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September 14th - **TECH Housekeeping Items**  ﻿ActivDriver   ActivResources   Student Computers   AR/Successmaker Issues   Anything else??? **Walk Around Survey** ** Purpose: ** To activate students' prior knowledge through conversation and movement ** Description: ** Walk Around Survey can be used as an activating or summarizing strategy. In this activity, students are given a topic of study and asked to move around the room for the purpose of conversing with other students. During these conversations, students will share what they know of the topic and discover what others have learned. ** Procedure: ** 1. Assign a topic for the Walk Around Survey. 2. Pass out a survey form to each student in the class. 3. Allow students an allotted amount of time to survey three classmates (informers) on the given topic. 4. When students are completing the survey form, the soliciting student should write the name of the informer on his/her worksheet in the left-hand column. He/she will then record three facts from the student informer on the worksheet in the three empty blocks. He/she will then move on to find a second and third informing student to complete the survey worksheet. 5. Have students return to their seats and complete the Survey Summary. Hint: This activity can be used as either an activating or summarizing strategy. It can be done in the classroom or, even better, outside on a nice day.

**Talking Drawings**

** Purpose: ** To activate and evaluate student knowledge of a topic.

** Description: ** In this activity, students will activate prior knowledge by creating a graphic representation of a topic before the lesson. After engaging in learning about that topic, students will re-evaluate their prior knowledge by drawing a second depiction of their topic. They will then summarize what the different drawing //say// to them about what they learned.

** Procedure: **

1. Ask students to close their eyes and think about topic X. Using the Talking Drawings worksheet, have students draw a picture what they saw while they were thinking about topic X.

2. Teach cognitive portion of your lesson.

3. At the end of the lesson, ask students to elaborate upon their initial drawing by creating a new drawing that incorporates what they learned about topic X during the lesson.

4. Have students share their before and after drawings with a partner. Students should discuss the differences between the two depictions of topic X.

5. Finally, have students respond in writing at the bottom of their Talking Drawings worksheet. What do the two drawings tell them about what they learned during the lesson?

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