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Active Teaching Methodologies

Leaving Certificate Geography

Una NationSlide2

Active Methodologies

Tell me and I will forget

Show me and I will Learn

Involve me and I will understand

Teton LakotaSlide3
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Active Learning Methods

Active teaching/learning methodologies concentrate on the doing in order to enhance the knowing.

Active learning involves students directly and actively in the learning process.

Learning methodologies should reflect the variety of learning styles in a given classroom.Slide6

Successful active learning

Methods Are:

Engaging

Student-centered

Cater for different learning styles

Enhance critical skills

Promote student activitySlide7

Active Learning Methods

Behind

every good teacher is an exhausted class!Slide8

Whoever explains, learnsSlide9

Active Learning Methods

Think, Pair, Share

Brainstorming

Structured discussion

Case studies

Role Play/ Drama

Surveys/Questionnaires

Interviewing

Games

Fieldwork

Visits

Presentations

Demonstrations

Multimedia

Problem solving

DebatingSlide10

Think, Pair, Share

Think to yourself

Turn to a partner and discuss

Share with a groupSlide11

Think, Pair, Share

When used at the beginning of a lecture, a Think-Pair-Share strategy can help students organize prior knowledge and brainstorm questions.

When

used later in the session, the strategy can help students summarize what they're learning, apply it to novel situations, and integrate new information with what they already know.

The

strategy works well with groups of various sizes and can be completed in as little as two or three minutes.Slide12

Think Pair Share in Geography

Predicting Earthquakes

Think to yourself of ways that you can predict where earthquakes are likely to occur?Slide13

Predicting Earthquakes

Share with the person next to you your thoughts on the prediction of earthquakes and write down the answers.

I will then ask some of the groups to share their answers with the rest of the class.Slide14

Answer

Seismographs

used to record vibrations in the earths crust.

Tilt meters

used to measure bulges in land surface which may happen before a major earthquake.

Laser beams

from satellites used to measure the slightest rock movement in areas prone to earthquakes.

History

of earthquakes, patterns in seismic gaps.

Animal

behaviour

may change in advance of an earthquake.

Radon gas

which is emitted from the earths crust is monitored as it increases prior to earthquakes.

Water levels

in well may sometimes rise when the ground is under stress prior to an earthquake.Slide15

Question and Answer

To begin, the instructor asks students to partner with someone near by.

Each

student takes a minute to formulate one question based on the information presented in the lecture or course readings

.

Student A begins by posing her question for student B to answer. Then the roles are reversed, with student B becoming the questioner.

Name the type of rock?

I am a heavy, fine grained rock. I cooled and hardened quickly leaving no time for large crystals to form?Slide16

Visual Literacy

The power of the visual (e.g. photography, graphic design, architecture, animation, painting

etc.)

can be captured and used to motivate the learner and open up a world of imagination that can bring

content knowledge

to life. Slide17

Visual Literacy

Pictures can stimulate writing/discussion. Sample activities include;

What is the first word that comes into your head when you see this picture?

Quick-fire/

brainstorm/list.

‘

Stream of consciousness

’

- jot down any random thoughts that the picture suggests.

Compose

captions for a series of photographs.

Write a dialogue between the characters featured in the picture.Slide18

A

For

30 seconds talk

about the picture without deviation, hesitation or repetition.Slide19
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Summarise the content as an image.

On 11 March 2011 Japan suffered its worst ever earthquake. For two and a half minutes the ground surface in parts of Japan shook. Earthquake proof skyscrapers cracked and people were buried alive in their collapsed homes. Big fires broke out as gas and oil pipes were fractured by the tremors. A tsunami followed the quake destroying homes, villages and destroying coastland. In all more than 27,000 people died.Slide21

Japan TsunamiSlide22

Poetry

My Fault

So when we pull away

The world falls

down its Normal

When we collide together

You lift me

up its reverse

When I thrust you too much

You push me across to the other side

When

you pass me by

It tears me

apart

It’s my Fault.

