Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Science (Grades K-2) - Softcover

Westphal, Laurie E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593634935 ISBN 13: 9781593634933

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Grades K-2: Science offers teachers exciting tools to challenge and teach every child in a mixed-ability classroom. This books provide several different types of menus that students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned--instead of using a traditional worksheet format. Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Grades K-2: Science contains attractive reproducible menus, based on the levels of Bloom's Revised taxonomy, that students can use as a guide when making decisions about which products they will develop after they study a major concept or unit. Using creative and challenging choices found in Three-Shape Menus, Tic-Tac-Toe Menus, Meal Menus, Give Me Five Menus, 2-5-8 Menus, and List Menus, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products with graphics to help students easily match a product with its criteria, a rubric for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu. Grades K-2

About this title

From the Author:

These books are full of product based menus meant to accompany various units of study, however, the higher level product activities found on the menus can be selected and used whole group, or provided as options after a compacting preassessment. Think of these books as a jumping off point to meet whatever needs you may have!  I absolutely love the flexibility of menus!     I wrote this book with the hope that it would make menus more accessible to everyone; create a "household name," if you will. Menus are so flexible and useful; once they are implemented, teachers begin to look for other uses for them.  It is not that teachers or curriculum writers can not create these menus themselves, but since there just isn't always enough time, these books are designed to be ready to use.     
Menus are appropriate for all grade levels and areas of instruction. If you try a menu of your own design, or one from my books and it isn't everything you hoped it would be - please contact me! I would be happy to brainstorm improvements with you. Drop me an e-mail and we will figure it out!

About the Author:

After teaching science for more than 15 years, Laurie Westphal now works as a gifted education and science consultant. She enjoys developing and presenting staff development on low-stress differentiation strategies and using menus, working with teachers to assist them in developing lessons to meet the needs of their advanced students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1593634935
• ISBN 13: 9781593634933
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164