SearchWeekly Tribes 2019-2020: Everyday Circles
This is a project that Tribes Learning Communities, Peace Learning Center, and HEART came together to create…and now it is ready for you to put to use in your classroom! You can check it out here: www.tribes.com/everydaycircles/ Hit the ‘buy the cards’ button and you can see an explanatory video. For 27 cents a day, […]
Literature: Characterization
Thank you for this TLE, Beth Spaulding – Frankford Middle School Plano ISD, Plano TX 1. PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION: A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy Energizer: “Pen Pals” Students will draw the name of a character from the story we are reading out of a cup, this will be their new identity for the activity. […]
Jigsaw – Influential Women in Canadian History
1. PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION: A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy Energizer: Bubble Gum – Page 382. The bubblegum energizer has students race to open a pack of bubblegum with mittens on. It ties into the topic of Influential Women in that all the women we would be learning about in the Jigsaw had to […]
After School Program Inclusion Project – ‘let’s teach and learn’
This is from Mossyrock Jump Start in Washington state. TITLE: Let’s teach and learn GRADE: 3 – 8 MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: post it notes, sticker dots for voting, calendar for planning; 30-40 minutes PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy: do the strategy ‘pen pals’ (also known as ‘instant bulletin board’), found […]
Weekly Tribes – Oreos
This is a cool little graphic organizer for I-messages and Appreciations. Make something that looks like an Oreo – two ovals with a rectangle in between. Each shape should be large enough to write a sentence in. I had a stack available to students so they could write one whenever they felt the need… First, […]
Poetry Tower Building
TITLE: Poetry Tower Building GRADE: 4 – 8 MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: LOTS of index cards, various sizes and colors (at least twenty packs…but you can re0use forever!)…some prep time is required, but, again, you can reuse. 40-50 minutes PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy: Can you name a poem you have […]
Character Analysis Extended Nametag
TITLE: Character Analysis Extended Nametag GRADE: 4 – 10 MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: Index Cards (5×7), 30 minutes PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy: Think-Pair-Share: When you meet someone for the first time, do you… notice what they look like listen to what they say tune in to their feelings watch how […]
Geography – common boundaries
TITLE: Geography – common boundaries GRADE: 4 – 9 MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: index cards, atlas/map, 30 minutes PROVIDE FOR INCLUSION – A You Question, Energizer, or Linking Strategy: “Finding all we have in common” (p. 243, p. 272 DG, p. 352 EA) Have students in groups of 4-5. Use the strategy to build inclusion and set […]
Make your own “Important Book”
Submitted by Vicki McKenna TITLE: Make your own Important Book GRADE: K – 5; use peer tutors/buddies; This can be easily adapted for any subject/topic to review key concepts. (Math – number properties; Science – parts of…; Social Studies – geographical features) MATERIALS/TIME REQUIRED: The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard; 50-60 […]
Appreciations
Here is a starter list of creative, and fun ways to appreciate. Please send in your additions! Fantastic: Squirt three times, then wipe and say “Fantastic!” Attitude: One hand on hip, one hand snaps while you say “You go! [girl or boy]” Apple Polisher: Hold apple in hand, then rub on shirt 7-7-3-3: Clap 7x, […]
