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  #1 Karyn West on 11 Jun 08

   

  One of the big aims of PBL is getting the students to look beyond the teacher and seek out their peers as providers of information. At the moment we ask the students to find information and then present this information in an interesting way back to their peers. The only issue is how can we see how much these peers have listened and absorbed? So I am looking for ways to test content knowledge (regardless of the content presented) in a quick, interactive or interesting way. What do you do in your classrooms? Or what would you like to do?
  
  For example: play bingo with content terms - the catch is that rather than reading out the term, a definition is read out. If students have been listening to the presentation, they will be able to match the definition with the term on their bingo board and cross it off - first person to make a line (and be able to correctly match the definitions to the term) wins!

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">One of the big aims of PBL is getting the students to look beyond the teacher and seek out their peers as providers of information. At the moment we ask the students to find information and then present this information in an interesting way back to their peers. The only issue is how can we see how much these peers have listened and absorbed? So I am looking for ways to test content knowledge (regardless of the content presented) in a quick, interactive or interesting way. What do you do in your classrooms? Or what would you like to do? <br /> <br /> For example: play bingo with content terms - the catch is that rather than reading out the term, a definition is read out. If students have been listening to the presentation, they will be able to match the definition with the term on their bingo board and cross it off - first person to make a line (and be able to correctly match the definitions to the term) wins!</div>

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  #2 Susan Rardin on 16 Nov 08

   

  Karyn West wrote:
  > One of the big aims of PBL is getting the students to look beyond the teacher and seek out their peers as providers of information. At the moment we ask the students to find information and then present this information in an interesting way back to their peers. The only issue is how can we see how much these peers have listened and absorbed? So I am looking for ways to test content knowledge (regardless of the content presented) in a quick, interactive or interesting way. What do you do in your classrooms? Or what would you like to do?
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  > For example: play bingo with content terms - the catch is that rather than reading out the term, a definition is read out. If students have been listening to the presentation, they will be able to match the definition with the term on their bingo board and cross it off - first person to make a line (and be able to correctly match the definitions to the term) wins!

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Karyn West wrote: <br /> > One of the big aims of PBL is getting the students to look beyond the teacher and seek out their peers as providers of information. At the moment we ask the students to find information and then present this information in an interesting way back to their peers. The only issue is how can we see how much these peers have listened and absorbed? So I am looking for ways to test content knowledge (regardless of the content presented) in a quick, interactive or interesting way. What do you do in your classrooms? Or what would you like to do? <br /> > <br /> > For example: play bingo with content terms - the catch is that rather than reading out the term, a definition is read out. If students have been listening to the presentation, they will be able to match the definition with the term on their bingo board and cross it off - first person to make a line (and be able to correctly match the definitions to the term) wins!</div>

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  #3 Susan Rardin on 16 Nov 08

   

  Susan Rardin wrote:
  I love your idea of the content Bingo game. I am going to try making that game for my 2nd grade students who come to the Cliffwood Library weekly. I am teaching them terms that are essential for becoming independent library users. They had to come up with definitions for the terms themselves. The students became very motivated working in groups to
  to write their definitions saving them to a document matching the flashcards I had created. I called the lesson inside out learning (to myself) because I was not lecturing. In fact, some kids would ask me a question and when I started to answer, I would realize and go whoops, you can figure it out. I had read a book by a school librarian, Toni Buzzeo called Mrs. Skoropski Won't Tell Us Anything!
  
  
  

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Susan Rardin wrote: <br /> I love your idea of the content Bingo game. I am going to try making that game for my 2nd grade students who come to the Cliffwood Library weekly. I am teaching them terms that are essential for becoming independent library users. They had to come up with definitions for the terms themselves. The students became very motivated working in groups to <br /> to write their definitions saving them to a document matching the flashcards I had created. I called the lesson inside out learning (to myself) because I was not lecturing. In fact, some kids would ask me a question and when I started to answer, I would realize and go whoops, you can figure it out. I had read a book by a school librarian, Toni Buzzeo called Mrs. Skoropski Won't Tell Us Anything! <br /> <br /> <br /> </div>

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