april white, paradise valley high school katy groseta, buckeye union high school classroom...
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APRIL WHITE, PARADISE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
KATY GROSETA, BUCKEYE UNION HIGH SCHOOL
Classroom Strategies&
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T-Shirt Art
Directions:Design artwork for a tee shirt representing the assigned CONCEPTS (push mower safety)1. Front of Shirt must have artwork (minimum of 4 colors) showing the concept, variable or term.2. Back of the shirt must have a 1 or 2 line ‘cute or clever (but CLEAN)’ saying using the concept, variable or term3. A minimum of 1 paragraph explaining how the artwork and saying get the SCIENCE idea across must be written.The IDEA/CONCEPT for this assignment is
Party Host Moment
Party host must identify all “guests” in attendance Guests can be given ID in advance or during that class
period Advance notice helps host and participants
Great as a review Species identification Tool or machinery ID Vocabulary review
Today’s category: species of Arizona fish Any fish experts in the crowd?
Today’s category: species of Arizona fish
Striped bassGreen sunfishSpikedaceSonora chubAngelfish
Razorback suckerBeautiful shinerColorado squawfishBrown troutSmall mouth bass
Using 3 x 5 cards
Using 3 x 5 cards
Warning: they’ll change your lifeVariations
Hand out at beginning of class Use during class or at end
Create your own memory game Have students create your own jeopardy questions Zip Around
Can also use multi-color packs to help partner/group students and combine with one of the review activities
Pairing Off & Grouping Up
Line students up using different parameters Shoe size Age Birth month or date Height Alphabetical by first name (middle name? last name?)
Once you have them lined up, you can slide the line, weave the line, work with a neighbor
Trivia Pairs Each student is given one item of information and must
find the other students who have similar info to form a group.
Ex: Give one student ewe, one student lamb and one student wether.
Give out names of something (e.g. commodities, livestock, greenhouse plants, flowers) and other slips with info about each and have student match the correct description with each name.
Clock Partners
Clock Partners
It’s application time, baby!
Line up by birthday – month & day only
Use your partnership/group to apply one of today’s strategies or share one of your own for specific lessons
Be prepared to share in 10 minutes
That was nice, but where can I find more resources??
NAAE Communities of Practice
Website:http://naae.ca.uky.edu:8080/clearspace_comm
unity/index.jspa;jsessionid=B834592B5BD4223E174D8689168DF87C
32 different communities All the way from Advocacy and Ag Econ to Technology
and Vet Science
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Reviewing Posts
Can be done by community or thread
Each community has a facilitator who moderate questions and discussion
Similar topics are suggested on right side of page
Navigating Communities
Navigating Communities
Overview Greeting from facilitator Link to recent content
All Content Both discussions and documents, sorted by date
Discussions Sorted by date
Documents Downloadable
Resources on Conference jump drive
AGtivities HandbookTemplates for
Are you smarter than you Ag class? Jeopardy Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Pyramid Bingo Board
Strategies/activities for classroom notebooks Magazine article reviews Letter to the editor
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