Applying
Can your students use strategies, concepts, principles and theories when they encounter a new situation?
Consider your role as the teacher.... Think about the student role...
  • Show
  • Facilitate
  • Observe
  • Evaluate
  • Organize
  • Question

  • Solve problems
  • Demonstrate use of knowledge
  • Calculate
  • Compile
  • Complete
  • Illustrate
  • Construct
  • Serve as an active recipient
Skills to be demonstrated by students include...
  • using information effectively
  • using methods, concepts, theories in new situations
  • solving problems using acquired skills or knowledge
Key words to consider as you develop objectives and questions...
  • act
  • adapt
  • administer
  • apply
  • articulate
  • assess
  • build
  • calculate
  • carry out
  • change
  • chart
  • choose
  • collect
  • compute
  • construct
  • contribute
  • control
  • demonstrate
  • determine
  • develop
  • discover
  • dramatize
  • draw
  • execute
  • exhibit
  • experiment with
  • establish
  • extend
  • identify
  • illustrate
  • implement
  • include
  • inform
  • instruct
  • interview
  • interpret
  • interview
  • make
  • make use of
  • manipulate
  • model
  • operate
  • organize
  • paint
  • participate
  • plan
  • practice
  • predict
  • prepare
  • preserve
  • produce
  • project
  • provide
  • relate
  • report
  • select
  • sequence
  • show
  • solve
  • teach
  • transfer
  • translate
  • use
  • utilize
Sample Questions
  • How would you use...?
  • What examples can you find to...?
  • How would you solve _____ using what you've learned...?
  • How would you organize _____ to show...?
  • How would you show your understanding of...?
  • What approach would you use to...?
  • How would you apply what you learned to develop...?
  • What other way would you plan to...?
  • What would result if...?
  • Can you make use of the facts to...?
  • What elements would you choose to change...?
  • What facts would you select to show...?
  • What questions would you ask in an interview with...?
  • Continue the story…
  • Do you know of another instance where…?
  • Can you group by characteristics such as…?
  • Which factors would you change if…?
  • What questions would you ask of…?
  • From the information given, can you develop a set of instructions about…?

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Possible Projects/Assignments
  • Construct a model to demonstrate how it will work.
  • Make a diorama to illustrate an important event.
  • Make a scrapbook about the areas of study.
  • Make a papier-mâché map to include relevant information about an event.
  • Take a collection of photographs to demonstrate a particular point.
  • Make up a puzzle game using the ideas from the study area.
  • Make a clay model of an item in the material.
  • Design a market strategy for your product using a known strategy as a model.
  • Dress a doll in national costume.
  • Paint a mural using the same materials.
  • Write a textbook about... for others.
  • Practice a play and perform it for the class.
  • Write a diary entry,
  • Compose and design invitations for a character’s birthday party.
  • Make a topographic map.
  • Write an explanation about this topic for others.

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