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 * OUR 5 BIG GUIDING QUESTIONS**

1. How do we make learning more fun and memorable for students and teachers? 2. How do we assess a deeper content understanding for main idea? 3. How do we teach main idea in the context of problem solving and global learning? 4. How do we strategically incorporate collaboration and communication into each day's lesson? 5. In what ways will we push students to use creativity and innovation to understand the main idea from a variety of sources?

What do we need to know?


 * Activities Teachers Need to Educate Themselves**
 * Read article "Measuring What Matters" to understand process of balancing data with authentic instruction
 * http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=275 (article on 21st century literacy skills)
 * Read article on creativity and making mistakes meaningful /www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/dec08/vol50/num12/Developing-Students'-Creative-Skills-for-21st-Century-Success.aspx
 * Read article on 21st Century Literacies (contains key terms relating to technological media resources) http://www.readingrockets.org/article/20832
 * Staff development is needed to explore available building-level technological resources
 * Lesson Plan for extra bullying activities to coordinate with story "Rikki-tikki-tavi website: http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/4333.html
 * Extension ideas for story "Rikki-tikki-tavi: http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/sleitz/Rikki_Tikki_Tavi.htm
 * Create a shape/image from www.tagxedo.com or www.wordle.net using any article
 * To teach main idea: go to http://www.bayas.org/fmd/files/Teaching-main-idea.pdf. This is a resource for teachers that explains why teaching main idea is so difficult and what skills students need and the order that they need them in order for students to learn how to identify main idea.
 * To teach main idea: go to http://atozteachersuff.com/pages/431.shtml. This website has a 7-12 lesson plan that systematically teaches summary, note-taking, main idea and details.


 * Student Activities**
 * Using Holt's book __Elements of Literature 1st Course,__ students will read pages. 140-159 story "Rikki-tikki-tavi"
 * Also from Holt's book pg. 141 teacher guided use of web link www.thinkcentral.com; Find resources & then code L7-141
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Cobra or http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-cobra.html
 * Research aspects of the cobra and the mongoose and summarize using the media center on the kckps.org website

Resources In order to move toward the integration of twenty first century skills, an environment of collaboration and communication must be created where students feel comfortable and challenged to work together and develop their ideas.

Learning activities integrating communication and collaboration:

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm#activities

Quick Warm-up Activities to Promote Communication and Collaboration [|Warmups.doc] http://www.ehow.com/way_5220537_team-building-activities-middle-school.htmlhttp://www.ehow.com/way_5220537_team-building-activities-middle-school.html

http://middle-school-curriculum.suite101.com/article.cfm/team_building_ideas_for_middle_school_students