Transcript Bell Ringers Made Easy

Jennifer Payne, CSCOPE Consultant
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Laying ground work…
 Where will the student keep work?
 Does work every go out of the room?
 What kind of time do bell ringers take?
 How are kids managed/monitored?
 What benefits come from bell ringer
activities?
What are Bell Ringers?
 Frame s class time (bell to bell instruction)
 Every second is precious.
 Transitions are not written off time.
 Even three minutes can make the difference
in instruction.
 Ask yourself…Do I have access to bell ringers
in my current curriculum?
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
Management/Monitoring
 Folders/Journals/Learning Notebooks
kept in classroom
 Standard form for completing the Bell
Ringer
 They are collected and graded every
5th class period.
 Completeness
 Participation
 Accuracy
 If a student is absent, they can copy
the prompt from a neighbor
TASK of Bell Ringers
 What do we expect
of bell ringers?
 Purposeful
 Content based
 Thought out
 Engaging
 Students can
manage
 You can monitor
 Transitions
during class
period
 Review
 Preview
 Work smart, not
hard.
Bell Ringer Ideas
 Remember REVIEW and
 Art and Images
PREVIEW lesson.
 Political Cartoons:
Historical and Current
 Video Clips
 Coaching Questions
 Games
 Activities
 Document pieces
 Pre-assessment
 This Day in History
 Short Readings
 Frayer Model
 Graphic organizers
Political Cartoons
 Use APPARTS or SOAPS to analyze cartoons
Author
Place and Time
Prior Knowledge
Audience
Reason
The Main Idea
Significance
Subject
Occasion (Context)
Audience
Purpose
Speaker
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 This model
communicates what
message?
 Graphics can be
captured and used to
launch prior knowledge.
Video Clips
 KET Encyclomedia
 TeacherTube; YouTube
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 profits
B. 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 area
D. Newspaper workers go on strike when contract talks
with company officials fail
Coach Questions
 When rounding numbers , students use the place
values to determine number rounded possibility. List
two numbers you could round the following number.
 4567
 During World War II, the United States experienced
many shortages of resources.
Identify two shortages the United States experienced
during World War II.
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 Within lessons there are
scaffolding questions.
 Moves through Blooms
 Places teachers as
facilitator.
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
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Games and
Activities inside
lessons.
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.
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Fold books and
graphic organizers
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?
Not knowing multiplication tables is like
this because…
How is this like math computation?
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Some lessons offer art and
images.
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
CSCOPE Connection
Recipe Card for _______
 What are ingredients
 What are steps
 Flow chart of steps within…
PreAssessment
 This could take the form of a short quiz, or a
simple ID:
List 3 things you
know about Native
American culture.
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 The puffer used what force to
move the cup down the meter
stick?
 What force did the puffer
have to overcome?
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
Math problems of the day
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Analogies
 ______________ is as __________ as _____________
 ___________________is to ________________ as
Sun is to the sky
Short Readings
 Primary Source Documents
 Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story
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Frayer Model
Definition
Analysis:
Everyday use
Commutative
Property
Illustration
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