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Modeling with Manipulatives (Active Learning in the Middle Grades Classroom by Edward)

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Modeling with Manipulatives (Active Learning in the Middle Grades Classroom by Edward)

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-Description: This strategy uses physical models or manipulatives to help students visualize and understand complex scientific structures.

-Application: Have students use clay, beads, or other materials to build a model of a cell labeling organelles and explaining their functions. For body systems students can create models of a joint or neuron to see how different components work together

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Role-Playing as "Cells in Action" (Everyone’s Invited! Interactive Strategies That Engage Young Adolescents by Spencer)

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Role-Playing as "Cells in Action" (Everyone’s Invited! Interactive Strategies That Engage Young Adolescents by Spencer)

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-Description: Students act out different parts of a system or process, helping them embody and understand scientific concepts.

-Application: Assign each student a role as a cell organelle or body part. They then “act out” how each part functions, showing how cells or body systems work together. This strategy is especially effective for reinforcing how the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems are interconnected.

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Interactive Diagrams with Labels (Minds and Motion: Active Learning for the Creative Classroom by Stockton)

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Interactive Diagrams with Labels (Minds and Motion: Active Learning for the Creative Classroom by Stockton)

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Description: This involves labeling and annotating large diagrams with interactive elements so students can add details, definitions, and relationships between parts.

Application: For cells use a large diagram of a plant or animal cell and allow students to add labels and definitions. For body systems, provide diagrams of the nervous, skeletal, or muscular systems, and let students add labels highlight connections, or draw pathways to show how signals travel or muscles interact with bones.

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Think-Pair-Share with Visual Aids (The Nuts & Bolts of Active Learning by Campbell)

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Think-Pair-Share with Visual Aids (The Nuts & Bolts of Active Learning by Campbell)

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-Description: Students think individually about a question, discuss it with a partner, and then share their ideas with the class, supported by visuals like diagrams or models.

Application: When discussing how the skeletal and muscular systems work together, ask students to think about specific movements (lifting an arm). Then they pair up to discuss which muscles and bones are involved, and finally they share with the class using a skeletal model to illustrate.

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Description: In this activity, each student “becomes” an organelle, researching its functions and importance in the cell. During the "speed dating" rounds, students rotate and introduce their organelle to others, explaining its role.

Application: This activity can be used to help students remember the functions of each organelle and see how they work within the cell. For example, a student representing the mitochondria can explain energy production. This interactive approach reinforces their understanding of their roles.

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Description: Gizmos are interactive simulations that allow students to explore cell structures and functions virtually. Students can zoom into different organelles and see the cell interactions in real time.

Application: the Cell Gizmo simulation to reinforce students’ understanding of cell organelles and how cells work. After discussing the structure of plant and animal cells, students can use the simulation to virtually “see” these organelles and their functions.

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ExploreLearning : Get hands-on, minds-on in math and science

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ExploreLearning Gizmos - Math & Science Simulations for Students

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Hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials, supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science.

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Description: In this activity, the teacher will ask students to reflect and determine if there is a part of the lesson or concept that is unclear or confusing to them. This is called the muddiest point.

Application: The teacher will give them students post-it notes.  They will write any part of the activity that is unclear or confusing.  Students will turn the post-it notes into the teacher or on a class artifact.  This will allow students to reflect on their learning.  It also provides teachers with feedback on how to prepare reteaching or future lessons.

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Description:  A learning continuum is used as a tool for teachers to gauge where the students are at in the learning process of a specific skill.

Application:  On the board, the teacher will draw a horizontal line with arrows on the board.  Above the left arrow, the teacher will write I’m lost, in the middle of the line the teacher will write I’m starting to understand, and above the right arrow the teacher will write I can teach the class about this.  Students will write their name on a post it note.  They will place their post-it note on the learning continuum.  Based upon where students place their post-it note, the teacher can formally assess where students are at in the learning process of said skill.

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Description: Students can take online exploration of museums, ecosystems, or more.

