29-Bell Ringers Made Easy

Jennifer Payne, CSCOPE Consultant

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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.
CSCOPE Connection
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
CSCOPE Connection

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Jennifer Payne, CSCOPE Consultant

Laying ground work

What are Bell Ringers?

Why Use Bell Ringers?

Notebooks kept in classroom

If a student is absent, they can

copy the prompt from a neighbor

TASK of Bell Ringers

You can monitor

Bell Ringer Ideas

and PREVIEW lesson.

Art and Images

captured and used to

in the United States, would most likely be

order to increase profits

place values to determine number rounded

During World War II, the United States

experienced many shortages of resources.

With your partner, play Paper, Rock, Scissors

for 5 minutes and keep score of who wins

Government/ Separation of Powers. After 5

Art and Images

Not knowing multiplication tables is like

How is this like math computation?

Some lessons offer art and

We the people of the United States, in order to

form a more perfect union, establish justice,

Preamble of the United States Constitution?

Recipe Card for _______

The puffer used what

This Day in History

The History Channel offers a minute video on

their Lead Story in This Day in History.

Math problems of the day

Sun is to the sky

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