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I teach Spanish. At the first of each year we do country research. I have 7 table groups in my classroom. Each table group selects a country.

Presentations are any way they choose. I have had skits where there was a travel agent and 3 travelers. Google slide presentations. Giant post it notes hung around the room with the students speaking about them. Jeopardy. How they present is up to them. But all members of the group must participate in the presentation.

Objective:  Learn cultural traits, traditions, geography, human geography of a Latin American country.

Plan:  Using any resource available, each table will select a Latin American country and research it.  Include geography facts, population, those type of facts about each country.  Research traditions and how the people live and make a living.  Is it a rural or metropolitan type country?  Any important historical facts that shaped the country?  What do teenagers do?  How long do they go to school?  When can they drive, or do they?  Compare and contrast your findings to your culture. Find out those kinds of facts about the population of your country, and any other items that are of interest.

Presentation:  Use whatever platform you want.  Google slide presentation, skit, large post it notes.  This is entirely up to you.    Presentations will be done in class.

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Lesson plans used this school year for the week of September 11th.

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Final Check point - Ben Lewis - Brenham ISD

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Final Check point - Ben Lewis - Brenham ISD

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Objective: Intro to the course lesson... Learn the basics of world cultural traits.

Each student is assigned a culture region (East Asia, Scandinavia, Central America, etc.)

They are to build an acrostic on Google Slides with their culture region's name, and a cultural trait that starts with that letter on each slide. They are to present to the class.

For example... East Asia.

E - eats with chopsticks
A - Agedashi is deep fried tofu in Japan
S - Sichuan is a region in China known for its beautiful landscape and spicy food
T - Tokyo is a major economic center and the capital of Japan

...and so on. Each slide should be colorful and engaging.

Grade based on completion of the assignment how they carried themselves during the presentation.

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Final Checkpoint Assighment / Mary Kroll 

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Final Checkpoint Assighment / Mary Kroll 

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This is a great, engaging lesson I do in my class to set the stage for a discussion about the reasons that Islam spread so quickly and widely throughout the second half of the first millennium

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4th Grade Math

Adding & Subtracting Decimals(4.4A) and Calculating Profit (4.10B)

It’s a Blue Bell Kind of Day

Transformation:  Decorate the tables and room to look like an ice cream parlor.

Materials:  Blue Bell Hats, Aprons, Ice Cream, Scoops, Cones, Play Money, Calculation sheet, Menu Sheet

Objective:  We will be able to use our knowledge of adding and subtracting decimal numbers to calculate the profit of our ice cream shop sales.

Warm Up/Bell Ringer:  Students will complete a four problem warm up on adding and subtracting decimals

Introduce/Engage:  Review/check warm up and clear up any misconceptions.  Watch a brief YouTube video that explains profit, income, and expense.

Turn and Talk:  After the video have each table group talk/work together to write their own definitions on the table for each term.  Teacher will go around and monitor students as they work.

Lesson: Explain/teach how to find profit. Make sure to teach formula.  Allow time for discussion and practice.  Allow time for students to put the terms and formula in their math journal.

Stations/Group Work:  Each station has a different sales event an Ice Cream Parlor may have.  The students will dress up in their ice cream parlor gear and act out and solve the problem at each station.  They will self check their work using QR code.

Wrap Up:  Discuss what we learned today.

Formative Assessment:  GimKit Profit game created by teacher to assess learning.

Celebrate the Learning:  Everyone gets to scoop up an ice cream cone!

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Chelsea Riley - Final Checkpoint - Brenham/Burton ISD

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Chelsea Riley - Final Checkpoint - Brenham/Burton ISD

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3rd grade GT students will use the Engineering Design Process to built a structure for Harriett.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HNuLGTXHpuFeCnMUobf6NekcKixTYbY9Qhz-biwiTyg/edit?usp=sharing

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Kacie Dewberry - GT WIld Card Lesson Plan 

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Erin Vernon- Wild Card Lesson Plan GT credit

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I typically discuss rules & procedures for at least 3 days at the beginning of the year. I like to show the class different ways to do things correctly and incorrectly by modeling and having other students model. We practice multiple times before writing out our final anchor chart.

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GT Checkpoint #3, Barbara Broadus, AES_BISD

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Checkpoint #3: Kim Kwiatkowski - Brenham ISD

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Checkpoint #3: Kim Kwiatkowski - Brenham ISD

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This particular 1st grade lesson can be implemented during the first cycle of the new school year using various phonic skills.

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This lesson will be taught during the first weeks of school. It will help build community while fostering relationships and respect for our classroom, school and the world we live it. I chose to create this lesson because it would spark creativity, community and collaboration.

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This activity would be for a first grade beginning of the year lesson. Take the time to get to know students and them to get to know your rules/expectations. This will set the stage for your year.

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Checkpoint #3 - Kelly Wall - Brenham ISD

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Checkpoint #3 - Kelly Wall - Brenham ISD

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This lesson will be taught over a weeks time within the first few weeks of school in my Kindergarten class. We will be actively discussing rules and expectations along with kindness. This will also give the students a first-hand lesson on collaborating with a partner to create a 3-D piece of playground equipment.

