Learning Strategy & Tool "Fair"
Overview
To promote acceptance of learning diversity, students explore learning tools and strategies to see how they work and why they and others might use them. Using a science fair model, tools are presented either as self-exploratory or with students explaining their purposes.
Example: Use This Strategy in the Classroom
Watch how elementary students participate in an instrument petting zoo and try playing different musical instruments. As a model of exploration, students have the opportunity to discover their own interests and challenges through experimentation, which could be applied to learning strategies and tools.
Design It into Your Product
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Cooperative Learning Strategies
Students practice making and finding meaning in their reading through a book club model.
When peers are able to work together to plan, draft, edit, and revise their compositions, their writing quality improves.
As students walk through stations working in small groups, the social and physical nature of the learning supports deeper understanding.
When students explain to others, they deepen their understanding and gain confidence in their learning.
Bringing students' every day literacy practice of texting into the classroom provides regular, low-stakes practice communicating with authentic audiences.
Students develop literacy skills by listening to and speaking with others in informal ways.
Writing conferences allow students to share, reflect on, and receive feedback about their writing, which promotes Motivation for revising.
