Appropriate Learning

Activities in the Different Phases of the

Lesson

Introductory Activities

• KWL Chart

• Video clip from a news story that relates to content

• Editorial from a current newspaper related to a lesson

• Posing a scientific problem and require students to formulate a hypothesis or predict what’s going to happen next .

• Cartoon or comic strip related to the topic • Games

• Simulation

• Puzzle, brain teaser

• Mysterious scenario

• Song followed by its analysis

• Picture without a caption• Quotable quote

• Anecdote

• Compelling stories from history, literature related to course content

• Current events to introduce curricular topic.

• Diagnostic test

• Skit, role playing• Voting

• Rank ordering

low high

1 2 3 4 5Honesty

• Values continuum

Where do you stand?

• Devil’s advocate • Conflict story

• Brainstorming • Interactive computer games

• Question and answer • Anticipation guide

______1. Parents are always stronger than children.

Reason:______2. It is possible for children to feel suicidal.

Reason:______3. No wars have been fought in Europe since World War II.

Reason:

Developmental

Activities

• Interview • Library research

• Internet research • Reading

• Lecture • Inviting resource speakers

• Field trip • Experiment

• Panel discussion• Hands-on learning

• Case study

• Using graphic organizers

• Jingles, rap, song

• Verses

• Acrostic

H - Honest E -ExcitedR -RespectfulO -OrganizeE -EmpatheticS

• Power point presentation

• Solving real-world problems

• Performances and demonstrations of skill mastery

• Authentic projects

• Portfolios of students’ best work and work in progress• Letters to the editor

• Power point presentation • brochures

• Writing and performing a song, rap, or musical

• News report for a local news program

• Television talk shows • Mock debates and mock trials

• Mock job interviews• Personal narratives

• Cartoons, comic strips• Organizing a symposium

Concluding

Activity

• Finish and review the KWL Chart

• “passport to leave”

• Journal writing at the end of the period

• 3/2/1 countdown • Using analogies

• Completing unfinished sentences

From this lesson, I learned that __________.

• Synthesize or summarize the lesson

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