Jennifer Payne, CSCOPE Consultant

jpayne@esc14.net

Laying ground work

Where will the student keep work?
Does work every go out of the room?
What kind of time do bell ringers take?
How are kids managed/monitored?
What benefits come from bell ringer

activities?

What are Bell Ringers?

Frame s class time (bell to bell

instruction)
Every second is precious.
Transitions are not written off time.
Even three minutes can make the
difference in instruction.
Ask yourselfDo I have access to
bell ringers in my current curriculum?

Why Use Bell Ringers?

Transition from hallway leisure to classroom

learning
RAP a lesson
Review And Preview
Teacher Duty Time
Attendance
Student Needs
Shuffle
Focus students on the
Learning

Management/Monitoring
Folders/Journals/Learning

Notebooks kept in classroom

Standard form for completing the
Bell Ringer
They are collected and graded
every 5th class period.
Completeness
Participation
Accuracy

If a student is absent, they can

copy the prompt from a neighbor

TASK of Bell Ringers

What do we expect

of bell ringers?
Purposeful
Content based
Thought out
Engaging
Students can
manage

You can monitor

Transitions

during class
period
Review
Preview
Work smart, not
hard.

Bell Ringer Ideas

Remember REVIEW

and PREVIEW lesson.

Political Cartoons:
Historical and
Current
Video Clips
Coaching Questions
Games
Activities

Art and Images

Document pieces
Pre-assessment
This Day in History
Short Readings
Frayer Model
Graphic organizers

Political Cartoons
Use APPARTS or SOAPS to analyze cartoons
Author
Place and Time
Prior Knowledge
Audience
Reason
The Main Idea
Significance
Subject
Occasion
(Context)
Audience
Purpose
Speaker

CSCOPE Connection
This model

communicates what
message?

Graphics can be

captured and used to

launch prior knowledge.

Video Clips
KET Encyclomedia
TeacherTube; YouTube

Coach Questions
Antitrust laws, designed to prevent monopolies

in the United States, would most likely be

implemented in which situation described
below:
A. Several steel factories lay off employees in

order to increase profits

B. A small company sells products or services
under contract to a larger company.
C. A national bank buys up most smaller banks
within a geographic area
D. Newspaper workers go on strike when contract
talks with company officials fail

Coach Questions
When rounding numbers , students use the

place values to determine number rounded

possibility. List two numbers you could round
the following number.
4567

During World War II, the United States

experienced many shortages of resources.

Identify two shortages the United States
experienced during World War II.

CSCOPE Connection
Within lessons there

are scaffolding
questions.
Moves through
Blooms
Places teachers as
facilitator.

Games

With your partner, play Paper, Rock, Scissors

for 5 minutes and keep score of who wins

each game, including the ties
Good introduction to the 3 Branches of

Government/ Separation of Powers. After 5

minutes of play, wins and ties should be
roughly equal.balance of power. And
students can associate Paper with the
Legislative branch, Rock with the Executive
branch, and Scissors with the Judicial Branch

CSCOPE Connection
Games and
Activities inside
lessons.

Activities
When teaching the

Protestant
Reformation, have
the students create
a Top 10 List of
things they would
change about their
school. Relate this
activity to Luthers
95 Thesis.

CSCOPE Connection
Fold books and
graphic organizers

Art and Images

When analyzing
images, ask students
to try to put the image
in context:
What is going on the
in the image?
What is the subject(s)
doing, thinking?
What message is the
creator trying to
convey? Is there bias?

Not knowing multiplication tables is like

this because

How is this like math computation?

CSCOPE Connection

Some lessons offer art and

images.

Documents

We the people of the United States, in order to

form a more perfect union, establish justice,

insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.
What are the six goals stated within the

Preamble of the United States Constitution?

Restate these goals in your own words

CSCOPE Connection

Recipe Card for _______

What are ingredients
What are steps
Flow chart of steps within

PreAssessment
This could take the form of a short quiz, or

a simple ID:
List 3 things you
know about Native
American culture.

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CSCOPE
Connection

The puffer used what

force to move the cup
down the meter stick?
What force did the puffer
have to overcome?

This Day in History

The History Channel offers a minute video on

their Lead Story in This Day in History.

Browse through different topics ranging from
Old West, Disaster, Automobile, to World War
II.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
www.amomentintime.com

Math problems of the day

CSCOPE Connection

Analogies
______________ is as __________ as _____________

___________________is to ________________ as

Sun is to the sky

Short Readings
Primary Source Documents
Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story

CSCOPE Connection

Frayer Model
Definition

Analysis:

Everyday use

Commutative
Property

Illustration

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