Deck 14: Activity Planning

Question 1

Activities may have more than one purpose.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An activity plan should include behavior interventions intended for selected students.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

As a general rule, activities should include a hands-on experience for students.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Mrs.James notices that her students need to learn how to discriminate between a rectangle and a square.What is the best way to help her students master this skill?

A) Provide extended practice.
B) Develop a unit based on this long-term objective.
C) Plan an activity to introduce this skill.
D) Plan a lesson to provide complete instruction on this basic skill.

Question 5

Which of the following statements about activities is true?

A) Activities should be used after lessons.
B) Activities have short-term objectives.
C) Activities are just as important as lessons.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 6

Activities have one purpose, but lessons have a variety of purposes.

Question 7

The evaluation for an activity is formal and individual; the evaluation for a lesson is less formal and less individual.

Question 8

Activities can be used to monitor progress toward a long-term objective.

Question 9

'Activities are designed to meet short-term objectives.

Question 10

Activities can be used to build background information for a lesson.

Question 11

Which is NOT one of the three ways to distinguish between lessons and activities?

A) by their objective
B) by their purpose
C) by their content
D) by their evaluation

Question 12

When writing an activity plan, at which stage should teachers add critical management skills?

A) preplanning
B) writing the activity middle
C) writing the activity closing
D) editing

Question 13

An activity is NOT expected to end with the evaluation of each student's independent performance of the new skill or information.

Question 14

Lessons and activities have different components and different purposes.

Question 15

Lessons often include activities.

Question 16

Which of the following statements is true?

A) Lessons include short-term objectives, whereas activities include long-term objectives.
B) Lessons are designed mainly for practice and integration of content.
C) Activities are designed mainly for application and generalization of content.
D) Activities are the preferred way to teach new content.

Question 17

Using backward planning means to choose the objective before selecting an activity.

Question 18

Lessons are designed to help each student accomplish a specific, measurable, short-term objective.

Question 19

The objective for an activity does NOT need to be measurable.

Question 20

Activities should be directly related to an important basic skill.

Question 21

Describe and give examples of three purposes of activities.

Question 22

What is the purpose of the activity rationale?

Question 23

How do the objectives for lessons and activities differ?

Question 24

Which one of the following is a well-written objective for an activity?

A) Students will play a bingo game in which math fact questions are called out.
B) When shown rock samples in their natural setting, students will point to three examples of each of the three basic types of rocks (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic).
C) Students will write a topic sentence.
D) Students will practice labeling the parts of speech we have been studying.

Question 26

Explain how to decide when to write an activity plan and when to write a lesson plan.

Question 27

Explain how you would develop an activity plan.

Question 28

How are lessons and activities different in terms of the type of evaluation included?

Question 29

How much detail should be included in an activity plan you will refer to as you teach?

A) an outline of the activity and a rationale in paragraph format
B) a detailed description of the activity and any instructional interventions
C) an outline or bulleted list for each component
D) an outline of the activity and any directions you plan to give written out word-for-word

Question 30

Which of the following is likely to be an intended purpose of an activity?

A) Students apply specific skills/knowledge.
B) Students improve specific skills/knowledge.
C) Students practice specific skills/knowledge.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 31

Suppose a parent wonders why you are "wasting time" by using review games with your students.How would you explain the purpose or value of this activity?

Question 32

The parent of one of your students owns a pizza parlor and volunteers to bring six pizzas to your class.You decide this would be a great way to begin your study of fractions.You make a plan to divide your class into six groups and have each group problem solve how to divide their pizza so everyone gets an equal part.Afterwards, each group will explain their thinking.Which of the following did you plan?

A) a lesson
B) an activity
C) a unit
D) an assessment

Question 33

When an activity plan is congruent , the writer has created a match between:

A) what students need to review and the content of the activity.
B) the objective, description, and rationale of the activity.
C) the resources available to students and the resources required for the activity.
D) the objective of the activity and the state standard it addresses.