1. Fitch, Sergent, and Stout
choice boards
Fitch, Sergent, and Stout

2. What are they?
Opportunity to give students multiple ways of processing information and rehearsing content & skills.
May work alone or with partners
Choose topic and method of presenting

3. EXAMPLE – “The Killers Project”
Research a poisonous/toxic organism.
Each student signs up to join a group to work on an area of interest. There are more “choice lines” than students so everyone gets the chance to select a favorite area.
Today’s organism: Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade)
REPRODUCTION
________________
CLASSIFICATION
BODY PLAN
SYMPTOMS
HABITAT
POISON TYPE

4. EXAMPLE – “The Killers Project”
Research a poisonous/toxic organism.
Students select a method of presenting the information they research from the choice wheel
Today’s organism: Hapalochlaena lunulata (greater blue-ringed octopus)
Create a web search
WILD CARD
Create an infomercial to sell it
Interview an expert
Write a children’s book
Prepare a reenactment
WILD CARD
Write a rap song

5. EXAMPLE – “The Killers Project”
Research a poisonous/toxic organism.
Tic-Tac-Toe your way to information! Choose your method of presenting the information and the organism(s) you’d like to research.
Connect poison mechanism to natural habitat
Create a mural, poster or drawing
Lophozozymus pictor
(xanthid crab)
FREE SPACE
(your choice on research/presentation style)
Taricha torosa
(California newt)
Arothron nigrapunctatus
(black-spotted puffer)
Leiurus quinquestriatus
(deathstalker scorpion)
Design a game to show survival
Describe a sequence for treatment

6. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Knowledge Application Analysis
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Evaluation
Synthesis
Verbal-Linguistic
Record at least 5 vocabulary words that you found interesting.
Write a summary of the book or chapter that you read.
Write a conversation between two characters from your book.
Compare two characters from a novel or from your text.
Choose two people from your text and justify their actions.
Write a letter to the editor about your views on an issue from the text.
Visual-
Spatial
Draw a diagram and label the parts.
Summarize events from the text using a sequence ladder or comic strip.
Research a person or event from the text and make a storyboard to explain your findings.
Use a Venn Diagram to compare characters or events from the text.
Develop a visual presentation to justify the actions of a person in the text.
Use a Mind Map containing symbols that represent a person from the text. Give the meaning of each symbol.
Logica/-
Mathematical
Place events from the text on a timeline.
Explain in a flowchart the events from the text.
Demonstrate an understanding of the information in the text.
Diagram how the text represents information that all students should know.
Critique the motives of the people in the text.
Determine how the author’s life may have influenced the slant of the text. Chart your findings.
Naturalist
List things from the text that appeal to each of the five senses.
Suggest a solution to a problem from the text.
Demonstrate how nature played a role in events from the text.
If a person from the text lived today, what types of things would be found in his/her suitcase?
Rate the motives of a person from the text. Explain the rating scale.
Hypothesize what might have changed if the person were in a different environment.

7. (K)
Draw a Diagram and label the parts
(visual/spatial)
(S)
Write a letter to the editor about your views on an issue from the text
(verbal/linguistic)
(C)
Explain in a flowchart the events from the text
(logical/mathematical)
(Ap)
Write a conversation between 2 characters (concepts/parts) debating who is better
(An)
Diagram how the text represents information that all students should know
List things from the text that appeal to the 5 senses
(naturalist)
(E)
Edit/judge your table partner’s Comprehension/Applicationactivity
Suggest a solution to the problem from the text
Research a person or event from the text and make a storyboard to explain your findings