- Optimize individual choice and autonomy
- Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity
- Minimize threats and distractions
Brain Breaks
Brain Breaks can be a low tech or high tech way to get students moving and give them quick relief before continuing with the lesson. Often times these breaks consist of dancing or a physical movement. This provides multiple means of Engagement offering individual choice and autonomy. Brain Breaks offer an incentive for students to be engaged in a lesson. This allows them to get active and have fun so they can learn to the best of their ability.
www.gonoodle.com www.movetolearn.com Dry-Erase Place MatsThese mats are a low tech tool which encourages students to complete a variety of tasks. These are typically used for younger children but can be used on a variety of skills and age ranges when appropriate. Dry-Erase place mats provide multiple means of Engagement by optimizes individual choice and autonomy. These place mats can be a very fun way for students to get involved in learning in a variety of settings.
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Poll Everywhere
This is a high tech way for students to provide responses and to check their opinions and answers against others. This website is anonymous so students can provide honest responses without feeling ashamed of their answers. Poll everywhere provides multiple means of Engagement because it minimizes threats and distractions. There is not a threat of wrong answers or being picked on because of a particular response because it is anonymous.
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The fact family triangle is a way for students to test their math abilities involving families. On one side of the triangle is addition and subtraction families and the reverse side are multiplication and division families. Students can provide their responses using dry erase markers. This provides multiple means of Engagement because it optimizes relevance, value, and authenticity. This tool allows students to better see the relevance that division plays in multiplication and that subtraction plays in addition.
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Reading A-Z
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This is a website which allows the teacher to set the students reading level and then when the students log on, it provides them with a variety of books and games that are appropriate for their reading level. This website provides multiple means of Engagement because it optimizes individual choice and autonomy. This website allows students to choose what they want to read or play.
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