Linking the brain, mind, teaching, and learning
Amy Roberto
October 2013

• Christopher Columbus
Middle School in Clifton,
NJ
• 6 th Grade Language Arts
Class
– 23 Students
– Culturally diverse
– Various learning styles
– Inclusion setting
Classroom Environment:
– Friendly, respectful, and tolerant
– Encourages social justice and multicultural education
– Encourages thinking outside the box
– Close knit
– Humorous
– Multi-sensory

SWBAT:
• Define, understand, depict, and use plot elements
• Map out a story’s plot in sequential order
• Cite textual evidence in order to answer questions and give meaning to text
• Relate content across the curriculum and to their everyday lives

• Defining terms
• Streaming videos
• Discussing terms
• Brainstorming additional examples for each term
Total time: 25 minutes

• Conflict skits
• Cinderella interactive
• Plot map
Total time: 25 minutes

• Plot elements rap
Total time: 5 minutes

• Completion of all classroom activities and discussions
• Conflict skit
• Plot map
• Plot elements quiz

• Computer with speakers
• LCD projector
• Elmo
• SmartBoard and SmartBoard Notebook software
• Youtube video clips
• SmartBoard Notebook random name picker
• Cinderella interactive
• Flocabulary song

SENSE
• Learning terms and definitions
• Recording them in their notebook
MEANING
• Connecting terms and their meanings to video clip examples
• Connecting terms and their meanings to real life events
• Creating and performing skits based on types of conflict
• Depicting elements in Cinderella

• Detect info
• Integrate info
• Respond to info

• Thalamus
• Hippocampus
• Amygdala

• Frontal lobe
• Occipital lobe
• Temporal lobe
• Parietal lobe

CONCRETE RANDOM ABSTRACT RANDOM
• Video clips
• Class discussion
• Skit
• Cinderella interactive
• Plot elements rap song
ABSTRACT SEQUENTIAL
• Cinderella interactive
• Skit
• Plot map
CONCRETE SEQUENTIAL
• Cinderella interactive
• Skit
• Class discussion
• Plot map
• Plot elements quiz
• Defining Terms
• Cinderella interactive
• Plot map

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<http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/learning/memory.html>.
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2006. Print.
"Understanding Your Student's Learning Style: The Theory of Multiple
Intelligences." Cartoon.Virtual Learning Connections. Connections
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<http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2013-01-
18/Understanding-Your-Student-s-Learning-Style-The-Theory-of-Multiple-
Intelligences.aspx>.
*All other images are from Microsoft Clipart.