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AHI Curriculum Units | Assessing the Unit | Resources
Resources
If teachers are interested in the The American History Idol (AHI) Curriculum Unit, below are additional resources that can support implementation:
Scientifically-based Teaching and Learning Strategies
This section provides short articles describing strategies and gives examples of how they can be used.
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Activating Prior Knowledge
Critical Issue: Building on Prior Knowledge and Meaningful Student Contexts/Cultures
This site provides an overview, goals, and action plans for teachers on how to help students build on prior knowledge within contexts.
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/
students/learning/lr100.htm
Increasing Comprehension by Activating Prior Knowledge [ERIC Digest]
This site contains lesson plans and examples of activating prior knowledge in reading for young students.
www.ericdigests.org/pre-9219/prior.htm
Teaching Strategies: Activating Prior Knowledge
This site offers teaching strategies on how to activate prior knowledge in ESOL students (English for Speakers of Other Languages).
www.tki.org.nz/r/esol/esolonline/
classroom/teach_strats/prior_e.php
Paraphrasing
Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words
This site explains what paraphrasing is with examples of effective paraphrasing.
owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/
research/r_paraphr.html
Writing-Plagiarism Advice for Lessons
This website has suggestions for teachers on how to teach students to avoid plagiarism.
henson.austin.apple.com/edres/
ellesson/elem-writplagerism.shtml
Using Graphic Organizers
Why use graphic organizers?
This site explains what graphic organizers are and what the benefits of using graphic organizers are for K-2 students.
www.readinga-z.com/more/graphic_org.html
AERO—Ways To Gather Information
This site contains tools for teachers, graphic designers and other professionals on how to use AERO to gather information on the Web.
www.graphic.org/aero.html
Graphic Organizers
This site explains what a graphic organizer is by using visual aids such as flow charts, figures, and graphs.
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/
students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
Graphic Organizers
This site contains diagrams in various shapes to explain what graphic organizers are. There are blank diagrams for teachers to print out and use as supplementary tools.
www.enchantedlearning.com/
graphicorganizers/mainsupportingideas/
Finding the Main Idea and Supporting Details
Main Idea/Supporting Ideas
This site has diagram templates and printouts that are useful in teaching students how to write a basic paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion.
www.enchantedlearning.com/
graphicorganizers/mainsupportingideas/
Finding the Main Idea
This site explains to students what a main idea is and where to locate the main idea within a paragraph in an easy-to-understand way.
vclass.mtsac.edu:920/readroom/Mainidea.htm
How Can I Locate the Main Idea?
This site explains what a main idea is and has a few sample passages for students to practice finding the main ideas.
www.landmarkoutreach.org/FindingtheMainIdea.htm
Finding Main Ideas in Paragraphs
This site provides rules for finding the topic sentence in paragraphs.
english.glendale.cc.ca.us/topic.html
Thinking Aloud
Reading Assessment: An example of a Think-Aloud
This site provides sample lesson plans on how to do a reading assessment that includes the skill of thinking aloud, and on eliciting prior knowledge from students.
wilearns.state.wi.us/apps/default.asp?cid=320
Think-Aloud 1: During Reading Strategy
This site provides an overview of the think-aloud strategy.
www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/
strategies/during/thinkaloud1.htm
Think Aloud Strategy
This site tells why and how to use the think-aloud strategy in a classroom setting.
web.grps.k12.mi.us/academics/5e/thinkaloud.html
Writing a Paragraph
Paragraph Writing
This site shows what a paragraph is, explains how to write a paragraph, and illustrates different types of paragraphs.
www.english-zone.com/index.php?ID=71
Paragraphs
This site thoroughly explains the elements of paragraphing: parts of a paragraph, how to write a paragraph, and kinds of paragraphs.
www2.actden.com/Writ_Den/tips/paragrap/index.htm
Student Pairing/Collaborative Learning
Students Learning Together: Collaborative or Cooperative Learning
This site lists many Q&A regarding collaborative learning and emphasizes the power of group learning.
www.cte.uiuc.edu/Did/Resources/
Illini%20Instructor/collaborative.htm
Cooperative Learning
This site explains cooperative learning and provides sample class activities.
edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm
Think-Pair-Share
This site explains a short collaborative learning structure of think-pair-share.
www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/CL1/CL/doingcl/thinkps.htm
Using a Rubric
Using Rubrics
This site has useful links on how to make, apply, and set rules by means of a rubric in classroom settings.
members.tripod.com/~ozpk/01rubric
Understanding Rubrics
This article explains the purpose of using rubrics and how to use them properly for a report.
learnweb.harvard.edu/ALPS/thinking/docs/rubricar.htm
Creating Grading Rubrics for Writing Assignments
This article goes through all the steps of setting up grading rubrics for writing assignments.
writing.umn.edu/tww/
responding_grading/creating_rubrics.htm
Biography Web sites
Included here are links to web sites that contain information about different historical figures. These can be useful if teachers want to use The American History Idol (AHI) Curriculum Unit with other historical figures, as well.
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Biography
This site contains a wide variety of biographies, plus supplementary teaching tools.
www.biography.com
Almanac: Biography
This site does biography by category. There are six categories: Art, Business, Politics, Technology, Culture and Sports.
www.infoplease.com/people.html
Nobel Prize Winners
This site lists all the Nobel Prize winners and their bibliographies.
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/2006.html
World of Scientific Biography
This site is an online biography of science.
scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography
Presidents of Untied States
This site has a complete list of all the presidents of United States.
www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
The Internet Public Library
The site has a n annotated collection of high-quality Internet resources in various fields.
www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/refl15.00.00
Guidelines for Using Draft:Builder
Here are a set of guidelines for using Draft:Builder software, within The American History Idol (AHI) Curriculum Unit or for any other curriculum area.
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Draft:Builder SOLO Edition Documentation
This is the official Draft: Builder troubleshooting Web site and includes teacher's manual and user's guide.
www.donjohnston.com/support/dbsemanuals.html
Don Johnston Product Manuals: SOLO Documentation
This is the official SOLO Help Desk Online that includes manuals for using SOLO software.
www.donjohnston.com/support/solomanuals.html
Draft: Builder
This article talks about the benefits of using Draft: Builder and goes over the steps for set- up and launch on the system.
www.spectronicsinoz.com/library.asp?article=13648
DraftBuilder: SOLO Edition*
Teacher Features: Creating an Outline Template in Draft:Builder
This site is an online user's guide that walks through the process of using Draft:Builder.
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/
hiat/tech_quick_guides/QuickGuideDBSOLOteacher.pdf
Draft: Builder User's guide
This site is a quick-and-easy reference to getting started with Draft: Builder.
www.fcps.edu/ss/its/howtos/
draftbuilder/Draftbuilder_Booklet.pdf
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