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TPACK

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a framework that identifies the knowledge educators need to teach effectively with technology. At the heart of the framework is an understanding that effective teaching involves three interconnected skill domains: knowledge of content, knowledge of pedagogy, and knowledge of technology. A TPACK approach goes beyond seeing these three knowledge bases in isolation and emphasizes the new kinds of knowledge that lie at the intersections between them. Effective technology integration should begin by considering desired instructional outcomes and identifying activities that can support those outcomes. Once the instructional activities have been identified, technology tools can develop and implement them in a meaningful way.
Researchers from the College of William & Mary developed "Learning Activity Types taxonomies" that are specific for the following content areas: K-6 Literacy, Mathematics, Music, Physical Education, Science, Secondary English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, and World Languages. The chart below lists 77 of the most common cross-curricular activities, descriptions, and tools that can be used to support effective technology integration in instruction (adapted from activitytypes.wmwikis.net).
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Instructional Activity |
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Supporting Technology Tools |
Activate Prior Knowledge
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Students think about what they already know about the topic and make connections prior to learning new information. By activating or generating prior knowledge and experience, students are able to frontload meaning and forge connections that help in terms of motivation, focus, and comprehension.
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Teacher Tools: Socrative
Student Tools: Classtools: Fakebook, Classtools: Post-it, Classtools: Timeline, VoiceThread, Wixie, Kidblog, Padlet, PicLits, Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Edmodo,
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Analyze Artifacts
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Students explore a topic using physical or virtual artifacts, including data, text, images, etc.
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Teacher Tools: Prezi,,LessonPaths, Scoop it, Symbaloo
Student Tools: VoiceThread, LiveBinders, Classtools: Brainy Box, content, research
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Analyze Data
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Using student-generated data or print-based and digital data available online, students pursue original lines of inquiry and compare and contrast data collected against criteria and/or previous analyses
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Teacher Tools: Poll Daddy, Socrative, SurveyMonkey
Student Tools: Create a Graph, GapMinder, Edmodo
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Annotate
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Students make annotations in their own and others’ work based on observations and reflections related to relevant course concepts
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Microsoft Word, PBWorks, Kidblog, Edmodo, VoiceThread, Wixie
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Answer questions
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Students respond to teacher, peer, written, or digitally posed questions
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Teacher Tools: Edmodo, Kidblog, VoiceThread,
Student Tools: Poll Daddy, Socrative, SurveyMonkey, Cram, Padlet, PBWorks
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Ask questions
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Students develop questions related to course material/concepts
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Classtools: SMS Fake Text Generator, Classtools: Twister- Fake Tweet, Kidblog, PBWorks, Padlet,, Classtools: Dustbin Game, PicLits, Edmodo, VoiceThread, Classtools: Arcade Game Generator, ABCya: Crossword Puzzle Maker, Classtools: QR Game Generator
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Book Club/ Literature Circles
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Students read books, take part in peer-led discussions, and participate in a community sharing session
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: VoiceThread, Edmodo, Kidblog, PBWorks, TumbleBook Library, TumbleBook Cloud Jr, TumbleBook Cloud
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Brainstorm
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Students list as many topics as possible to write about
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Padlet
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Categorize/ Classify
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The student attempts to examine a concept or relationship in order to categorize it into a set of known categories or classify it according to course content
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Teacher Tools: Socrative
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Padlet, Wixie, PBWorks, VoiceThread, Edmodo,
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Cloze Technique
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Students insert words that have been omitted as they read to complete and construct meaning from text
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Teacher Tools: Poll Daddy, Socrative, SurveyMonkey,
Student Tools: Edmodo, Cram, ABCya: Crossword Puzzle Maker, Storybird
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Collect/ Curate
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Students upload, collect, bookmark and organize resources, artifacts, materials, works, and research
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, LiveBinders, Padlet, Classtools: Brainy Box, VoiceThread, PBWorks, research
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Compare and Contrast
