Instruction+That+Works+&+Technology

===In their book, //Classroom Instruction That Works//, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock identify nine instructional strategies that research indicates are effective for increasing student achievement. The integration of technology enhances each of these strategies. In most cases, teachers can use interactive websites as whole-class or center activities to reinforce effective classroom instructional strategies. Teachers can also develop projects that require students to practice the strategies, and samples of projects are attached. Finally, I've identified resources where teachers can locate templates such as graphic organizers for multiple purposes. Not all of what is listed below will be mentioned in class -- three hours is simply not enough! But, you can explore the additional resources at your convenience, even months later. ---Boni===

===Note: Information concerning the effect sizes and their % equivalents is taken from Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's book as well as the McREL workbook on using technology with the effective instructional strategies. McREL offers workshops on this topic. Generally, my ideas are supplemental to the ideas generated by the McREL workshop.===

Website with templates for graphic organizers grouped by the nine strategies: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/ Websites with graphic organizers for multiple purposes: http://www.thinkport.org/Technology/template.tp and http://web000.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Tools/Index.htm [|Technology Integration Matrix] with examples of each level -- evaluate yourself and your school

Activating Background Knowledge
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__Identifying Similarities & Differences__
Identifying Similarities and Differences Presentation slides (I have removed links to specific projects but not to websites. Usually, you will find the projects linked here for download.)

Compare & Contrast
[|[[http://www.writedesignonline.com/organizers/comparecontrast.html|Compare & Contrast Graphic Organizers]]] [|Compare & Contrast tutorial and worksheets for Primary Students] [|Interactive Venn Diagram] [| Compare & Constrast Graphic Organizer] (and other graphic organizers) [|Similarities and Differences] Interactive site where students type in the similarities and differences between similar items. Can print. [|Read, Write Think Lessons and Organizers for Compare-Contrast] [|Compare Contrast Webquest (2nd)] [|Practice Paragraph (4th)] [|Teaching the Compare-Contrast Essay]: Intermediate to middle school students; handouts included [|Everquest]: A multi-discipline collection of lessons about a journey to Everest. Excellent ideas for transferring to other content areas. [|Writing Fix Focus on Sim and Diff]: On this site, teachers share books, graphic organizers and lesson plans for writing with similarities and differences Student Project Life Zones Student Project & Template Alike but Different: Student Project: Earth Day Project

Classifying
[|What's My Class?] [|Classifications (3-5)] [|Save the Farm] [|Inferencing Riddles] [|Classify This!] Scholastic website has students separate groups of animals (insect-like) to identify true bugs. Older students who read well. Inferencing is necessary. [|Classifying Galaxies] Students learn about Hubble's Tuning Fork and try to classify galaxies by shape (grades 5-8) [|Sorting Animals] Three activities for young students by how they move (K-2) [|Sorting Adults and Babies] Three activities for sorting animals by age (K-2) [|Sorting by Sound] Two activities to practice identifying sounds (K-2) [|Fly, Walk or Slither?] Can you sort the animals by how they move?

Metaphors
[|Instant Poetry Forms] [|Chasing Metaphors] This video project could be done with stills in Photo Story as well. [|Timed Metaphors] [| Figurative Language Graphic Organizer] Student Project Figurative Language: Student Project Figurative Language (3rd): Student Project Metaphors in Nature:

Analogies
[|Animal Analogies] (2-3) [|Awesome Analogies (4-8)] [|Analogy Game (5-6)] [|Analogy Explanation & Links] [|Analogy Quiz] Template for PowerPoint Quiz on Analogies (offered on the web for downloading and use): Template for creating analogies: List of analogy categories and samples (adapted from web):

__Summarizing & Note Taking__
Summarizing and Note Taking Presentation Slides (links to files removed; links to websites retained) [|Summarizing and Note-taking Templates]

Summarizing
Teachers tend to think of summarizing as writing formal summaries, but we need to expand our definition to include activities that require students to comprehend a body of knowledge, sort out the important from the interesting, and restate the information in a coherent way. Formal written summaries are a good skill to learn (though not worth HOURS of instructional time because they are so rare in adult life), but even more important are the skills within summarizing: finding a main idea, sequencing events, giving the gist in one sentence, creating and solving riddles, creating timelines, presenting a pro or con position in a few short sentences, and other tasks that require recall and retell.

