Compacting the Curriculum
Compacting allows teachers to meet the individual learning needs of all students over the course of a unit, chapter, or lesson sequence. Click here for a short powerpoint presentation, and a sample Choice Board.


Choice Board Activity

 

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Unit/Theme: __________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Tic-Tac-Toe Menu

 

Directions:  Chose activities in a tic-tac-toe design.  When you have completed the activities in a row-horizontally, vertically, or diagonally-or in the 4 corners, you made decide to be finished.  Or you may decide to keep going and complete more activities.  Star the activities you plan to complete.  Color in the box when you finish the activity.

 

 

Collect

 

Facts or ideas which are important to you.

(Knowledge)

Teach

 

A lesson about your topic to our class.  Include as least one visual aid.

(Synthesis)

Draw

 

A diagram, map or picture of your topic.

(Application)

Judge

 

Two different viewpoints about an issue. Explain your decision.

(Evaluation)

Photograph

 

Videotape, or film part of your presentation.

(Synthesis)

Demonstrate

 

Something to show what you have learned.

(Application)

Graph

 

Some part of your study to show how many or how few.

(Analysis)

Create

 

An original poem, dance, picture, song, or story.

(Synthesis)

Dramatize

 

Something to show what you have learned.

(Synthesis)

Survey

 

Others to learn their opinions about some fact, idea, or feature of your study.

(Analysis)

Forecast

 

How your topic will change in the next 10 years.

(Synthesis)

Build

 

A model or diorama to illustrate what you have learned.

(Application)

Create 

 

An original game using the facts you have learned.

(Synthesis)

Memorize

 

And recite a quote or a short list of facts about your topic.

(Knowledge)

Write

 

An editorial for the student newspaper or draw an editorial cartoon.

(Evaluation)

Compare

 

Two things from your study.  Look for ways they are alike and different.

(Analysis)