When planning for studentexperiences in the classroom,

consider the following information:

Average Retention Rateafter 24 hours

Lecture

Reading

Audio-Visual

Demonstration

Discussion Group

Practice by Doing

Teach Others / Use New Learning

5 %

10 %

20 %

30 %

50 %

75 %

90 %

How the Brain LearnsDavid Sousa

Consider these when building student choice

into class projects,activities, labs and

other experiences …

How will students show whatthey know?

Multiple Intelligence

Bodily Kinestheticrole play, exercise,

drama, mime, activities,simulations, games, sports

Spatialmind-maps, movement,

sense of body and distance, drawings, poster charts,

memory maps

Intrapersonalreflective, thinking,

visualization, metacognition,journal writing, self-discovery

Mathematical/Logicalanalysis, prediction,

reasoning, problem-solving,proving, cause-effect

Naturalistclassifying, environment,minerals, insects, plants

Verbal-Linguisticstories, debate, humor,

dialogs, speech, reading

Interpersonalcooperation, partners,teams, pairs, groups, win-win competition

Musical-Rhythmicrhymes, music, songs,

listening, raps, humming,concert reading

If you are considering activitiesthat will engage students in the

writing process, think about these:

Accurate

Complete

Coherent

Evidence

ConstructedResponseStory

Word families

Hand Signals

Role Play

Word Pictures

Cubing

ConceptMapping

Charts, Graphs & Tables

PicturesGroup

Reports/WhiteBoarding

SummarizingMultiple Views

Comic StripWord Sort/Prediction

Who or Whatam I?

S.U.B.J.E.C.T.acronym

Games

Songs, poems

Journal WritingDouble/Triple Entry

SEED IDEAS assist in… Source How to Think Like Einstein and Thinker Toys …Thinking Ambidextrously …Getting out and staying out of old furrows or ruts…Pulling us out of a rut and giving us a whole new perspective for making new connections, forming new patterns of thinking, and deepening understanding…Freeing your natural brilliance to create new connections and deepen your understanding A LIST OF POSSIBLE SEED IDEASON NEXT SLIDE… Try making up one of your own! PLANTING SEEDS……Marry the concepts to be learned to the seed idea. …Use joke to express the connection…Create a picture to join the ideas…Experience the concept for learning from the point of view of the seed idea…Use the characteristics of the seed idea to form new patterns of thinking about the concept for learning…Consider how the seed idea can be differentiated…example: nail—how is one nail different from another and what new connections to the concept for learning can be made?…Compare and contrast the concept for learning with the seed idea—open or focused. How is concept for learning like…the seed idea? * If the relationship between the seed idea and concept for learning is strong, then the seed idea is inside the rut and may not pull you out.

Possible seed ideas