An oral presentation intended to convey information.
What is a Lecture?
100
Scenarios that teachers present to students to engage them in problem solving.
What is a case study?
100
Organized arguments around a topic.
What is a debate?
100
It is an important part of communicating and demonstrating scientific understandings. Examples include journaling, essays, lab reports and blogs.
What is writing?
200
An expert person who is asked to speak at in a class.
What is a guest lecturer?
200
The action or process of talking about something, typically in order to reach a decision or to exchange ideas.
What is a discussion?
200
A trip made by students to study something at first hand.
What are field trips?
200
These techniques help the teacher identify prior conceptions, understandings, and possible misconceptions.
What are Questions?
300
A picture says more than a thousand words.
What is a diagram, graphs and pictures?
300
These are printed monthly or quarterly, they contain contain more up to date information than do books.
What are magazines and periodicals?
300
Any agency, company, facility, or service in the community that provides assistance in educational resources.
What are community resources?
300
The amount of time teachers wait to call on specific students after asking a question and to the amount of time that elapses between a student's answer and the teacher response.
What is wait time?
400
Showing something to someone
What is a demonstration?
400
These have illustrations and high accessibility that tend to capture the attention of students in a way that textbooks do not.
What are children's literature?
400
Jeopardy, freeze tag, Quick Frozen Critters are examples.
What are games?
400
"Describe what happens when..." is considered this level of question.
What is a medium level question?
500
An occurrence that happens suddenly causing puzzlement or astonishment to the students.
What is a discrepant event?
500
These are visual tools that make abstract ideas more concrete by organizing them or illustrating relationships among them.
What are graphic organizers?
500
This allows learners to put themselves in the roles of experts such as scientists, doctors, local politicians, or teacher.
What is role playing?
500
"Apply what you learned to..." is considered this level of question.