Can We PleaseHave Some Fun?

Ideas taken from

Sit & Get Won’t Grow Dendrites

by Marcia L. Tate

Strategy # 1 Brainstorming and Discussion

Strategy # 2 Drawing and Artwork

Strategy # 3 Field Trips

Strategy # 4 Games

Strategy # 5 Graphic Organizers

Strategy # 6 Humor and Celebration

Why did the teacher wearsunglasses to class?Because her class was so bright!

What did the trianglesay to the circle?You have no point.

What did the 30 degree angle say to the 105 degree angel?Don’t be so obtuse.

Strategy # 7 Manipulatives and Models

Strategy # 8 Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes

AnalogiesMacaroni : pasta :: monkey : mammalDenominator : fraction :: stem : flowerFive : ten :: eight : sixteenAnkle : foot :: wrist : hand

Similes•As good as gold —Charles Dickens•My heart is like an open highway – Jon Bon Jovi•A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle – Irina Dunn

Metaphors•That new worker is pretty green. One's life ripens with experience. •The guy is a rock. Certainty is a solid.•She's quite a catch!

Strategy # 9 Mnemonic Devices• My Very Enthusiastic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Nothing

(The planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth , Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

• HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior)

• People Really Hate Eating Donuts And Cold Cider. (seven steps in the scientific method. Problem, Research, Hypotheses, Experiment/Data, Analyze, Conclusion, Communicate)

• MAIN (4 main causes of WWI – Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, Nationalism)

• Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Order of operations in math – Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction)

Strategy # 10 Movement

Strategy # 11 Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap

Strategy # 12 Project- and Problem-Based Instruction

M is f or Mississippi. The Mississippi River is the largest river in the United States and the third largest in the World. I t stretches f rom Lake I taska to the Gulf of Mexico covering 1,150,000 square miles. Some cities in I owa that border the Mississippi are Dubuque, Davenport, Fort Madison, Keokuk, Clinton, and Burlington. Some facts about the Mississippi are: I n 1993 it was the biggest flood in the whole upper Mississippi, and that in 1927 was the biggest flood in the whole lower Mississippi. Did you know that there is a place in the Mississippi that is so polluted that nothing can live there? Or, did you know that it is not safe to eat fish that live in the Mississippi because of the pollution in the water?

Resource: Encarta’2000

Strategy # 13 Reciprocal Teaching, Cooperative Learning,

and Peer Coaching

Strategy # 14 Role-Plays, Drama, Pantomimes, and Charades

Strategy # 15 Storytelling

Strategy # 16 TechnologyDate # Eggs

Collected# Eggs Sold

Total # Eggs

Total Sales

8/19/06 14 1 doz 3 doz +8 $1.00

8/20/06 3 2 doz 1 doz + 11 $2.00

Strategy # 17 Visualization

Strategy # 18 Visuals

Strategy # 19 Work Study and Action Research

Strategy # 20 Writing and Reflection

Thank You!

This presentation was prepared for you by Carolyn Wiezorek with the help of many talented students.