Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies

A Corwin Press Classroom Activity Book

Brain-compatible activities to inspire active learning in the first-grade classroom!

This valuable guide gives teachers the tools they need to plan lessons correlated to the way the brain learns best--and to ensure success for all students regardless of their learning style or special challenges! Drawing on classroom-tested, research-based strategies from Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites, this practical resource offers a variety of content-specific activities that incorporate graphic organizers and other visuals that reinforce student learning.

Based on national academic standards, these activities feature graphic organizers and visuals such as bar graphs, timelines, concept maps, sequence charts, cause-and-effect charts, segmenting mats, labeled diagrams, and more. Each activity includes step-by-step directions, skills objectives, materials lists, and a myriad of creative reproducibles that help students organize and record their learning. This resource offers a multitude of brain-compatible activities that cover topics such as:

• Measurement, addition, math vocabulary
• Animal behavior, parts of plants
• Maps, jobs, museums
• Main ideas, homophones, sentence building
• Fitness, drawing, colors, and much more

Make a real difference in your students′ energy, motivation, and achievement by applying these proven strategies to help them master curriculum objectives!