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What is Interact?

What is Interact?. Active learning projects that: use authentic situations engage students challenge students. What do Interact students do?. work collaboratively problem solve enact historic events design scientific and mathematical inquiries complete fun language arts projects.

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What is Interact?

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  1. What is Interact? • Active learning projects that: • use authentic situations • engage students • challenge students

  2. What do Interact students do? • work collaboratively • problem solve • enact historic events • design scientific and mathematical inquiries • complete fun language arts projects

  3. How is Interact different? Simultaneouslymeetstwoprimary goals: 1. student skills acquisition 2. student retention of content knowledge

  4. What is the Interact library? A comprehensive collection of 74 engaging lessons for every subject in elementary school

  5. What is the Interact library? • The Interact Library addresses the goals of: • Literacyin: • Math Science • Language Arts • History • Geography • Character • Communities • Skills developmentin: • Reading • Writing • Critical thinking • Communicating • Collaboration

  6. What is the Interact library? Written by teachers for teachers, each lesson is easy to use and tailor to your individual requirements

  7. How is Interact aligned with brain research? • Collaborative projects • Constructivism • Non-verbal/linguistic projects enable: • Multiple Intelligences • English Language Learners

  8. How is Interact aligned with brain research? • The brain: • retains information in a • safe • challenging • collaborativesetting

  9. How is Interact aligned with brain research? Ongoing neuroscience research has strongly supported constructivist teaching –Interact students actively interpret new knowledge creatively

  10. How is Interact aligned with brain research? Decades of research yielded nine essential teaching strategies that result in measurable percentile gains. Cooperative learning, one essential strategy, is the format of every Interact lesson

  11. Interact engages Gardner’s multiple intelligences Students quickly access content in areas of strength while developing other talents. intrapersonal spatial kinesthetic verbal linguistic interpersonal

  12. Interact gives English Language Learners content access andskills • supportive • safe • collaborative structure for: • peer interpretation • constructive feedback This strategy has beenproven toimprove student achievement

  13. Sample lesson highlights The following slides are examples of Interact lesson features. • Sailor of the Stars • grades 4 – 8 • multidisciplinary This lesson is approved by an astronaut!

  14. Sample lesson: Sailor of the Stars Teachers use the detailed unit time chart to plan the perfect lesson and unit. Easy to differentiate

  15. Sample lesson: Sailor of the Stars Tables of content streamlines lesson planning. Easy to differentiate

  16. Sample lesson: Sailor of the Stars Main and optional lessons detail each interdisciplinary standard addressed Interdisciplinary

  17. Sample lesson: Sailor of the Stars Pretests prepare students and teachers for successful instruction. Assessment

  18. Sample lesson: Sailor of the Stars Students write a 5 paragraph brief on meteor damage and possible solutions. Language Arts

  19. Sample lesson: Sailor of the Stars Timeline of space exploration through the ages charts scientific developments over time. Social Studies

  20. Learning by Doing

  21. Call or email now • Call or email your sales representative for a: • demonstration • samplefrom the 74 complete lesson • brochure with details of strategies Visitwww.teachinteract.com/library

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