Application: Students can take a virtual field trip.  Virtual field trips are great tools for students to “travel” to places they do not have the opportunity to go to.   For example, they can tour a virtual coral reef to study biodiversity.

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Description: Students use notebooks to compile and process information creatively with sketches, charts, and reflections.

Application: For interactive notebooks, students can create foldables for various sciences concepts like the skeletal and muscular systems, parts of cell, ecosystems, and more.

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Description: For Science Stations, students can complete rotational learning stations on different science topics at each station.

Application: In science classrooms, teachers can implement and students can use science stations to explore characteristics of living things with hands-on tasks.

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Description: For this activity, students search for specific items, questions, or answers related to a topic.

Application: In the classroom, students can use their ipads or chromebooks to scan QR codes to complete scavenger hunts on science topics like the human body systems, plant and animal cells, ecosystems, and more.

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Description: In science classrooms, science-based games are designed to reinforce learning on specific science concepts. .

Application: Some example games used in my classroom are Quizizz or Kahoot for a review of specific science concepts like digestive systems, cells, ecosystems, and more.

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Description: Exit tickets are quick reflections or answers to specific questions at the end of class to informally assess how students and a class as a whole are in understanding a specific concept.

Application: The teacher will ask students to write one thing they learned about science concepts like photosynthesis, parts of cells, ecosystems, and more.

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Description: Peer teaching is an effective tool used in middle school classrooms.  Students can explain scientific concepts to one another.

Application: For this activity, pairs of students will teach each other various science concepts like the stages of mitosis, human systems, cells, and more.

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Description: Project-based learning are long-term projects that explore real-world questions.

Application: An example of a project-based learning project in a middle school science classroom is designing an ecosystem in a bottle and monitoring it over weeks.

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Description: Reciprocal questioning is a learning strategy in which students create and answer their own questions.

Application: At the end of a lesson, students can create questions to quiz other students in the classroom.  For example: After learning about cells, have students pose review questions.

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Description: Collaborative posters are typically completed in groups.  Students will create large posters synthesizing information learned in the classroom.

Application: Students can create posters illustrating specific concepts learned in science class.  For example: Showing the journey of food through the digestive system.

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Description: Debates are an effective learning strategy in which students argue opposing viewpoints.

Application: An example of a debate in a middle school science classroom would be the ethical implications of genetic engineering.

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Description: Anchor charts are good visual aids to use in a classroom.  Students can collaboratively create charts summarizing key science concepts.

Application: An example of an anchor chart in a middle school science classroom, students create an anchor chart of the levels of biological organization.

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Description: Escape rooms are fun interactive challenges.  When students participate in an escape room, they have to solve puzzles to "escape" the room.

Application: During a science escape room, students can use clues about organelle functions to unlock boxes or progress through challenges.

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Description: Science comic strips are great learning strategies for students to illustrate scientific processes in a comic format.

Application: For an example of a comic strip completed in a science classroom, students can draw a comic about the journey of a red blood cell through the circulatory system.

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Description: For this activity, students label and explain diagrams in detail.

Application: In a middle school science classroom, students can label and annotate diagrams of specific science concepts.  For example: plant and animal cells.

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Description: Create art to represent biological concepts.

Application: Sculpt DNA molecules using clay or other materials.

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Description: Students write stories based on science topics.

Application: Write a story from the perspective of a single-celled organism.

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Description: Students build small ecosystems and observe changes over time.

Application: Create a terrarium and track the water cycle, plant growth, and decomposition.

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Description: Small groups discuss a topic while others observe, then switch roles.

Application: Discuss the impact of invasive species on ecosystems.

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Description: Provide clues about an organism, and students use evidence to identify it.

Application: Describe traits like habitat, cell type, and reproduction methods for students to guess a protist or bacteria.

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Description: Break topics into progressive challenges or levels.

Application: Study photosynthesis by first identifying inputs/outputs, then modeling chemical processes, and finally writing an explanation.

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Description: Use music to help students memorize and understand concepts.

Application: Create a song about cell organelles or the circulatory system to reinforce learning.