Lesson Ideas: Content Areas

Graphic organizers are ways to organize information in a way that makes it more visible, more accessible, and easier to understand.

There are as many ways to structure flexible grouping as there are teachers and classrooms.

Constitution, Preamble, and US Government Activities

Effective assessment is specific, timely, and based on clear expectations.

The technology we now have available opens up all sorts of opportunities for creating and presenting “How-To’s” particularly video.

Five questions to give you good place to start when deciding what will work best for your students.

Ideas for allowing some time for some student reflection and/or summarization of the main ideas from the lesson

Using historical fiction to support content instruction while providing choices for students.

Individual, pairs, and small group reponses

Our class record was 95 paperclips. Think your students could beat that?

Or, Why People Were Willing to Risk Their Lives to Get Spices

Video clips can capture students’ attention, explain a point, and show students things and place and people they might not otherwise get to see.

One of my favorite – and, I think, one of the easiest – ways to differentiate is to give students options for how the demonstrate their learning.

Cubing is a versatile, easy-to-use instructional strategy that adds a bit of randomness and chance to your lessons.