HPL Strategies Board by Olusola Oyinsan (Arroyo Valley HS)

Hands-on activities that are inquiry based and collaborative.

2024-06-04 17:28:24 UTC

mayakim1 — 2024-06-04 17:28:24 UTC

AVID One-Pagers

Table 10

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Building Thinking Classroom

Gamified learning

2024-06-04 17:28:33 UTC

Nearpod's Time to Climb; Blookit; Kahoot!

Flexible seating chart (in music, it can be letting musicians sit in different parts of the room for hearing/watching challenges)

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Getting students moving and talking

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mayakim1 — 2024-06-04 17:28:45 UTC

Kagan Structures

AVID

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WICOR Partners

Source Analysis Stations

kelseysmith9 — 2024-06-04 17:28:48 UTC

Math

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Number Talks

mischatacchia — 2024-06-04 17:29:02 UTC

Rally Coach

kelseysmith9 — 2024-06-04 17:29:06 UTC

Four Corners, Floor is Lava, SEL games

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Table 10

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Cooperative learning activities

Fact or Fiction

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Students have to come up with 2 facts about the content (i.e. Photosynthesis) and one fiction and partners have to figure out which is which.

Reciprocal Teaching

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Students each have a job within the small group as they analyze a passage.

Read Alouds

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Heads Up Game with Index Cards

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Have students play the heads up game as a way to review key vocabulary from the course. You can either use quizlet if you want to play digital or you can play it with index cards.

jessica_ortiz1 — 2024-06-04 17:29:52 UTC

Therapy Tuesdays

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Rally Coach

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Students pair up and work on one paper. They take turns working out a problem and coaching their partner. It increases engagement participation and accountability

Math

2024-06-04 17:30:11 UTC

Beat the teacher… teacher rolls a dice. Students will draw a tic-tac-toe. Students write those numbers in different boxes and add them. Whoever writes the smallest/biggest number wins.

I do, We do, You do

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#1: Gradually Release of Responsibility

Egg Russian Roulette activity

2024-06-04 17:30:23 UTC

Students learn simple probability through determining if they grab one of the raw eggs (4 out of 12 eggs are raw, the rest are hardboiled.) students smash eggs on their head to see if it's raw. This is from Jimmy Fallon's game he plays on his show.

Brain Breaks

2024-06-04 17:30:34 UTC

Take 1-2 minutes from lesson to give students a chance to participate in small tasks that are not relevant to the content. I use debates, would you rather questions, etc.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade

2024-06-04 17:31:10 UTC

Students each have a card with a question and an answer. They quiz each other and they coach each other. After, they trade cards and search for a new partner and repeat

Argumentative Writing

2024-06-04 18:35:42 UTC

Students write letter to parents to convince them to buy them something; this helps students understand the process of writing an argumentative essay.

olusolaoyinsan — 2026-04-28 04:12:41 UTC