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Students make connections to prior knowledge and experiences.
Engaged and Worthwhile Learning Questions
How will you ensure that concepts and tasks are authentically related to students’ prior knowledge
and experiences? How will you help students tap their prior learning and experiences? How will you guide
students to confront and overcome their misconceptions?
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Brainstorm with a flip chart and markers.
Create a K-W-L chart. (Students identify what they KNOW about a topic, determine what they WANT to know
about the topic, and then summarize what they LEARNED about the topic.)
Review past learning and write it on the chalkboard.
Talk about similar and familiar situations and ideas.List them on a flip chart.
Categorize ideas, jot them on note cards, then connect the cards the way ideas seem to go together.
View videos and movies to activate prior knowledge about a topic.
View situations that promote cognitive conflict.
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Use brainstorming software.
Use concept mapping software.
Use storyboard software.
Create a classroom database of learning.
View CD-ROMs of familiar and new ideas of events, concepts, and issues.
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