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Mission: Bottle Flip
Could be adapted for any level science 6-12.  Review of nature of science and experimental design as well as measurement, accuracy, and basic data recording.
HAVE FUN!

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I use this activity on the first day of AP Statistics as a way to introduce students to the biggest idea in the course, which is inference. The activity involves watching a video, carrying out a simulation, making a dotplot and then discussing what kind of evidence the simulation provided. I love this activity because it involves a real life application, introduces key vocabulary, gets students out of their seats and engaged, and brings about great discussion of very deep statistical concepts on just the very first day of class!!

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Checkpoint #3_ Pam Zibilski - Google Docs

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I am the inclusion teacher. In an inclusion classroom, it is essential to provide differentiated instruction and support for students with diverse learning needs. It is imperative that you have the ability to adjust the lesson materials and activities as necessary to accommodate individual students' abilities and ensure their active participation.

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Checkpoint #3 - Kimberly Travers, Brenham ISD

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Checkpoint #3 - Kimberly Travers, Brenham ISD

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This lesson is for the 3rd or 4th week of the school year. Students will be review letters of the alphabet, responding to a story, and using some problem solving and engineering skills to complete a task. The use of the Novel Effect app will enhance the reading of a well known story.

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Checkpoint 3 Lesson Plan- Sharon Chapman             

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I enjoyed how this study challenged me to use my own brand of creativity to create engaging lessons. So many times I have downplayed my creativity, so this book really opened my eyes to see how I can use my passions to draw in students.

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Checkpoint 3 Lesson Plan- Sharon Chapman

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The objectives focus on the students demonstrating their knowledge of the content in a variety of ways, through speaking, writing and utilizing tools such as graphic organizers.
Y.M.

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This lesson plan is for the first or second week of school for kindergarten. It introduces general expectations such as in following directions, controlling one's movements with the body and respecting each other's personal space!

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I cannot wait to have this lesson with my G/T students next year.  We always participate in our local Veterans Day program by providing a wax museum.  This Wild Card lesson will insure that the students have a great experience while learning about veterans before their wax museum presentation.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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This lesson plan is to start any group off with a way to get to know one another and establish a classroom culture that encourages inclusiveness, respect, strategic thinking, creativity, and fun! I typically have some type of activity like this for the first day of school so that kids learn from day one the classroom expectations.

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I gave you access through Google. Hopefully it worked better this time! I used the first genre we cover each year, as it has been something that I lack "follow through" with. Thank you for a great book study. I have learned so much! I believe this was finally what will get me out of my comfort zone and into 110% student engagement!

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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I loved building this lesson on ethos, pathos, and logos. I was able to take semi-current film to relate to my theater students and movie buffs. I had so many students ask what the movies name were over and over and where were they streaming. They did not complain once about analyzing the speeches and readily found information to volunteer out in class. This week made the foundation of our argument research essays fun and enabled students to look forward to arguing a topic instead of looking at it like dry toast. I had more students conference one on one on their own accord to discuss their topics. I am happy that my team supported my going out on a limb and loved they all had similar feedback!

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3rd 9 Weeks, Week 1 Eng II Advanced MWHS Lesson Plan 

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I enjoyed creating this lesson. I will be using it at the beginning of the year for my Gifted and Talented fourth graders. The Wildcard has truly inspired me to add new engaging and creative activities in my lesson plans.

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Objective: Students will create a map that includes symbolic examples of at least 10 things about themselves.
Reflections: This activity will allow me to get to know my students' interest and artistic abilities. This will be our first mini-classroom transformation that relates to our district-wide theme. It will not only hit on text features, but review and reinforce  map skills from their geography class.

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Sorry for the late up load.

Check point 3:

Element Hero

TEKS: 6.6 (A) compare metals, nonmetallic, and medallions using physical properties such as luster, conductivity, or malleability.

Objective: Students will learn and understand the differences in the properties of metals, nonmetals, and metalloids

Materials: notebook paper, color pencils, a superhero template, and my letter

Lessons: I will first read the letter from "DC Comics" about a contest we're the students Must create a superhero based on an element of their choosing. The superhero must exhibit the properties of their element.

The Students will draw their character, describe the properties, and present it to the class.

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TEKS: 1.4A, 1.4B, 1.4C

Objective: We will demonstrate the strategies used by good readers using thought jots and turn and talks.

Essential ?s:
-Why is it important for the reader to ask questions before, during and after reading?
-What predictions can you make? Could you confirm your preditcion?

Materials:
"Enemy Pie" book
Sticky notes
Anchor Chart (split "Prediction confirmed" and "The author surprised me")

Warm-up:
Show a few pictures with situations and ask students to make predictions of what they think is about the happen. Have them ask questions to build more background knowledge about the pictures to help them predict. This will demonstrate how we use clues and background knowledge to help us predict, as well as, ask questions. Good readers use these strategies to better understand what they are reading (comprehension.)

