Lil - have you read anything by Robert Marzano? His learner-centered classroom series is very good. You may find some ideas there as well.

This link may be helpful...
http://www.ascd.org/publications/cl...09/marzano.html

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TY Chey~ will look at it!

I don't need a lesson etc... I am looking for a short 1-2 minute, funny motivational little attention getter. Can be a joke, or word puzzles, motivational story etc.

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All I can think of right now are things like Gandhi's commitment to change through non-violence, Martin Luther King . . . the big guns like that. It never hurts to remind the young folk about life before Britney.

One of the best spark plugs I ever heard of was literal, but my friend needed to get special permission to do it.

She teaches chemistry, and on the first day of her first class she'd been in there for HOURS setting up a simple four step Rube-Goldberg thing. When the kids sat down, she set the thing off, and it ended with a hydrogen balloon going BANG. Got everyone's attention, and into the silence she announced that by the end of the year, everyone was going to be able to explain WHY and HOW each of the reactions they'd just observed happened.

It was great. The kids were interested, engaged, and she had something she could tie everything back to for the year. Each step of he chain turned up in labs.

Don't know if it's the sort of thing you're looking for...but I always liked it.

G

This is what I'm thinking about so far http://home.sprynet.com/~owl1/hist.htm

What do you think?

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I did a lesson once about faith and works ... at the end I held up both a candle and a lightbulb and explained that both were items that brought light, but that I didn't believe that any amount of faith could light either of these unless I applied some action to the process, by either lighting the candle or putting the bulb into a socket and turning it on..... that's the one that comes to mind for me at the moment.

Lil, I get that sort of thing in my mailbox about twice a year, and I absolutely love it every time.

I'd worry a bit about anything that makes equates students with stupid. But I'm sure you can put the right spin on it.