Analyze- to break down into parts or
principles in order to understand the whole. It means to take apart in
such a way that complete understanding of the whole can be acquired by a
consideration of it components. Some organizational patterns include
enumerations, order of importance, chronological. Behavior verbs associated
with analyze are: distinguish, detect, classify, categorize, compare,
contrast, differentiate, separate, choose, sort, dissect.
TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
TIPS:
1) Online Dictionaries-
Look up the word on online dictionaries as a whole class activity to introduce
and brainstorm ideas and activities about the word. Use the PC to TV device or
other projection system if possible. Here are some good online
dictionaries:
-Miriam Webster
seems to be the easiest and most concise http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
-Your Dictionary.com
at http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Similar to above
-Wordsmyth http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php
This one is interesting... when you click on the word to see the definitions,
more sections automatically appear, which could give ideas for instruction or activities
- such as synonyms, similar words, examples in a sentence, etc.
-One Look (
searches for the word in a multitude of different online dictionaries)
http://www.onelook.com
2) Great Websites- check these out for whole class
display or individual enrichment
- How Stuff Works - just
like the great book series - shows the inner workings of just about
everything! http://www.howstuffworks.com/
- Virtual Frog Dissection - save a frog and
observe online- ( hint you need to have a free program called Flash downloaded
on your machine to see this) http://www.froguts.com/
-Owl Pellet Dissection - observe
the parts and analyze conclusions at http://www.kidwings.com/index.htm
-Solve a Mystery-
analyze the clues and solve the mystery! For intermediate through 8th
grade- "The Peetnik Mysteries" at http://www.superpages.com/enlightenme/superthinkers/pages/welcome.html
; For Middle School to High School - "The Mystery Spot" from Access
Excellence, focusing on science and health scenarios- http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/
-Venn Diagrams - instructions
on this website on how to use your word processing program to create a Venn
Diagram http://www.essdack.org/tips/venn.html
This site creates venn diagrams online, as well as other types of graphic
organizers. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/
3) Inspiration and Kidspiration - Again, this
"visual thinking" program has many options to study a topic or an
idea. There are templates included in the program for many activities,
such as a character analysis, cycles, cause and effect, etc. To access
templates, go to "file" then "new". To
view how other teachers have used these programs, go to http://inspiration.com/productinfo/inspiration/using_insp/index.cfm
. If you don't have access to the program in your building, remember there is a
free 30 day download option from the software company. Check it out at : http://inspiration.com/index.cfm
For more examples on how to use Inspiration in the classroom , check out
this page http://www.usd305.com/staffdev/tech%20vision/Inspiration/inspex.htm
4) Graphing- Using a
variety of programs, students create graphs to help them analyze data. You
can use Excell, Word ( go to Insert-Picture-Chart), or various other programs
such as Graph Club or Graph Master at http://www.tomsnyder.com/
Also, many student publications (Weekly Reader, etc) and
textbooks contain graphs for student analysis of reading material.
5) Database- Classify
and sort information using a database. Create one using a table in Word,
use a spreadsheet in Excel, or use Access.
For more ideas or help using any of these computer programs or websites, please contact your technology resource teachers: