Activating Prior Knowledge and Building Background

READY SET GO WHOA

What do I know? What new information do I What new information do I What questions do I still have?
think I will gather? have?

● Prior knowledge is the ● Strategies for activating ● Teachers often dump ● How can I utilize these
knowledge that students prior too much information strategies when
students have on a knowledge onto students at the assigning an essay?
given topic before the ● How prior knowledge beginning of the ● How can I activate prior
lesson can be used during a lesson. This can be knowledge in a fun and
● Teachers need to build lesson very overwhelming to creative way for a
off of this prior ● What prior knowledge students writing assignment?
knowledge so the can mean in an English ● One way to avoid this ● What if the prior
students can connect classroom is by curating specific knowledge activity
what they already know information to your doesn’t go well, does
to what they need to students that set up the rest of
know ● Student motivation your lesson for failure?
increases if they can ● Is building a students
relate the content to prior knowledge the
their own most important part of
lives/experiences a lesson?
● Giving students a
choice is a great way to
support student
motivation