Outrageously, Entertaining, Engaging and Powerful Lesson by Mrs. Quinn

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Use art as a way to engage all students with standards. It is an equalizer which all students can access.

Tableau

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PE- Heath

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Making activities a competition for the students to have an end goal to reach

Engagement Strategies

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Games
Relate the examples and lessons back to them.
Give the students choices.

Creative activities

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As we talk about Egypt and mummification we mummify a hotdog to show the process and thought that went into this process

6th Grade Math

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Color-coding different terms in expressions using different-colored highlighters and/or markers.

Combining Like Terms

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We show a short video clip from about ordering hamburgers and fries. It gets the kids hooked into making things easier by combining like terms.

Test taking skills

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Instead of just answering the question...assign each student in a group of 4 one of the answer choices. They have to come up with either why the answer is correct, OR why their answer is wrong

Callaway - coordinate grid simon says

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X,Y, origin simon says. Hands left/right for X axis, hands pointed up/down for Y axis, and dot at the center of your chest for the origin.

AVID

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We use the Blanket Name Game toward the end of the first quarter to see how well the students are getting to know each other. They love it!

Project based learning to model the scientific process - build a paper plane and test these different models to see how this affects its flight.

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Acting

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Give students the opportunity to act difficult-to-understand or important passages out.

Digital Palette

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For our 6th grade "Outer-Space-Scape" project, we like to review professional reference images, sci-fi movie clips, and discuss the various components and scientific properties of a universe (...explaining gravitational pulls and attempting to recreate space anomalies in our own artwork).

Image by 6th grade student, J. Odom.

8th Grade

hnevy — 2024-10-16 12:48:24 UTC

Using Flippity and wheel of names to bring game like atmosphere

Word problems that relate to their interests

Social Studies 8

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Mock Elections during the Constitutional Convention. Each group must agree and cast their vote.

Project based learning

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Have students solve a real world problem (like budgeting) to learn about percents

Band and Orchestra

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Relating to the music we are playing! What's the history? Is there an image? Can we use an image to help enhance the meaning behind a piece of music? For example, if a piece is about a storm, what should our "storm" sound like?

Hedges-ELA

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Thought tracking tableau

Dillner-Dance

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Student Choreography Unit. Students work in teams to create a dance combination. They get to choose the movement, music and costume. We invite teachers to class to view their performances.

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Make it Modern

Take social studies concepts and apply them to modern day. Example- Redraw the Mona Lisa using Renaissance techniques but in a 2024 setting.

science 7

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We use stations to get students up and moving!

7th grade Health

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Add movement to the lesson to allow students to collaborate and discuss the content for the day - such as a 4 corners activity to discuss the areas of health and wellness

The Giver novel

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Have students receive job assignments as they walk into the classroom similarly to how careers are given to the characters in the book and have students explain how they fell about their assignments since they have no choice just like the characters have no choice in the book.

Hands on models - 6th

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Students are creating hands on models weekly in science to demonstrate different concepts - some are edible and they love it!

Dance

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Ballet choreography unit- Collaborate, create, and write a short story/ballet. Create movement based on the story with a partner. Perform in front of class, peer feedback.

Spanish

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* Games where students can compete against each other.

*Give students choices

Spanish (Mrs. V / Andujar / Fitch)

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Real life experiences.

Incorporate more visual in our class.

Student to student collaboration.

Games.

Manipulatives.

Movement activities: 4 corners, stations, competitions, etc.

Hot Dog Mummification- 6th grade SS

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We try to incorporate projects at least twice a marking period reinforce the learning and increase engagement. In two weeks we will be mummifying hotdogs after the kids learn about the afterlife and the mummification process.

A Link to the Past

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Try to link modern day events and issues to the past and get students talking about how it impacts them personally. E.g. Bubonic Plague vs COVID-19, How are they similar? Different? What can we learn from the plague and COVID for the future? (Opportunistic Hook) then pair it with a Board Message Hook for the Warm Up or Motivator at the beginning of the lesson to get them talking even before the bell! (Click bait them into engagement)

Reading intervention

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Games where students can compete but they have to back up their thinking.

6th grade ELA

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Pick a side with internal and external conflict scenarios.

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When we decode word problems, students act out the operation using their arms or whole body. For division we use jazz hands or they can be creative and show it in their own unique way.

Science 6

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Infusing creative arts into our lessons.

Cheers

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We make up cheers with motions to remember some of the rules students need to remember in math.

Here is one:

Absolute Value

Distance from Zero

Absolute Value

Never Negative

Fiddle Sticks Unit

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Students need to tell me 2 game rules after each game without repeating a rule.

Play can be competitive or skill based games.

AVID

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Philosophical Chairs and Socratic Seminars!! Kids love to debate!

Music ‘puzzle’

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Sight reading has to happen each class period. This time, they have to put the music in order first and then sight read it.

Pictured are three ways to scaffold this assignment for your learners.

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