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Students identify how things are alike and different in order to understand multiple characteristics, evidence, and/or perspectives on a topic
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Classtools: Post-it, Wixie, VoiceThread, Padlet
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Complete Graphic Organizers
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Students use teacher or self created visual and graphic organizers to illustrate relationships among facts, terms or ideas
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Teacher Tools: TimeToast
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Wixie, Classtools: Living Graph, Classtools: Timeline, readwritethink:Timeline, ABCya: Word Cloud for Kids, Tagxedo, Wordsift, Wordle
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Concept Mapping
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Students develop a visual or diagram that illustrates the relationships among concepts
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Teacher Tools: Gliffy, TimeToast,
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Microsoft PowerPoint, Classtools: Living Graph, Classtools: Timeline, readwritethink:Timeline, Padlet, PBWorks, ABCya: Paint, DrawIsland, Draw to, Wixie
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Conduct an Interview
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Face to face, via audio/videoconference, or via email students question someone on a chosen topic; may be digitally recorded and shared
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Teacher Tools: Twitter
Student Tools: VoiceThread, Kidblog, PBWorks, Edmodo
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Conferencing
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Students conference (in person or online, or through audio or video) with each other and/or a teacher to share writing and provide focused feedback for one another
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, Microsoft Word, Kidblog, PBWorks, VoiceThread
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Create a Game
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Students combine rules, strategies, and knowledge to develop a game, in paper or digital form, to help other students learn content
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Crossword Puzzle Maker, Classtools: Arcade Game Generator, Classtools: Dustbin Game, Classtools: Mission Mapquest, Classtools: QR Game Generator, Wixie, VoiceThread, Microsoft PowerPoint, Classtools: Post-it
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Create a Map
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Students label existing maps or produce their own; print-based materials or digitally
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Classtools: Mission Mapquest, Community Walk, Google Maps, ScribbleMaps
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Create a Newspaper/ Magazine/ Newsletter/ Brochure
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Students synthesize information from textbooks, encyclopedias, and/or websites in the form of a print-based or electronic periodical
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Teacher Tools: Scoop it
Student Tools: Kidblog, PBWorks, Storybird, LiveBinders, research, readwritethink:Trading Card Creator, Wixie
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Create a Portfolio
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Students create and document ideas, works of art, documents and other artifacts in a portfolio format
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, PBWorks, LiveBinders, VoiceThread, Microsoft PowerPoint, Wixie
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Create a Project/ Artifact
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Students create a project (e.g., play script, report, book trailer) or artifact (e.g., 3D model, diorama) as a culminating activity that illustrates or applies what they have learned
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Make Beliefs Comix, Phrase it, PicLits, readwritethink:Cube Creator, readwritethink:Timeline, readwritethink:Trading Card Creator, ScribbleMaps, Storybird, TimeToast, Voki, Wixie, Classtools: Brainy Box, Classtools: Arcade Game Generator, ABCya: Paint, ABCya: Make an Animation, ABCya: Crossword Puzzle Maker, VoiceThread, PBWorks, Kidblog Edmodo, Draw to, DrawIsland, Create a Graph, Community Walk, Classtools: Twister- Fake Tweet, Classtools: Timeline, Classtools: SMS Fake Text Generator, Classtools: QR Game Generator, Classtools: Post-it, Classtools: Living Graph, Classtools: Fakebook, Windows Live Movie Maker
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Create a Timeline/ Sequence Information
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Students sequence information, events, data and/or documents in chronological order
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Teacher Tools: TimeToast, Gliffy
Student Tools: Classtools: Living Graph, Classtools: Timeline, readwritethink:Timeline, Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Classtools: Fakebook, Classtools: Twister- Fake Tweet, Wixie, Kidblog, PBWorks, research
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Create an Illustration (accompanied by text)
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Students create a map, a concept map, word pictures, a mural, or a storyboard to illustrate concepts, events, or topics related to a learning unit.
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Paint, Wixie, Voki, ABCya: Make an Animation, Make Beliefs Comix, PicLits, Storybird, VoiceThread, Classtools: Timeline, readwritethink:Trading Card Creator, ScribbleMaps, Classtools: Living Graph, readwritethink:Timeline
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Critical Analysis / Reflection
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Students engage in activities focused on higher level, critical analysis including: applying literary theory/criticism, identifying multiple points of view, embedded values, bias, doublespeak, propaganda, etc., making inferences, evaluating sources, relevance, credibility, validity, etc.
