Session 3: Locating Information

1. Session 3: Locating Information ACT WorkKeys Teacher Prep MISD Kimberly Hase January 15, 2010

2. Locating Information • Why is this a big deal? • A recent survey found that 22.1% of hourly employees had an inability to read and translate drawings, diagrams, and flow charts.

3. Practice Problems • Things you need: • Cell phone and the ability to send a text • Handout with questions • Pen/pencil/crayon/marker/something that marks on paper • What to do: • Work independently to answer each question • Text the answer to each question (see the next four slides)

4. Level Three Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

5. Level Four Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

6. Level Five Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

7. Level Six Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

8. Understanding Levels • What differences/similarities do you see between the four levels? ***Consider skills, thought process and information presented • Level Three- • Level Four- • Level Five- • Level Six-

9. Process • Record the thinking processes or steps you used for each question • Example-Level Three • Read the question • look at format of graphic • Read the labels/words on the graphic • Determine what the graphic is telling me • Answer the question

10. How can I teach this? • Use graphics daily- • www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm • Making Thinking Visible • Model your thinking • Using steps, talk your way through them • Students share their thinking • Pairs in which one student speaks, explaining thought process they used • Writing thought process when using graphics • Creating graphics of their own work