differentiated classroom. Online educational games have an inherent appeal and generate immediate feedback that allows a student, parent, and teacher to monitor progress toward mastery.
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Web Resources BBC Skillswise National Library of Virtual Manipulatives ExploreLearning BrainPop Iknowthat.com Stellarium (see page 196-198 for websites!) Wizards & Pigs Flashcard Exchange Mousercise Lever Tutorial Kitchen Chemistry Hurricane Strike! Instant Project
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Communication Software Microsoft Word ‘Track Changes’ and ‘Insert Comments’ features to give feedback on student writing. Writeboard.com allows multiple users to edit a document via the Web (similar to a wiki) Backpack Checklist (www.backpackit.com) allows students to make individual or shared pages to organize notes, Web sites, to-do lists, etc.www.backpackit.com Campfire (www.campfirenow.com) is an online group chat tool which allows students to collaborate between classrooms, schools, or even countries.www.campfirenow.com
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Web Resources Web resources used for text editing. Google Docs (http://docs.google.com)http://docs.google.com YourDraft (www.yourdraft.com)www.yourdraft.com Sometimes referred to as WYSIWYG (wizee wig) which stands for “what you see is what you get” JotSpot (www.jot.com)www.jot.com
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THE END Vonnie & Rachel
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