The instructional strategy that I will choose to share in the Teacher's Lounge is a Dump and Clump strategy. I will ask the teachers what they already know about bats. They will draw and write what they know on a notecard. They will then dump them in the middle of a pile after sharing them with the class. The teachers will then decide how they can clump this information together into different categories. We will create categories and then put our index cards into the categories that we have decided on. After reading about bats later, we will add new information that we learned into our clump map. If we need to make a new category, we can do that as well.
By: Heather Fisher