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I've used a KWL chart with seventh graders at the beginning of a medieval unit. Before reading an informational text about the bubonic plague, students brainstormed what they already knew about Black Death (mostly from social studies class) and what they wanted to learn. After reading the article, students added what they learned from the text.

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I have used CERs in my classroom specifically for our SMART Goal for PLCs. I use it when I want students to respond to different concepts and I want them to be able to explain their thinking.

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Enron project/paper. Students prepared a timeline of the catastrophic events leading up to the Enron scandal.

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I use the Frayer model with students when we talk about new or key vocabulary for a unit. I like the consistency of the format. I like that the model has a place for examples and non-examples of what the word means.

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I started using the Frayer Model in my class this year. We use it to learn and review terms. It's worked well with expanding student knowledge beyond just knowing the terms.

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Main Idea Writing Organizer
Main Idea - 3 supporting pieces of evidence
Use for students to create summaries of articles

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Using The Engineering Design process to Identify a problem, Come up with a solution, Create it, test it, and improve it to form the ideal solution.

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Comparing New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

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I use this for weekly vocab. I still struggle to find the line between taking a lot of time letting students come up with entries for all squares and helping students generate ideas for efficiency's sake

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I use with students to help them brainstorm before writing. It is helping students expand and add more details to their writing

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We used it to compare plant cells and animal cells. It worked well to help them compare the similarities and differences between the two types of cells, but the space for the commonalities is always a struggle for them to make and write in. Now we use an "I" chart---same concept but it looks like a capital letter I (think "T chart), the left and right sides each have one category, and at the bottom you write what they have in common.

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Using a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast different musical works with MS students works well for a visual explanation of our thoughts.