Instruction:
-Read aloud "Enemy Pie"
-Stop and have students turn and talk about  questions they have and share some aloud throughout read aloud.
-Stop at the part where dad is making the pie and the boy is outside and smells something good coming from their kitchen. -Have students write their predictions about what they think will happen and how dad's "enemy pie" is going to solve the problem on their sticky note (stop and jot.)
-After reading have students talk and talk about if their prediction was confirmed or if the author surprised them and it wasn't what they had predicted.
-Students will stick their thought jot on the correct side of the anchor chart (Prediction confirmed or The author surprised me)

Independent Practice:
Students will apply these strategies during independent reading to help build their comprehension and understanding for their reading

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Lesson Plan for GT Wild Card Book Study - Google Docs

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The first major lesson in the library is digital footprint. Putting a comic book character to have students investigates and uncover the whereabouts of the character.

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Love hands-on. Anything that gets students up, moving, and manipulating. They love it!

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This book gave me the motivation to (finally) start having a year-long theme of English Scouts. Every 6 weeks, we will go on different themed adventures and the students will have the chance to earn various badges (I included the (draft) of the badges students can earn at the end of my attached lesson plan). I am starting small with this idea, and I'm excited to see how I can grow it.

The attached lesson plan is still in the draft stage; it will change as I create the materials to go with it. It is meant for our 3rd day of school, after we've created the social contract, and starts us off on our safari theme for the first 6 weeks.

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Objective: We will make connections between the different fictional characters to different experiences in our lives.
Reflections: This allows me to get to know the students' personalities and how they see themselves. Some connect with the green crayon because they are always happy or they try to help their friends, some feel unseen like the white crayon, and some feel overwhelmed with chores like the red crayon.

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As an Academic Coordinator on my campus, my goal will be to embed in time for our teams to discuss and share the craft of their teaching. Currently, our PLC process operates on a 3-week cycle (see PDF) and week 3 focuses on modeling and sharing activities that will increase engagement and meet student needs based on data. However, sometimes too much time is spent in week 1 and 2 work that week 3 is doesn't get the attention or time that it needs. I will work closely with the facilitators of each team to provide some of the engagement strategies from Wild Card to pair during our week 3 work. Allowing teachers time to model and share their creativity will help our campus with student engagement and the needed rigor. I am excited to create a menu board of engagement strategies from the toolbox mentioned in the last chapter to help facilitate lesson planning in week 3 of our PLC process.

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Part III - Teacher Toolbox Lesson Gunter

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I teach Algebra 2. This is an idea for the first day of school to build intentional community and establish norms in the classroom.

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This is a lesson plan that I will use the first week of school to review lab safety with my students. Since I am transforming my classroom into a true crime/CSI scene, we will use detective skills to do this.

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Pablo Sada

Lesson Plan:

4th Grade LA

Objective:

Morning meetings first thing in the morning after announcements  to get to know each other and what do they expect from me, what do they want to learn and what are their favorite hobbies, sports or tv shows so with this activity I will know how I could motivate them during the year.

Materials:

Writing Journal, pencils, crayons, Chromebooks

Whole group:

Guiding Questions:

= How do you think reading will help you in your life?

= What would it be like your afternoon without electronics?

= What is your favorite sport and why?

= Do you think having a hobby is important?

= How do you want me to help you improve?

= In what areas do I have to help you more

Lesson:

1.I will model what I like and what I think about things in life.

Examples:  Math, reading, writing, etc. so  the students know how to answer this questions.

2. Students will create their own writing or if they are more advanced they can create a Google Slide and share it with me and students to know more about everyone.

3. The students will present their google slide in front of the class.

With this simple and short lesson will help me to get to know my students better and to break the ice so that they get to know each other better, it also helps me to know what they like so I can motivate them during the year

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Julie Sadler - Mini Bowling Alley Transformation

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Julie Sadler - Mini Bowling Alley Transformation

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I am a Reading Interventionist so I created this plan for my 1st Grade group- but it can be used with all the grade levels I service- just using different skill sets for each grade level!

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This lesson helps with identifying math tools. I'm a hands on learner. I believe this would help with students and introduce them to the tools we will be using.

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This lesson is using music to help the students remember the characteristics of a good listener.

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New Art and Science of Teaching, Element 27 is how I might plan for and track many of the seven step in Wild Card.

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K. Burnett-Story elements lesson-assignment #3

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This lesson plan during language arts will give student a chance to get to know each other the first week and we will be doing different activities for differentiation.

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This is something I took from the book that I plan to try with my AP Stats class to lead discussions over the textbook readings that we do.

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I enjoy building teamwork and collaboration at the beginning of the year. I have a new position with many grades. This activity I can do with mixed ages if needed. I am excited to see the excitement of my GT students with this fun activity. I am going to have them create flipgrid, iMovie or other recording device where they are the directors.

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This is a lesson I plan on using to get the students interested in Physics and what it encompasses. I think it is a creative way to provide introductory information to the class.

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I love the beginning of the school year. I love learning about my students. This is a new activity for me, but I am excited about the possibilities!

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BBJH 8th grade Science TEAM!
Completed lesson plan with Mandy Beuershausen #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

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Collaborated with my teammate Taylor Parsons on this activity.