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	Work out the Brain! Work All the Brains Differentiating by Product Bringing Learning Alive by Varying the Complexity of the Product that Students Create

Bring Learning Alive with Visual Representations

Graphs from Spreadsheets

Concept Maps

Digital Pictures to Explain

Original Graphics

Animations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bloom's Taxonomy - What do you want to students to be able to do?

Knowledge: define; describe; identify; label; list; name; record; state.

Comprehension: classify; describe; discuss; estimate; explain; generalize; gives examples; make sense out of; paraphrase; restate (in own words); summarize.

Application: articulate; assess; chart; collect; compute; construct; determine; develop; discover; inform; instruct; predict; prepare; produce; relate; show; solve; teach; use; utilize.

Analysis: break down; diagram; discriminate; distinguish; illustrate; infer; outline; point out; prioritize; recognize; separate; subdivide.

Synthesis: adapt; categorize; combine; communicate; compare; compile; compose; create; design; model; modify; plan; reconstruct; reinforce; reorganize; revise; validate.

Evaluation: appraise; compare & contrast; conclude; criticize; critique; decide; defend; interpret; judge; justify; reframe; support.

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Graphs from Spreadsheets

Are students gathering data in their unit of study? By creating a simple spreadsheet in Excel or other word processing suite, you can generate a graph. Also try Internet resources such as Create-A-Graph or more advanced Graph Creator from Illuminations.

Casualties of World War ll Countries with more than 100,000 deaths

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Digital Images and Student Writing

Performing an experiment, going on a field trip, or working on a project? Have students take photos or digital pictures to use when explaining, labeling, summarizing, sharing or comparing. Actual images help reinforce the experience and stimulate the visual memory.

Here is a wiki of various online resources and examples that can be used to promote student writing when combined with digital images. Here is a favourite example of procedural writing created in Bubbleshare following outdoor canoeing lessons in Grade 6.

Below is an example of using digital images in a word processor document. This is especially beneficial when students need to identify parts, steps or other procedures and explanations.

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Webbing and Concept Maps

Visual learning techniques help students to clarify thinking, reinforce understanding and build on and assess prior knowledge. Create a concept map. The following examples are created with Inspiration Software.

Idea Map Idea maps help students develop their thoughts visually when ~ brainstorming ~ prewriting ~ planning ~ problem solving in math or other areas	Concept Map A concept map can help students illustrate the relationships between ideas.
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Creating Original Graphics

Create original graphics to tell a story or illustrate a concept in math, science or art. Some students may be able to draw their ideas better than write about them.

This painting shows what older students can do in creating original graphic art. Gr. 9 samples - World War II Lost and Found

Using a draw program allows students to draw what they know. This Gr. 2 student chose to illustrate a picture about a story the class had read using AppleWorks Paint.

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Animations

Create animations to demonstrate understanding of a concept. iDraw is an animation application for Mac. Pencil is a shareware application for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Water Cycle This animation was created by two students in Grade 4. One student is integrated into the classroom from a special education classroom and the other student has extreme attention difficulties. They both concentrated for an hour in creating this and both students could explain the water cycle using this animation.

The Eruption of a Volcano Create by Gr. 6 students

Glaciers	Geysers

 

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