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Bell Ringers & Warm-up Activities “Teaching Bell to Bell” Knox Doss Middle School at Drakes Creek Co-Planning Session #1 October 25, 2010

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Bell Ringers & Warm-up Activities

“Teaching Bell to Bell”

Knox Doss Middle School at Drakes CreekCo-Planning Session #1

October 25, 2010

Why Use Bell Ringers? Transition from hallway leisure to classroom learning RAP a lesson

Review And Preview Teacher Duty Time

Attendance Student Needs Shuffle

Focus students on the Learning

Bell Ringer Ideas Political Cartoons: Historical and Current Video Clips TCAP Coach Questions Games and Activities Art and Images Documents Pre-assessment & Review This Day in History Short Readings Frayer Model

Political Cartoons Use APPARTS or SOAPS to analyze cartoons

AuthorPlace and TimePrior KnowledgeAudienceReasonThe Main IdeaSignificance

SubjectOccasion (Context)AudiencePurposeSpeaker

Political Cartoons

Video Clips Discovery Streaming TeacherTube; YouTube

TCAP Coach Questions Antitrust laws, designed to prevent monopolies in the

United States, would most likely be implemented in which situation described below:A. Several steel factories lay off employees in order to

increase profitsB. A small company sells products or services under

contract to a larger company.C. A national bank buys up most smaller banks within a

geographic areaD. Newspaper workers go on strike when contract talks

with company officials fail

TCAP Coach Questions During World War II, the United States experienced

many shortages of resources. Identify two shortages the United States experienced during World War II.

Games With your partner, play Paper, Rock, Scissors for 5

minutes and keep score of who wins each game, including the ties

Good introduction to the 3 Branches of Government/ Separation of Powers. After 5 minutes of play, wins and ties should be roughly equal….balance of power. And students can associate Paper with the Legislative branch, Rock with the Executive branch, and Scissors with the Judicial Branch

Activities When teaching the

Protestant Reformation, have the students create a Top 10 List of things they would change about their school. Relate this activity to Luther’s 95 Thesis.

Art and ImagesIn AP European History, finding Point of View of documents, including works of art, is vital to the success on the AP exam.

Ask students to:•Identify the era which the work was created•Analyze the point of view of the artist (who is he, what does he know, how does he know it?)

Art and Images

When analyzing images, ask students to try to put the image in context: •What is going on the in the image?•What is the subject(s) doing, thinking?•What message is the creator trying to convey? Is there bias?

Documents We the people of the United States, in order to form a

more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

What are the six goals stated within the Preamble of the United States Constitution?

Restate these goals in your own words

PreAssessment This could take the form of a short quiz, or a

simple ID:List 3 things you know about Native American culture.

ReviewA-B-C D-E-F G-H-I

J-K-L M-N O-P-Q

R-S T-U-V W-X-Y-Z

This Day in History The History Channel offers a minute video on their

“Lead Story” in This Day in History. Browse through different topics ranging from Old

West, Disaster, Automobile, to World War II. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do www.amomentintime.com

Short Readings Primary Source Documents Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story

End of class – now what??

EXIT SLIPSWhen those final few minutes of class

arrive, three options are available:review

prediction critical thinking

Review

five-fact (or five-finger) review – “List five things we learned in class today on

your exit slip.” Such an inquiry can be re-worded or reworked for more advanced

learners – “Recall five things discussed in class, and rank them in importance from

most relevant to least relevant.”

Prediction“Considering what we discussed in class

today, what might we do tomorrow?” This style of prompt works for nearly any subject area, as nearly every class uses continuing curriculum. A good rule to give students

regarding exit slip responses has to do with the subject of length. Ordinarily, three to five well-written sentences should suffice, unless the question involves deeper thinking (see

next paragraph).

Critical Thinking

A final purpose for exit slips involves critical thinking. The possibilities for this

type of exit slip prompt are endless: “How might you have taught today’s

lesson if you were the teacher?”