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, Kidblog, VoiceThread, PBWorks, Classtools: Fakebook, Classtools: SMS Fake Text Generator, Classtools: Twister- Fake Tweet, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Critical Thinking, Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Critique
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Students explain and articulate ideas verbally and critically while responding to products from a variety of social, historical and contextual perspectives
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Voki, VoiceThread, Edmodo, Kidblog, Padlet, PBWorks
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Debate
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Students hold a formal or informal, structured or unstructured, synchronous or asynchronous discussion by debating both sides of an issue/proposition
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Voki, VoiceThread, Kidblog, PBWorks, Edmodo, content, research, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Critical Thinking, Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Define Terms
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Students use new and old vocabulary to compose a glossary of terms
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Padlet, PBWorks ABCya: Crossword Puzzle Maker, Classtools: Arcade Game Generator, Classtools: QR Game Generator, Wixie, VoiceThread, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, research
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Demonstrate
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Student makes a demonstration on some topic to show their understanding of an idea or process
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Make an Animation, Windows Live Movie Maker, VoiceThread, Wixie
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Describe
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Student produces an explanation of an object or concept
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Make an Animation, Draw to, DrawIsland, Wixie, Edmodo, Voki, VoiceThread, Classtools: Diagrams, Kidblog, Make Beliefs Comix, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint
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Develop a Metaphor
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Students devise a metaphorical representation of a course topic/idea
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Paint, DrawIsland, Draw to, Wixie, Kidblog, PBWorks, Microsoft PowerPoint, Classtools: Brainy Box
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Develop Vocabulary
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Students are introduced to and learn unfamiliar key words before they read
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Teacher Tools: Prezi, UDL Book Builder
Student Tools: VoiceThread, Voki, Edmodo, Classtools: Arcade Game Generator, Classtools: QR Game Generator, Microsoft PowerPoint,, Padlet, PicLits
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Directed/ Guided Reading
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Students are provided specific directions and guidance with a particular text that might range from setting a specific purpose for reading (e.g. to determine the reliability of the narrator) to a directed reading-thinking activity (DR-TA), to a detailed guided reading roadmap (i.e., slow down here, skim this, reread here and take notes, skip this section, etc).
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Teacher Tools: UDL Book Builder, Piktochart Education, LessonPaths, Screen Leap
Student Tools: LiveBinders, Edmodo,, Classtools: Countdown Timer
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Discussion
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Students engage in dialogue about text, a concept, or a process with a teacher, other students, or an external expert, synchronously or asynchronously
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Teacher Tools: Twitter
Student Tools: Edmodo, Kidblog, PBWorks, VoiceThread
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Drafting/Composing
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Students write a draft, putting ideas into sentences and paragraphs
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Type a Friendly Letter, Kidblog, Microsoft Word, PBWorks, Storybird, PicLits, Wixie
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Dramatic Reading/ Reader’s Theater
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Students participate in and observe dramatic readings of text to enhance interest, motivation, and comprehension
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Teacher Tools: Prezi
Student Tools: Windows Live Movie Maker, Voki, VoiceThread, Wixie
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Draw a Picture or Cartoon
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Students create a physical or virtual drawing or caricature using a paper and pencil or digital format
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Make an Animation, ABCya: Paint, Draw to, DrawIsland, Wixie, Voki, Make Beliefs Comix
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Drill and Practice
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Students rehearse a strategy or technique, and uses repetition and feedback in the practice process
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Teacher Tools: Poll Daddy, SurveyMonkey,
Student Tools: Classtools: Arcade Game Generator, Classtools: Dustbin Game, Classtools: QR Game Generator, Cram, Edmodo, Socrative
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Engage in a Simulation
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Students engage in experiences focused on a content topic that mirrors the complexity of the real world
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: 100 Number Chart, ABCya: Math Tiles
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Estimate
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The student attempts to approximate some mathematical value by further examining relationships
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Teacher Tools: Poll Daddy, SurveyMonkey
Student Tools: ABCya: 100 Number Chart, ABCya: Math Tiles, Edmodo, Socrative
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Evaluate self and/or peers
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Students observe their own or a peer’s performance and analyze the performance against predetermined criteria (form and/or product)
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Teacher Tools: Rubistar, iRubric
Student Tools: VoiceThread, Edmodo, Kidblog, PBWorks
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Experience a Field Trip
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Students travel to physical or virtual sites; synchronous/asynchronous
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Teacher Tools: LessonPaths, Scoop it, Symbaloo
Student Tools: Edmodo, Google Maps, Community Walk, ScribbleMaps, America the Beautiful, BrainPop, BrainPop Jr, CultureGrams, Defined STEM, Discovery Education Streaming Plus, Safari Montage, NBC Learn
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Formal writing (essay, report, narrative, poem, diary, etc)
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Students use written forms to develop and express their own understandings of a given topic
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Type a Friendly Letter, Kidblog, PBWorks, Storybird, Wixie
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Freewriting
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Students start writing and just keep going, not worrying about style or mistakes
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Kidblog, PBWorks
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Generate/ Collect Data
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Students generate and collect data by performing and administering surveys, tests, experiments, etc.
