Part of Lesson Plan: Organizing Brainstorming Ideas

Activity Overview / Details

Using the provided "Brainstorm Organizing Handout" document, the comments and ideas you gathered from the previous day's lesson (the "Brainstorm First" Lesson), and a document camera, group all of the words onto page two of the handout.

Run through the priortizing steps for both the ideas and the groups.

Write down the topic in the middle box on the first page of the handout, and write down all of the number one ideas or comments, keep going down the number list or until you have five or six ideas written down.

At each step you will need to stop and refer back to the presentation.

Continually check for understanding using the tapple method.  Ask the students what the next step is.

Note:  If you do not have access to a document camera, you can make a transparent copy of the document and use an overhead projector.  Or, if you have access to a writing tablet (wacom or other type), you can use the tablet tools to write over the handout.  Use what is available to you.  You can also sketch out the paper on a whiteboard and then use that a the demo.

Explain about the handout:

The student will write down their seperated ideas onto page two of the handout, and then they will need to put in their top five or six ideas on page one, with the topic placed in the middle box on that sheet.  They can write their top answers in any of the boxes surrounding the middle box on the first page.