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GANAG Overview: Making Connections to High-Yield Strategies
- Assessment
- (Ch. 2) Identifying Similarities and Differences
- (Ch. 3) Summarizing and Note Taking
- (Ch. 4) Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
- (Ch. 5) Homework and Practice
- (Ch. 6) Nonlinguistic Representations
- (Ch. 7) Cooperative Learning
- (Ch. 8) Setting the Objective
- (Ch. 9) Generating and Testing Hypotheses
- (Ch. 10) Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
- Objective Score Sheets
- Providing Feedback
- Sample GANAG K-12 Lessons
- Technology Tutorials
Apps
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Students and teachers ’round the globe are discovering the TourWrist app for inquiry-based, kinesthetic learning experiences in:
- Geography – places around the world / mapping / world landmarks
- Creative Writing – writing descriptions of places / story starters / narrative stories
- Language – talking about travel
- Social Studies – history / culture / world history
- Art – drawing places (change your perspective)
- Problem Solving – trip planning
- Science – ‘teleporting in’ to Mars
Find other uses of Sphere/TourWrist in Education
Web Resources
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Putting the Pieces Together: Non-linguistic Representation
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Photos
flickr
Morguefile- Great quality photos
OpenPhoto
Pic-Lits- Inspired Picture Writing
Public-Domain-Photo -
Drawing Pictures and Pictographs
MS Paint Handout
Clipart Galleries- Public-Domain-Photo
- Microsoft Images
- Google Images – Select Clipart on the left side, you can also choose a specific color
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Kinesthetic Activities
Acting out Readers' TheatersStudent use of the Smart Board – Gross Motor Movement
Web-based Programs
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Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.
Bubbl.us - Brainstorming pure and simple. A free, simple, and easy to use web-based program that helps people organize your thoughts and ideas.
Mapul creates unique looking mind maps. It's free for maps that contain no more than two main categories.
Mind42 provides collaborative workspace for people to manage your ideas. You can add images and more to your maps.
Mindmeister is for individuals or groups that what to organize ideas. They also have apps for Smart phones and iPads.
Gliffy online diagram software lets you easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams and more.
Seeing Reason Tool