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Teacher Tools: Poll Daddy, SurveyMonkey
Student Tools: Edmodo, Socrative, Create a Graph,
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Identify Cause and Effect
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Students identify how an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event
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Teacher Tools: Gliffy,
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, Classtools: SMS Fake Text Generator, Padlet, Storybird, Make Beliefs Comix, Wixie
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Independent Reading
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Students create or negotiate individual reading plans that involve reading chosen texts outside of school
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ebooks, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Kidblog
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Interpret Maps, Charts, and Tables
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Students extract and/or synthesize information from maps, carts, and/or tables
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Kidblog, Padlet, PBWorks. Edmodo, Classtools: Mission Mapquest, Classtools: Post-it, GapMinder, Create a Graph, Google Maps, ScribbleMaps, content, research
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Investigate a Concept
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Students explore or investigate a concept by use of research-related resources
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Teacher Tools: LessonPaths, Symbaloo, Scoop it
Student Tools: Edmodo, VoiceThread, Kidblog, PBWorks, LiveBinders, content, research
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Journaling
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Students write journal entries to brainstorm topics of personal interest, to note observations and to reflect upon their thinking
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Kidblog, Edmodo, Padlet, PBWorks, Voki, Wixie, Microsoft Word
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Label
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Students use labels to define, categorize, or classify concepts; usually in a graphic or chart
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Teacher Tools: Gliffy
Student Tools: Padlet, PBWorks, PicLits, ABCya: Paint, Wixie, Classtools: Diagrams
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Listening
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Students listen to dialogue, directions, lectures, etc, and use knowledge and competencies to go beyond “getting what was said"
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Teacher Tools: Prezi, UDL Book Builder
Student Tools: VoiceThread, Voki, PBWorks, Edmodo, Wixie, Audacity, Microsoft PowerPoint
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Maintain a Log
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Students record a log of activities, observations, perceptions, reflections on feelings; both in school and outside school
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Bubbl us, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Kidblog, Padlet, Edmodo, Wixie
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Make Inferences
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Students use clues to learn more about the text and make a conclusion or judgment based on that information
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, Kidblog, VoiceThread, Microsoft Word, PicLits, Storybird, Classtools: Brainy Box
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Make Predictions
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Students make predictions about text that will be read As a means of drawing upon existing knowledge and generating new connections with a text, students make predictions about texts.
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, Kidblog, VoiceThread, Padlet, Voki, Wixie, Classtools: Diagrams
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Outlining/ Listing
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Students generate and organize a list of topics, ideas, phrases, and/or sentences before they begin to write or create
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Kidblog, Padlet, PBWorks, Bubbl us, Classtools: Diagrams, research
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Picture Walk
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Teacher guides students through text by looking at and discussing the pictures before reading
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Teacher Tools: Piktochart Education, Prezi
Student Tools: VoiceThread, Wixie, Edmodo, Kidblog, LiveBinders, content
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Presenting
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Students combine textual and visual elements to share their understanding for peers/others; oral or multimedia format, synchronous or asynchronous
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Teacher Tools: TimeToast
Student Tools: Presentation, ABCya: Paint, PBWorks, Community Walk, ScribbleMaps, PicLits, Storybird, readwritethink:Timeline,
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Prototyping
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Students design ideas for 3-D fabrication of objects, sculptures and environments in physical or electronic form
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: DrawIsland, Draw to, Wixie, ABCya: Paint
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Quiz/Test
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Students demonstrate their knowledge within the context of a testing environment, such as responding to questions on a test or quiz
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Teacher Tools: Poll Daddy, SurveyMonkey
Student Tools: Edmodo, Socrative
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Read Text
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Students extract information from textbooks, historical documents, census data, or other written materials, in either print or digital form
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: content
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Reading For Fluency (choral, paired, repeated, reader’s theater, recitation)
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Students read aloud (as an entire group in unison, together with a fluent reader, aloud with a fluent readerthen alone, with an audience present using a script, or in public)
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: content, VoiceThread, Voki
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Recognize a Pattern
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Students examine a pattern presented to them and attempt to understand the pattern better
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Teacher Tools: Kahoot!
