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Making Thinking Visible Strategies in Social Studies - 2 nd and 3 rd Grade. BISD – April 2014. Let’s get started. Before we start, let’s review what it feels like to be a teacher What its like every day. Think – Puzzle – Explore. What will we do today?.
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Making Thinking Visible Strategies in Social Studies - 2nd and 3rd Grade BISD – April 2014
Let’s get started • Before we start, let’s review what it feels like to be a teacher • What its like every day
What will we do today? • 2nd Grade – Scientists, Technology, and Society, Patriotic Celebrations • 3rd Grade – Artists and Writers
Think-Puzzle-Explore What makes you say that? What akes you say that?
How does this relate to the TEKS? • 2.18A - express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences • 3.18A – express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences
How would you use this in your classroom? Time for a: Turn & Talk
Let’s Play the Explanation Game 1. Name it – Name what you see. 2. Explain it – Explain what it is you see. 3. Give reasons – What in the picture makes you think that? 4. Give alternatives – What else could it be?
Let’s Play the Explanation Game 1. Name it – Name what you see. 2. Explain it – Explain what it is you see. 3. Give reasons – What in the picture makes you think that? 4. Give alternatives – What else could it be?
Let’s Play the Explanation Game 1. Name it – Name what you see. 2. Explain it – Explain what it is you see. 3. Give reasons – What in the picture makes you think that? 4. Give alternatives – What else could it be?
Let’s Play the Explanation Game 2. Explain it – Explain what it is you see. 1. Name it – Name what you see. 3. Give reasons – What in the picture makes you think that? 4. Give alternatives – What else could it be?
How does this relate to the TEKS? • 3.15B – explain the significance of various individual writers and artists such as Carmen Lomas Garza and Bill Martin Jr. and their stories, poems, statues, and paintings and other examples of cultural heritage to various communities • 3.17E – interpret and create visuals, including graphs, charts, tables, timelines, illustrations and maps • 2.18A – obtain information about a topic using a variety of valid visual sources such as pictures, maps, electronic sources, reference sources, and artifacts
Headlines • Headlines is used to focus on the synthesis of learning • This is done after a learning experience • Poem • Visual • Think-Puzzle-Explore
What is a headline? • The head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and giving the gist of the story or article that follows.
What does this headline mean? From this headline, can you tell what the article will be about?
Let’s go back in time! Listen for what is significant about Independence Day. http://viewpure.com/zmSVnP-oDRs
Let’s create a headline! • After watching the video – work with a partner to create a headline about the 4th of July.
More about Headlines • 2.18E – interpret oral, visual, and print material by identifying the main idea, predicting, and comparing and contrasting • 3.17C – interpret oral, visual, and print material by identifying the main idea, distinguishing between fact and opinion, identifying cause and effect, and comparing and contrasting
Bill Martin Jr. • I used to think now I think…. • Great strategy to use at the end of a lesson to see if your opinions have changed. • Great pair follow up to Think-Puzzle-Explore
I Used to Think… Now I Think What makes you say that?
Where could I find this information after the training? Strategies and Structures is located under Yearly Content Documents