Creatively Opening A Lesson
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Purpose For Creatively Opening A Lesson Question
What do you want your students to learn? What will the lesson outcome be? What will the students need to produce at the conclusion of the lesson? What evidence will be shown at the conclusion of the lesson? How will lesson connect with students?
Website to Start a Lesson
Hooks
Great Ways to Hook Your Students
Use hooks. Examples: story, show and tell, media(video/pictures), props, survey, challenge questions, prediction, song, gallery walk (writing what they know about a subject), experiment, skit, newspaper article, ask intriguing or interesting questions, etc. The list go s on.
More Ways to Hook
Use a picture book to start a lesson. Play a game, use manipulatives or create a model, use a graphic organizer or tell a joke, or even do a scavenger hunt.
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Creatively opening a lesson starts the entire lesson. Without hooking students at the beginning, students will not make a connection. Making that connection is like the start of a trip, without the right start they will not get to where they need to be going!