Teaching Strategies
Pause Points Graphic Organizer
Posted by SM Bruner on
One of the most popular strategies for using BrainPOP in the classroom is through using pause points, briefly pausing the movie to clarify student understanding. Turn this classic strategy into an art...
Using Games in Blended Lesson Plans
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Want to make your mark as a blended educator, using web-based games to enhance students' learning? Look no further than the fast-evolving world of using Digital Games Based Learning in the classroom. ...
Using the TSN-2 Print Report Option
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At the end of the TSN-2 game, students will be able to use the print feature to create a report of their work. Using the TSN-2 Print Report Option allows students either to print and submit these open...
Reach for the Sun Teaching Strategies
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Use these teaching strategies to enhance your students' experience of the Reach for the Sun game: How realistic is the game's representation of being a plant? Encourage students to explore this questi...
Court Quest Teaching Strategies
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Allotting Time for Court Quest:
Plan on approximately 15-30 minutes of play time, depending on the learner’s reading speed and selection of timed or casual modes.
Court Quest as an Individual or Gro...
Chain Game Hands-On Learning Strategies
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Chain Game teaches users how to replace a sound in one word to make another word, and continue to do this until they have a sequence or chain of five words. For example, a user must change one letter ...
Lord of the Flies Game Play Strategies
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In the first part of the game, you are supposed to match objects, thoughts and sentences with the correct boy. Match an object by pointing at it with the mouse, drag it with the mouse button pressed d...
Control of the Cell Cycle Tips and Tricks
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As "Cell Division Supervisor" inside the cell nucleus, the learner’s job in the Control of the Cell Cycle Game is to control cell division to make sure each stage of the cell cycle occurs in the corre...
Treefrog Treasure: Preparing for Play
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Make sure you introduce the concepts of both fractions and number lines to your students prior to the Treefrog Treasure game, in order to reduce their learning curve....
Making New Words Lesson Plan: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
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In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-8, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the function of root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Students will create new words by adding prefixes...
