What's In My Brain Lessons
Ask students to decide why items are grouped into two different categories. *A Byrdseed favorite!* Based on the Concept Attainment model of instruction.
In a Concept Attainment lesson, we give students examples and non-examples of a concept -- without telling them what that concept is!
Can students spot similes vs metaphors?
Can your students spot the run-on sentences?
Let's look at living vs non-living things.
Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?
Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!
Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?
Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?
Which are trapezoids and which are not?
Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.
Some of these clauses are dependent and some are independent.
We're looking at regular vs irregular polygons.
Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?
Is it an island or an archipelago?
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of capital cities.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Kinetic vs Potential Energy.
Is it a reptile or an amphibian?
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of misnomers
The word "may" can be used for possibility or permission. It's a modal auxiliary verb!
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Arctic vs Antarctic.
We're looking at the past progressive tense and the simple past tense.
Will your students notice progressive tense vs simple tense?
Students infer the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Let's look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Spain vs Germany.
Let's look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Countries vs Smaller Regions.