Learning Links
Apprenticeship / Market Analysis / Analogies / Synergy / Creativity / Experiments / Hypothesis / Teaching / Strategic Planning / Risktaking / Adventure / Theories / Creative Arts
Demonstrators should be read from bottom to top, but need not be demonstrated sequentially.
Elementary Demonstrators
• Relate new information to specific knowledge, skills, or experiences.
• Develop generalizations based on data regarding relationships among objects, ideas, and actions.
• Describe relationships among objects, ideas, and actions.
Middle School Demonstrators
• Discover relationships among existing knowledge and new ideas, objects, and actions.
• Analyze the connections between new and existing knowledge in specific situations.
High School Demonstrators
• Apply new knowledge from multiple sources to expand understanding of existing knowledge.
• Examine and revise existing knowledge, skills, and experiences based upon connections with new knowledge, skills, or experiences.
Sample Teaching/Assessment Strategies
Community-Based Instruction: Field Studies, Mentoring/Apprenticeship/Co-op, Networking, Service Learning, Shadowing / Continuous Progress Assessment: Portfolio Development / Graphic Organizers: Advance Organizers / Problem Solving: Case Studies, Future Problem Solving, Oral History, Research, Inquiry, Brainstorming / Technology/Tools: Manipulatives, Computers, Distance Learning, Telecommunications / Whole Language Approach / Writing Process
These sample strategies offer ideas and are not meant to limit teacher resourcefulness. More strategies are found in the resource section.
Ideas for Incorporating Community Resources
• Invite a doctor to discuss the need to keep current with new developments in medicine in order to treat patients.
• Attend town council meetings to examine the ways specific information impacts the interpretations and actions taken on a local issue.
• Ask a detective how new information contributes to solving cases.
Core Concept Expanding Existing Knowledge
Sample Elementary Activities
• Describe ways in which a city and a jungle are alike. Make a pictorial presentation of your findings. PE, OE, P
• Wear a blindfold around school for a morning. Afterward, write a story which shows what it would be like to be blind in school and draw a map of the building which shows hazards for blind people in school. PE, P
• Find a cartoon in the newspaper which prevents a situation similar to one in which you have been involved. Explain how the cartoon gives you a different perspective on the real situation. OE, P
Sample Middle School Activities
• Determine the buying patterns of your friends or family. Interview the display designer at your favorite store to discuss the reasons for the placement and design of displays. Analyze the buying patterns of the identified group to determine if there is a correlation between the display location and buying practices. PE, P
• Analyze the lyrics from current rap songs to better understand social conditions in the United States. PE, OE
• Study customs from the Middle Ages to better understand contemporary social behaviors. Design a graphic presentation of the connections. OE, P
Sample High School Activities
• Investigate recent developments in biotechnology and predict their applications to the problem of world hunger. OE
• Visit a local shopping mall. Describe in a presentation how a high school is like a shopping mall and make recommendations for improving the effectiveness or atmosphere of the school. PE, P
• Determine how applied science has been a historical force in the development of modern civilization. Present your findings to the class. PE, OE, P