Nonlinguistic+Representation

[|Scavenger Hunt - Ecosystems.doc] Cell Phone Scavenger Hunt 7th grade science class Non-linguistic Representation / Providing Feedback - students used the woods / land lab behind our school to locate/identify various terms related to ecosystems. - students photographed each item with the cell phones in groups of 3 to 4 - instant feedback was provided to students when students asked to verify an item in their phone or in their environment - great culminating activity that students enjoyed; being asked to use cell phone at school was well received by class - to enhance this lesson, have students upload pictures to a 1 page document as thumnail pictures and have students write a brief description of each item - for more information, contact Brian Scott at bscott@worthington.k12.oh.us

Word Cloud Summary of Field Trip Experience 7th Grade Language Arts Non-linguistic Representation / Summarizing

Students were asked to journal about their day at the zoo. This is the procedure we used to create a visual summary of their field trip.

First, they created a list of words and phrases (100 word minimum). Phrases had to be without space between individual words in order to appear together on the final product. Key experiences, people, activities, etc. were written more than once in order to appear larger in the graphic. Greater size indicates greater signficance; these words act as the main ideas. Smaller words act like details in an outline. Once the list of words (in paragraph form) was created, students pasted them into a text box at the [|www.tagxedo.com] site. Studentswere now able to chose the shape and color of their word cloud. The orientation of the words, font style, and number of words appearing in the word cloud were all choices the student could make. The final product was saved as a jpeg document in the student's own document folder. lflynn Worthingway MS

I do what is called a Quick Draw notebook. It is a 3 ring binder with dividers for each subject area. Vocabulary words that I want the kids to know, they create a "working definition" that they understand (after discussion and being introduced to the word through activities, books, etc.) then they create a "quick draw" We refer back to these throughout the unit, as well as made connections through the subject areas. We use these words also in smartboard games, activities. gpiero Wilson Hill



 As I prepared to teach my 9th grade Global History students about the German Blitzkrieg that opened World War Two, I wanted to create a nonlinguistic representation that would illustrate for my students how this new fighting system differed from what anyone in Europe had seen before. Part of Blitzkrieg's impact was how it could strike multiple target areas at once, with its lead elements moving on to the second while its rear elements were arriving at the first. A traditional PowerPoint presentation makes this hard to represent visually, since you can only view one slide at once. Prezi, however, is more like a tabletop with images on it, and a camera that can "pan and zoom" the images on that tabletop. You can see how I showed the students how "Tactical Bombers" had moved onto the "Next Target Area" while Armor (Tanks) were attacking the initial target area. John Jordan Worthington Kilbourne High School

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Debbie & Dale's Awesome Nonlinguistic Representation 1 slide powerpoint!