Transcript Breakout Group 2 (PPT Format)

TILE Community Potluck
Theme: Customizing Content
June 19, 2003
Target Learner Audience
Grade or Post Secondary Level:
Grade 8
Geographic Location:
Alberta, northern, remote rural
Customization of Learning Activity
The following are our group’s three examples
of content adapted to a range of learning
activity frameworks.
Content Area 1:Grade 8 cross-curricular
Learning Activity Template 1: Inquiry
Resource: Atlas of mountainous regions.
Problem: Where is the best place to build and operate a
Canadian, all-season recreation resort in a mountainous
region?
Collaborative criteria development.
Rubric develop over time.
- Panel of experts (business community) participates in
evaluation.
Content Area 1: Cross-curricular
Learning Activity Template 2: Atlas game
- Latitude and longitude
- Elevation
- Locate regions
- Precipitation
- Distances between communities
- Largest/smallest communities
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Create a set of questions based on the Atlas (individual activity)
Questions shared with team.
Questions then used to stump other team for points.
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Jeopardy approach
Hot Potato
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Possible Curriculum: math, IT, geography…
Content Area 1:
Learning Activity Template 3:
Customization of Content
The following are our group’s three examples
of learning activity frameworks adapted
using new content.
Content Area 2: Parts of Speech
Learning Activity Template 1: Roleplay/sim
- Original idea: role play (pick a part of speech from a box, arrange a
sentence, and explain your role). Wear a card, be the part of speech (on
back on card, safe prepared responses)
- Concern: may not work with target audience.
- Different variations of activities – different level of complexity
- Resource (def’n of parts of speech) handed out
- Target audience is ESL – could be a great deal of anxiety
- Game format, element of nonsense (important for audience to feel
safe)
Content Area 2:
Learning Activity Template 2: Inquiry
Problem: ???
- Give each part of speech a value (i.e. verbs = $5, nouns =
$1)
- Activity can involve a budget (i.e. advertising manager has
a word budget of $200 to sell Nike shoes, create the most
effective advertising slogan/paragraph.)
- Objective: Student must tally up the total cost of their
paragraph.
- Resource is given so they can identify the parts and values
of the words they have used.
Content Area 2:
Learning Activity Template 3:
Customization of Content
The following are our group’s three examples
of learning activities adapted for the
following context:
(Choose 1):
• Individual learning context
• Large class size context
Customization for Context:
Learning Activity Template 1:
Customization for Context:
Learning Activity Template 2:
Customization for Context:
Learning Activity Template 2:
Summary Comments