Teaching Models II

Concept Development
1.  Brainstorm 2. Group things together because they are alike.  3.  Label the groups use reasons for groupings. 4.  Regroup or include individual things or whole groups into other groups. 5.  Summarize the information and form generalizations.  6.Evaluate students' progress assessing their ability to generate a wide variety of items and to group them flexibly.

I think the concept development plan would be a great to introduce the topic of what is technology into the classroom.  1.  I have the students brainstorm all the ideas they can think of and write them on a sheet of paper.  Each student gives me one example and we put them on the board.  2.  Once all the suggestions are on the board, we start seeing if we can make groups of the different kinds of technology the students have created.  3.  We label the groups and 4.  start regrouping individual things or  whole groups into our labels.  5.  In small groups the students need to start evaluating the information to come up with definitions for the groups we have made.  6.  Conduct the discussion to hopefully come to the idea that anything that is manmade and solves a problem is technology, not just electronic devices.  

I am not sure how to do it, but I think this model could be great in defining nouns, verbs and adjectives.  Every year my students struggle with what these are.  I am wondering how I can brainstorm this.  Would it be three different brainstorms?  How would I ask the first question?  Would that give it away?  Should I just ask, What is a thing?  Then brainstorm Something you do and last use a word to describe something.  2.  It would be interesting to see if we could group these into groups that are alike, then 3.  Label these groups.  4.  We could regroup individual things into other groups and then maybe move whole groups.  5.  Summarize the information and form generalizations or bigger definitions for the groups.  6.  The assessment would be in using one noun, one verb and one adjective to make up sentences.  How many combinations could we make.