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Basic Curriculum Standards Training -
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April 8, 2009
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Welcome Basic Curriculum Standards Training
Participants
Week 9
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4:00-4:05 Welcome
4:05-4:30 Increasing English proficiency in science
4:30-5:10 From Schemes of Work to Yearly Plan
5:10-6:00 From Yearly Plan to Unit Plans
6:00 – 6:30 Prayer and Meal Break
6:30-7:45 Shared Expertise
7:45-7:50 Closure & Homework Reminders
7:50-8:00 Evaluations
Agenda - Week 9
Increase
Language Proficiency
In Science
A few strategies to use often…
Delivering the Content
Build Vocabulary Instruction: includes journals or homemade dictionaries for unknown and new words, portable word walls, and oral practice.
Increase Reading Opportunities: This may be done by guided reading, independent reading, or direct instruction.
Written Language: Teacher modeling Inquiry Lessons conducted in the lab that reinforce the content.
Display 15 - 20 key words from a text on a projector.
Students have one minute to write down as many words as they can.
Cover the words and give students another minute to write the words from memory.
Students check their words against the full list and then ask other members of the group for word meanings they don't know.
Students use dictionaries as well at this stage. Lastly, have a whole class discussion of words
that were unknown or not fully known.
Vocabulary Jumble
Word Walls
Teachers make portable word walls in folders or on foam or corrugated board that they carry to each science class.
Words can be color coded according to the science strand.
Before and After Vocabulary Grid
Word List What I think the words mean Revised definition
a producer
a consumer
a herbivore
a carnivore
an omnivore
ecology
adaptation
a food chain
a food web
a habitat
a decomposer
a population
a community
an ecosystem
an organism
SQ3R Reading Strategy
Survey: chapter titles, section headings, pictures, picture captions, charts, graphs, etc.
Question: turn section headings into questions
Read: to answer selected questions
Recite: try to answer questions
Review: review the material by rereading
Skimming is used to identify the main ideas of a text quickly.
Scanning is used to look up a word in a text or you are concentrating on finding a particular answer.
Skimming and Scanning
Read the text in Handout 1d and answer the following questions.
How was magnetism discovered? What is a domain? Describe the forces in magnets N-N and N-S. What are the materials used in fridge? What are the types of magnets? Define electromagnets and give examples on
their uses. Compare between permanent and
electromagnets
Magnets and Electromagnets
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Exploring the Schemes of Work
Cooperative Learning: Corners
1. Count off by 4.2. All 1s go to Corner number 1.3. All 2s go to Corner number 2.4. All 3s go to Corner number 3.5. All 4s go to Corner number 4.
6. Examine the section(s) of the SoW listed.7. Write the most important things to
remember in that section and why they are important.
Exploring the Schemes of Work
What did you discover in your section?
How can you use this information in planning?
Share you Findings
Step #1 – Map the Units across the Year
Choose the SoW for your grade level.
1. Use one set of the monthly planning calendar.
2. Locate the Unit organization in the SoW.3. Organize the Units for Semester 1 across
the months. (Watch the suggested hours)
Semester Map
Share the Semester Maps
Reflection:What was easy about this activity?What was difficult?How can the SoW make planning
easier?How will you use the Schemes of Work?
Expanding a Unit of Study
1. Return to the Group with whom you did the Unit Map.
2. Choose one of the Units on the Map.3. Look at the categories under each week.4. Using the Schemes of Work, fill in the
information which will be covered each week to develop the unit.
Hint: Keep Standards/Objectives/Key Questions in student-friendly language.
Be prepared to share what you sketched.
Prayer Breakand
Dinner
SharedExpertise
Reviewing the Day
What are the Schemes of Work?
How can they be used to make planning more efficient and
effective?
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Homework:
Bring a unit plan and highlight the strategies and activities you have learned and used in your classroom.
Evaluation
Questions?
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Closure