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Word Bank

Key

words relating to a topic/spellings/definitions

are

written on strips of card, sorted alphabetically and displayed on a large poster.

New

words are added after every lesson having been identified and defined in context of the lesson.

Constant

revisiting of lists reminds students of their extent and purpose. Draw attention to lists when completing written work also

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Word/Definition Cards

Design two separate bundles of cards, one for words/terms and the second containing the definition

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Students required to match them up. ICT, this exercise could form a cut and paste exercise on computer.

Alternatively

, distribute blank cards to students and assign the task of designing a definition card with an accompanying picture if appropriate.Slide25

Tweet

Summarize

a lesson into a

160

character tweetSlide26

Facebook

Ask your student to create a Facebook page instead of the traditional book report

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Students

create their own Facebook pages based on research that you assign

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This could be a specific person or even non-human kinds of things such as a country, region, event or place.Slide27

Make a model

Using play dough make a model of a simple, asymmetrical, Over fold and Over thrust foldSlide28

An

a

ctive Cone Shaped VolcanoSlide29

Overthrust FoldSlide30

Asymetricial

FoldSlide31

Rock ChickSlide32

Fieldwork

Tasks involving the gathering and interpretation of information can develop skills of independent learning and provide rich opportunities for active learning both within and beyond the classroom. Slide33

Milling to Music

Used as revision technique. Ask students to stand

at their desk and

move around the

room when the music starts.

Play an appropriate song and when you stop the

music the

students have to ask each other questions and answers that you prescribe

.

Short exercise 3 times maximumSlide34

Milling to Music

1. A rock formed from the remains of sea creatures. This is Ireland’s most common rock.

2. This rock is made up of three minerals mica, feldspar and quartz. This rock has large crystals.

3. Great heat or pressure change change the characteristics of existing rocks to form what rock group

?

4. Name one way that human interact with the rock cycle and make use of rocks.

5. Name the rock that was formed when limestone or chalk was changed by intense heat or pressure.Slide35

Answers

Question 1 – Limestone

Question 2 – Granite

Question 3 – Metamorphic

Question 4 – Quarrying and Geothermal energy

Question 5- MarbleSlide36

Brainstorm

B

rainstorming

is an active learning strategy in which students are asked to recall what they know about a subject by generating terms and ideas related to it. In brainstorming, however, students are encouraged to stretch what they know by forming creative connections between prior knowledge and new possibilities.Slide37

Professional Development Service for teachers

Students at

Kylemore

College in a sequencing activity

http://

www.mediaconcepts.ie

/

jcsp

/page62.

htmlSlide38

Website _NCCA http://www.curriculumonline.ie

/en/Post-

Primary_Curriculum

/

Senior_Cycle_Curriculum

/

Leaving_Certificate_Established

/Geography/

Geography_Guidelines

/Resources/

WEBSITES

The following websites are recommended as being of high quality and appropriate to the syllabus. Although they are presented here as being linked to one section of the syllabus, many are relevant to other areas.

The Geography Support Service will develop a subject website and this will provide links to all the web addresses given here. It will be kept updated and extended as other sites are recommended or developed.

GENERAL GEOGRAPHY PORTALS

Portals provide links to multiple sites, usually providing a commentary and indicating the quality of each site.

Scoilnet

www.scoilnet.ie


This website has been created by the NCTE as the reference point for Irish educational matters.

BBC

Webguide

www.bbc.co.uk

\

webguide


A comprehensive entry to selected sites, not all relevant to the Leaving Cert, but all of very high quality. Divided into course related sections ­ key stage 3&4 and A Level are the relevant ones.

About

www.geography.about.com


An excellent introduction to world geography broken into categories. Main emphasis on American case studies.

Internet Geography


http://

www.geography.learnontheintern

et.co.uk


Excellent site with British bias ­ includes teacher lesson plans.

The Internet Geographer

www.internetgeographer.com


Hundreds of links to other sites ­ but a heavy emphasis on U.K. sites.Slide39

“

Lessons should be hard to

forget

”

StudentSlide40

Thank You