231+-+Classroom+strategies+to+engage+students+in+everyday+learning

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 * Materials for Session**
 * Additional Resources**


 * Engagement strategies from session**

Square Dancing Stars Cup Game

__A. World War I Famous Persons__ Write description and name of person on an index card (Advanced class, just put name. Students ask critical questions about description) Tape card to your back Walk around room and ask students yes/no questions to find out who you are Once you’ve discovered who you are, group yourself as either Allies and Central Powers
 * Artifacts from Session**

Create Human (Living) Timeline of events in war (can do before and after unit)

1920s Events Take both good and bad events of 1920s and mirror to today. Can use online tool where students can post sticky notes on screen

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D. Rotating Problem Solving
 * Place students in groups (size of your choice, I used 4)
 * Provide students with different colors to write with
 * Create the same number of multistep problems as you have group members
 * Put one problem on the top of each page
 * Give each group member one problem
 * Each person does the first step of the problem and initials their work
 * When everyone is ready, they rotate papers
 * The second person checks the first persons work, corrects any errors, and then adds the next step and initials their work
 * Continue rotating papers, checking previous work and adding the next step, until all problems have been fully solved
 * Final person writes an explanation of the work and how they know the answer is correct (if there is a way to check)

E. Radical problems: 4 sets of 10 problems. Each set is a type of radical problems. So all students will experience each type of radical problem.

Student must choose 5 problems in set #1 and get them correct to move on to set two and so on.

Students have choice in each set.

F. HOT SEAT- five seats in the classroom would be designated "hot seats" or something catchy. Each weeks studetns would be reassigned seats using a random number generator (like a calculator). Each of teh five seats woud have a special responsibility that week. For example, seats 1 and 2 might write a class summary on Blackboard each day. Seats 3 and 4 might be responsible for posting a question to the teacher to answer in class the next day. Ideally this would give sepcail responsibilities to 5 students each week on a rotating basis.

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