Monday, February 25, 2019

More Scrambled SOS

Spotlight On Strategies: Change It Up! Scrambled Please


Welcome to a special SOS Top Ten series called Change It Up. For years you’ve told us the best part of the SOS is their adaptability for use across grade levels and content areas.
In this series, we take tried and true Spotlight on Strategies (CDN Version) instructional ideas and share ways to adjust or adapt for your classroom.
We’d love to know what your favorite adaptations are; visit the DEN Online Community to share more ideas!

Change It Up:

Big idea: Provide students with a fun and challenging way to sequence ideas, 
events, or steps.
Materials: copies of any text that progresses in sequential order (e.g., reading 
passages, speeches, historical documents, mathematical or scientific 
processes) with the last paragraph(s) of your chosen text removed 
and cut into pieces.

In language arts…

… ask students to analyze and put into sequence excerpts of a text or 
video transcript they are studying.
… have students practice using sequence words such as firstnext, and 
last as they put portions of a text into the correct order.

In mathematics…

…. ask students to view a media selection that introduces problem-solving 
strategies and then provide them with a multiple-step word problem that 
has been cut apart. Ask students to work with a partner to reorder the 
problem and then see if they can correctly solve it.

In science…

…introduce students to a new unit of study by giving them steps of a 
science experiment that have been scrambled. Ask them to work 
together to read, analyze, and put the steps of the experiment into the correct order.

In social studies…

…assess what students have learned about a period in history 
by asking them to first watch a related video segment and then 
correctly sequence the events.

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