[|Summarizing Practice] (grades 4-8) [|Summarize as You Read](grades 4-8) Graphic Organizer for Summarizing: For more samples like this, visit [|Guilford School District] in NC. This frame was adapted from their Learning Frame. [|The Long and Short of It]: Three lesson plans based on the same article (included) teaches students strategies for summarizing. Excellent plans. [|Summarizing Strategies]: Six strategies one teacher uses to practice summarizing [|What's the Big Idea?] Geared for 2-3 graders by Harcourt; short paragraphs, correct answers allow the student to guess a riddle [|Identifying the Main Idea]: Ten short paragraphs with multiple choice selection for main ideas [|Main Idea Practice for Sixth Graders]: 40 short passages with multiple choice Passage to AutoSummarize in word processing: http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b210.html [|Sequencing] is a variation of summarizing. For young students, sequencing with pictures develops the ability to summarize by separating out the important information and putting it in order. This site has several mini books with accompanying sequencing cards to practice sequencing. Note the the site has some religious materials.

Note Taking
[|Fact Frenzy]: A demonstration of note-taking with exercises [|Tools for Note Taking] [|Note Taking Organizers] [|Trash and Treasure Notetaking article] [|Cornell Notes Generator] Teacher Sample Notes Guide for Bill of Rights Teacher Sample Bubble Map Teacher Sample Combination Notes for Food Chain Teacher Sample Notes Map for Constitution Unit Teacher Sample Notes Organizer for Habitat Research Teacher Sample Pre and Post Reading Guide Teacher Sample Reindeer Research Notes Guide Teacher Sample Story Notes Guide Teacher Sample 2-column Notes Teacher Template and Student Sample and [|Bird Website] and [|Teacher-Provided Notesheets] in pdf

__Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition__
Effort & Recognition Presentation Slides (links to files removed; links to websites retained)

Reinforcing Effort
[|Walking Log] [|Walk to School Day Oct. 8,2008] [|Scrabble Game] Teacher Samples Effort Rubric for Self-Evaluation on Collaborative Projects or Student Project Ecology Flyers Student Project Vocabulary Challenge Student Project People Who Make a Difference or Student Project I Can Make a Difference  or [|Effort Log] Log how much effort you put into the day's activities Excellent podcasts on [|Behavior Management]: praise, cultural influences on learning styles, managment systems

Providing Recognition
[|Article on Ineffectiveness of Rewards] [|Awards & Certificates] [|Guidelines for Publishing Student Work] [|Kind Acts Awards for Students] [|Honoring Students Awards Listing] [|Free Rice]: Vocabulary quizzes that donate 20 grains of rice for each correct answer -- recognition through helping others [|Customized Awards]: Print or email these awards Need ideas for rewards? Here's list of possibilities: [|Jackpot!] From this list, choose the ones that are 1. Acceptable to you, the teacher, as doable, and 2. Acceptable to the school community as appropriate. Offer students the chance to choose from the list to create individualized reward choices. When they earn a reward, the choose what it is. [|Troubleshooting a Failing Reward System]

__Homework & Practice__
Homework & Practice Presentation Slides (links to files removed, links to websites retained)

Homework
[|Spelling Practice] [|Rubric Maker] Reading Calendar Homework Excuse : If you assign homework, require that everyone either turn in the homework or fill out a homework excuse. During conferences, parents can see the evidence of incomplete homework and the reasons for it. Sample Differentiated Homework Assignment [|Arapahoe Library Live Homework Help] [|TIPS]: Sample homework assignments that meet best practice

Practice
[|Literactive] [|Reading A-Z] (fee required but some services are free) [|Starfall] (pre-K-2) [|Reading Motivation] [|Everyday Math Skills Practice] [|Resources for K-12 Teachers] [|Millionaire Template]

__Nonlinguistic Representation__
Nonlinguistic Representation Presentation Slides (links to files removed; links to websites retained) [|The Education Podcast Network] [|ITunes Store] (click on podcasts) [|Reaction] (Create a food web) [|Thinkport] (Podcasting information) [|Sing Along Songs] British site [|Songs for Learning English] [|Visuwords]: A visual thesaurus

Student Projects Idiom Dictionary Page: and Student Project Suffixes: Student Project: Life Zones: Student Project Oceans Food Web: Student Project Vocabulary web Student Project Nutrition Student Project Insects Student Project ABC Guide to Remembering/Reviewing

__Cooperative Learning__
Cooperative Learning (links to files removed; links to websites retained) [|Global SchoolNet]: Find collaborative partners and join projects FREE [|Kids Curators]: Students create a museum based on Big Questions [|Online Timer] Use timers for short cooperative activities to give students a clear expectation of what should be accomplished [|DustBowl Webquest (5th)] [|Immigration Webquest] Although this is Iowa-based, its concepts and tools could be used for any state [|Blog Basics] How to create and use a blog [|Wiki Basics] How to create and use a wiki [|Gold Rush Webquest] [|Shrinking a Landfill] [|Podcasting Project Ideas] Podcasting can be an excellent example of cooperative learning [|Forms and Ideas for Cooperative Learning] [|Homesteading Mars]: (3-5) What would it take to homestead Mars with 100 people? [|Marble Roll]: (4-5) How far will a marble roll? [|Letterpop] Free online newsletter tool

