Bell Ringers Made Easy

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Bell Ringers Made Easy

• Jennifer Payne, CSCOPE Consultant
• jpayne_at_esc14.net

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Laying ground work

• Where will the student keep work?
• Does work every go out of the room?
• What kind of time do bell ringers take?
• How are kids managed/monitored?
• What benefits come from bell ringer activities?

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What are Bell Ringers?

• Frame s class time (bell to bell instruction)
• Every second is precious.
• Transitions are not written off time.
• Even three minutes can make the difference in
  instruction.
• Ask yourselfDo I have access to bell ringers in
  my current curriculum?

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Why Use Bell Ringers?

• Transition from hallway leisure to classroom
  learning
• RAP a lesson
• Review And Preview
• Teacher Duty Time
• Attendance
• Student Needs
• Shuffle
• Focus students on the
• Learning

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Management/Monitoring

• Folders/Journals/Learning Notebooks kept in
  classroom
• Standard form for completing the Bell Ringer
• They are collected and graded every 5th class
  period.
• Completeness
• Participation
• Accuracy
• If a student is absent, they can copy the prompt
  from a neighbor

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TASK of Bell Ringers

• What do we expect of bell ringers?
• Purposeful
• Content based
• Thought out
• Engaging
• Students can manage

• You can monitor
• Transitions during class period
• Review
• Preview
• Work smart, not hard.

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Bell Ringer Ideas

• Remember REVIEW and PREVIEW lesson.
• Political Cartoons Historical and Current
• Video Clips
• Coaching Questions
• Games
• Activities

• Art and Images
• Document pieces
• Pre-assessment
• This Day in History
• Short Readings
• Frayer Model
• Graphic organizers

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Political Cartoons

• Use APPARTS or SOAPS to analyze cartoons

Author Place and Time Prior Knowledge Audience Rea
son The Main Idea Significance Subject Occasion
(Context) Audience Purpose Speaker
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CSCOPE Connection

• This model communicates what message?
• Graphics can be captured and used to launch prior
  knowledge.

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Video Clips

• KET Encyclomedia
• TeacherTube YouTube

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Coach Questions

• Antitrust laws, designed to prevent monopolies in
  the United States, would most likely be
  implemented in which situation described below
• Several steel factories lay off employees in
  order to increase profits
• A small company sells products or services under
  contract to a larger company.
• A national bank buys up most smaller banks within
  a geographic area
• Newspaper workers go on strike when contract
  talks with company officials fail

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Coach Questions

• When rounding numbers , students use the place
  values to determine number rounded possibility.
  List two numbers you could round the following
  number.
• 4567
• During World War II, the United States
  experienced many shortages of resources.
• Identify two shortages the United States
  experienced during World War II.

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CSCOPE Connection

• Within lessons there are scaffolding questions.
• Moves through Blooms
• Places teachers as facilitator.

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Games

• With your partner, play Paper, Rock, Scissors for
  5 minutes and keep score of who wins each game,
  including the ties
• Good introduction to the 3 Branches of
  Government/ Separation of Powers. After 5
  minutes of play, wins and ties should be roughly
  equal.balance of power. And students can
  associate Paper with the Legislative branch, Rock
  with the Executive branch, and Scissors with the
  Judicial Branch

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CSCOPE Connection
Games and Activities inside lessons.
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Activities

• When teaching the Protestant Reformation, have
  the students create a Top 10 List of things they
  would change about their school. Relate this
  activity to Luthers 95 Thesis.

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CSCOPE Connection
Fold books and graphic organizers
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Art and Images

• When analyzing images, ask students to try to put
  the image in context
• What is going on the in the image?
• What is the subject(s) doing, thinking?
• What message is the creator trying to convey? Is
  there bias?

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Not knowing multiplication tables is like this
because
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How is this like math computation?
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CSCOPE Connection
Some lessons offer art and images.
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Documents

• We the people of the United States, in order to
  form a more perfect union, establish justice,
  insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
  common defense, promote the general welfare, and
  secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
  our posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.
• What are the six goals stated within the Preamble
  of the United States Constitution?
• Restate these goals in your own words

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CSCOPE Connection
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Recipe Card for _______

• What are ingredients
• What are steps
• Flow chart of steps within

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PreAssessment

• This could take the form of a short quiz, or a
  simple ID

List 3 things you know about Native American
culture.
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CSCOPE Connection
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CSCOPE Connection

• The puffer used what force to move the cup down
  the meter stick?
• What force did the puffer have to overcome?

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This Day in History

• The History Channel offers a minute video on
  their Lead Story in This Day in History.
• Browse through different topics ranging from Old
  West, Disaster, Automobile, to World War II.
• http//www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
• www.amomentintime.com

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Math problems of the day
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CSCOPE Connection
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Analogies

• ______________ is as __________ as _____________
• ___________________is to ________________ as
• Sun is to the sky

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Short Readings

• Primary Source Documents
• Paul Harvey The Rest of the Story

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CSCOPE Connection
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Frayer Model
Commutative Property
Illustration
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CSCOPE Connection