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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
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.
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
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).