Screencast describing the process to create and use sub-accounts in gmail for students. http://www.screencast.com/users/courosa/folders/Jing/media/7c606039-4d17-4369-b99b-c467de708a36

__Setting Goals & Providing Feedback__
Setting Goals & Providing Feedback Presentation Slides (links to files removed; links to websites retained)

Setting Goals
Student Project Reading Goal Graph: Student Project Writing with Vocabulary: [|Sample Goal Setting Form for Grading Period] Sample Mini Goal Form (© 2004 by Education World®)

Providing Feedback
[|Food Web] [|Rubric Finder] [|Houghton-Mifflin Rubrics & Graphic Organizers] [|That Quiz] Effort Rubric with pictures

__Generating and Testing Hypotheses__
Generating & Testing Hypotheses Presentation Slides (links to files removed; links to websites retained) [|Create A Graph]: Free web resource for graphing inquiry results

Systems Analysis
[|Build An Online Habitat] [|Build a Satellite] [|Virtual Pond] [|Making Fossils] [|Design a Planet] Guided and audio-supported practice in determining a planet that on which humans could survive, but not exactly like Earth Student Project Ocean Food Web:

Problem Solving
[|Animal Challenges] [|Virus Hunt] [|My Life as an Elk] [|Zoopz Games] [|Mysteries] [|Archibald's Adventure] [|Mystery Net's Mysteries] [|Meet Me at Midnight] (Smithsonian mystery) [|Rush Hour]

Historical Investigation
[|Life in a Sod House] [|A. Pintura, Art Detective] [|Colorado History] [|Food Discoveries] [|Farms Then and Now] [|Mystery Photo] [|History Mystery]

Invention
[|Build a Roller Coaster] [|Build a Roller Coaster 2] [|Build a Roller Coaster 3] [|Invention At Play] [|Line Rider]

Experimental Inquiry
[|Hair Detective] [|Owl Pellet Dissection] [|Science Modules] [|Animal Camouflage] [|Edheads] -- Virtual Knee Surgery, Weather, Simple Machines [|Interactive Science & Engineering] (7-11 year olds) [|Physics Interactives] [|Natural History Games] [|Weather Information] for climate comparisons with other cities [|Alien Xperiment] Create a plan and conduct an experiment to determine which food the alien ate. [|Planet Impact]: Discover the impact of gravity on planets (Grades 5-8) K-12 [|Lesson] on Creating Hypotheses and Conducting Experiments with observation sheet

Decision-Making
[|Human and Animal Habitats] [|Efficient Errands] [|Insect Hunt] [|Viking Quest]: A middle school simulation of a viking journey forces good decisions for survival [|Wolf Quest]: Designed for 10-13 year olds, this downloadable program simulates the life of a wolf in Yellowstone. Sponsored by NSF, it allows chat in 'wolf talk' and will eventually allow packs of wolves to work together online. [|Be the Mastermind]: Help NASA unscramble the space mission to fix the Hubble. [|Betwixt Folly and Fate]: Role playing as a character in Colonial Williamsburg. (grades 4-8) [|Fly the Mail]: Make decisions about how to fly the mail from New York to Cleveland in 1920. [|Shedd Aquarium Interactives]: Search by grade level for interactives that require decision-making

__Activating Background Knowledge (Cues, Questions, & Advance Organizers)__
Background Knowledge Presentation Slides (links to files removed; links to websites retained) [|Collaborative Mapping] [|Gliffy (Webbing)] [|Website of Interactive Organizers] [|RubiStar Rubric Maker] [|Graphic Organizers] Word-limited PowerPoint: KWL with embedded video: [|Anticipation Guide Blank] [|Anticipation Guide for Hatchet] [|Lesson for Heart Study] with [|Anticipation Guide for Heart Study] (K-3) and [|Anticipation Guide for Heart Study] (4-6) Teacher Sample Anticipation Guide for Internet Study [|Anticipation Guide]for Mrs. Rumphius by Conway (3rd) [|Prediction Guide] for Science Text (7th) [|Multimedia Resources] [|Graphic Organizers]: Holt has provided a number of graphic organizers that can be downloaded, typed in, and printed. [|Essential Questions] article [|Esssential Question] resources list

Metamorphosis Resources (Activating Background Knowledge sample)
[|Katrina the Caterpillar] An animated book about a caterpillar who dreams of freedom but is also afraid [|Metamorphosis] An animated text with a catchy song about the questions children have about caterpillars and metamorphosis [|Video Clip on Metamorphosis] After registering, you can download the clip and handouts for sequencing the stages of metamorphosis for a frog, dragonfly, and butterfly. __Anticipation Guide__ for focusing young students on the video clip. Question is "Who undergoes the most change?" and the guide uses pictures to help students. Meant for K-1 students. Student Project Four Squares