Student Tools: ABCYA 100s Chart, ABCYA Math Tiles, Socrative, ABCYA Paint, Wixie, Bubbl.us, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word
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Researching
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Students gather, explore, analyze and synthesize information from print and/or digital resources that contain background information on course content
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Curation, Storage, Productivity, Collaboration, content, research
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Retelling
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Individually or in groups, students reflect upon and retell what they remember about a story, text, artifacts, or concepts
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Teacher Tools: Prezi. PowToon,
Student Tools: Classtools Timeline, ABCya Animation, Wixie, Voki, Kidblog, Edmodo, Make Belief Comix, VoiceThread, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Revising/ Editing
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Students improve their writing and other products by adding details, rearranging information, deleting information, replacing information, and correcting mechanics, grammar and spelling
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Kidblog, Edmodo, VoiceThread, Microsoft Word
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Semantic Feature Analysis
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Students use a grid to explore the similarities and differences among events, people, objects or ideas
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Padlet, Classtools Diagrams, VoiceThread, Microsoft Excel
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Solve a Puzzle
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Students carry out a strategy or technique within the context of solving an engaging puzzle
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Bubblus, ABCya Crossword Puzzle Maker, Classtools Dustbin Game, ABCya Math Tiles
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Storyboarding/ Sequencing
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Students organize ideas by outlining a series of images, actions, and text/voice
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Teacher Tools: Timetoast
Student Tools: Bubblus, Classtools Diagrams, Classtools Timeline, readwritethink timeline, Make Beliefs Comix, VoiceThread, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Storytelling
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Students tell stories or narratives often by improvisation or embellishment
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Teacher Tools: PowToon
Student Tools: ABCya Animation, Wixie, Voki, Make Beliefs Comix, Storybird, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Summarizing
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Students summarize or paraphrase the major points of a text or multimedia presentation
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Bubblus, Classtools Diagrams, Kigblog, PBWorks, Wordsift, Wordle, ABCya Wordclouds, Voki, VoiceThread, Classtools Animation, ABCya Animation, SMS Fake tweet, Microsoft Word
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Take Notes
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Students record essential ideas about what they are learning from text, lecture, live or recorded games, videos, presentations, or group work
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Kidblog, Padlet, PBWorks, Microsoft Word
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Teach
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The student develops and delivers a lesson on a particular concept, strategy, or problem; sharing their understanding and relevant examples
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Voki, Edmodo, Padlet, PBWorks, VoiceThread, LiveBinders, ScribbleMaps, Community Walk, Classtools: Brainy Box, readwritethink:Cube Creator, Wixie, content, research
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Think Aloud
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Students say out loud what they are thinking while reading
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Audacity, VoiceThread
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Think-Pair-Share
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Students talk about the content they are reading by thinking about a question or prompt, pairing up with a student to discuss and sharing their thinking with rest of class
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: Edmodo, VoiceThread, PBWorks, Padlet, Bubbl us
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View a Presentation/ Demonstration
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Students gain information from teachers, guest speakers, and peers; moving images/objects (video, animations); synchronous/asynchronous; in-person or multimedia
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Teacher Tools: Piktochart Education, Prezi, UDL Book Builder,
Student Tools: Windows Live Move Maker, Microsoft PowerPoint, Classtools: Brainy Box, readwritethink:Cube Creator, VoiceThread, Voki, Wixie, PBWorks, content, ActivInspire, Mimio Studio
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View images
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Students observe/examine static or animated, print or digital media from teachers, guests and peers; synchronous and asynchronous
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Teacher Tools: Piktochart Education, Prezi, UDL Book Builder, Pinterest
Student Tools: Make Beliefs Comix, readwritethink:Cube Creator, Classtools: Brainy Box, readwritethink:Trading Card Creator, VoiceThread, Wixie, Edmodo, Padlet, PBWorks, PicLits, Storybird, content
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Visualize
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Students generate images and visual imagery while reading or listening to content and also to recall what they remember
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Teacher Tools:
Student Tools: ABCya: Make an Animation, ABCya: Paint, DrawIsland, Draw to, Wixie
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