Deck 4: Instructional Strategies and Technologies: Motivating Students to Learn

Question 1

Write a brief role play script for students. Be sure to include a responsible message that reinforces health goals.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Field trips can be used as a valuable strategy to develop health goals. List some of the aspects that need to be considered before the field trip takes place.

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

What are some ways educational technology can be used to enhance a curriculum?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How might you use social media to develop or enhance curriculum?

Question 5

Unpack what is meant by any one of SHAPE America's appropriate practices.

Question 6

Discus the U.S. Department of Education statement: "Student access to technology is no longer a privilege: it is a prerequisite for full participation in high-quality education opportunities."

Question 7

Of the following, the best way to make lectures interesting is to

A) create an introduction, factual content, and summary.
B) distribute fill-in-the-blank outlines.
C) use notecards.
D) tell stories.

Question 8

Adding student dialogue to a lecture is designed mainly to

A) enhance the development of health literacy.
B) enable students to critique the lecture.
C) assess students' performance.
D) improve classroom control.

Question 9

In the middle of a role play, Shanda makes an authoritative statement that is false. The teacher's best strategy for addressing the false information is to

A) correct the false statement as soon as the role play ends.
B) ignore the false statement unless the class seems troubled by it.
C) jump into the role play as a new character and address the falsehood.
D) interrupt the role play to correct false information whenever it comes up.

Question 10

The strength of brainstorming is

A) precision.
B) quality of ideas.
C) variety of ideas.
D) ease of assessing ideas.

Question 11

The major goal of buzz groups is

A) compiling health research.
B) assessing health knowledge.
C) generating lots of creative ideas.
D) developing communication skills.

Question 12

Panel discussions are most useful when

A) panels are large.
B) panel members research a topic in advance.
C) panel members don't have to field audience questions.
D) the audience chooses the topic at the beginning of the discussion.

Question 13

Which of the following topics is most appropriate for a seventh-grade classroom debate?

A) Is abortion murder?
B) Should drugs be legalized?
C) Is mandatory sentencing effective?
D) Should the school nurse distribute condoms?

Question 14

An important principle of cooperative learning activities is

A) minimizing teacher guidance to encourage discovery.
B) identifying one team as a role model for others.
C) careful selection of compatible learning teams.
D) focusing on grades.

Question 15

The main purpose of the decision-making instructional strategy is to enable students to

A) describe reasons for their choices.
B) use the best criteria for making choices.
C) discover how decision-making builds self-worth.
D) determine how their peers would respond to their choices.

Question 16

Health behavior inventories created after discussing a content area should focus on

A) what students will do.
B) what students have done.
C) what students currently do.
D) revealing students' motivations.

Question 17

Of the following, the best way to ensure that a field trip is an effective learning experience is to

A) have plenty of chaperones.
B) get the consent of all parents.
C) prepare students ahead of time.
D) closely monitor potential troublemakers.

Question 18

Which of the following is LEAST important when scheduling a guest speaker?

A) advance preparation of the class
B) advance preparation of the speaker
C) the speaker's professional credentials
D) the speaker's experience with your class's age group

Question 19

Of the following, the most important benefits that high-tech equipment brings to the health curriculum are

A) graphics and color.
B) flexibility and authority.
C) low cost and accessibility.
D) personalize learning experiences.

Question 20

On the World Wide Web, you are most likely to find products offered for sale on a site with a ________ suffix in the address.

A) .org
B) .edu
C) .gov
D) .com

Question 21

The major benefit of digital whiteboards is the ability to

A) exchange content between the whiteboard and a computer.
B) access the World Wide Web from the whiteboard.
C) use the whiteboard in place of a laptop computer.
D) do away with dry-erase markers.

Question 22

Of the following, the most important function of social media for health educators is

A) to stay connected with other health educators.
B) to follow health trends and topics.
C) to gather data.
D) all of the above.

Question 23

Role plays are never scripted.

Question 24

Role reversal is a common problem that diminishes the effectiveness of role plays.

Question 25

Brainstorming is an effective way to help students learn how to make responsible decisions.

Question 26

Debate teaches students the value of reaching conclusions with partial information.

Question 27

To promote creativity, it is best not to have rating criteria for student presentations.

Question 28

An advantage of field trips is that instruction is very effective regardless of the level of preparation involved.

Question 29

When scheduling a guest speaker, it is considered bad form to ask the speaker to present on a specific topic.

Question 30

A website is a collection of documents listed under a single URL.

Question 31

There is currently no technology to permit private, one-on-one online chatting.

Question 32

The advantage of a digital whiteboard is that whatever is written on the whiteboard can be downloaded to a computer.