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Active Learning for ALL:
Concept Based Instruction
with Depth and Complexity
Patry Marcum-Lerwick
lerwick2@aol.com
Recognize/
Awareness
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Knowledge
in one
discipline
Apply in
discipline
Apply
across
disciplines
Apply to
real-world
predictable
situations
Apply to real-
world
unpredictable
situations
ACQUISITION APPLICATION
ASSIMILATION ADAPTATION
Recognize/
Awareness
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Knowledge
in one
discipline
Apply in
discipline
Apply
across
disciplines
Apply to
real-world
predictable
situations
Apply to real-
world
unpredictable
situations
PATTERNS
STRUCTURES
SYSTEMS
RELATIONSHIPS
ORDER
CHANGE
Democracy
Characterization
Biomes
Congruency
Operations
Quantity
Equivalence
To Kill a Monkingbird
Spanish American War
Fact Families
Albert Einstein
Flipbook on word families
Solar Ovens
Adaptation Lab
Pioneer Wagon
Johnny Apple Seed
PATTERNS
STRUCTURES
SYSTEMS
RELATIONSHIPS
ORDER
CHANGE
Democracy
Characterization
Biomes
Congruency
Operations
Quantity
Equivalence
To Kill a Monkingbird
Spanish American War
Fact Families
Albert Einstein
Flipbook on word families
Solar Ovens
Adaptation Lab
Pioneer Wagon
Johnny Apple Seed
Clock
Ruler
Scale
-Three
branches of
government
-President
-Head of State
-Parliament
-characters
-plot
-setting
-major
events
-plants
-dogs
-bacteria
-fungus
Clock
Ruler
Scale
-Three branches
of government
-President
-Head of State
-Parliament
-characters
-plot
-setting
-major
events
Measurement Government
Story Elements Living Organisms
-plants
-dogs
-bacteria
-fungus
Measurement
Government
Story Elements
Living Organisms
Universal Concepts:
Taxonomy of Learning,
Instruction, and Assessment
The Knowledge
Dimension
The Cognitive Process Dimension
1
Remember
2
Understand
3
Apply
4
Analyze
5
Evaluate
6
Create
A.
Factual Knowledge
B.
Conceptual
Knowledge
C.
Procedural
Knowledge
D.
Metacognitive
Knowledge
•Create a sketch representing the
differences between facts,
concepts, and big ideas
(generalizations).
•Use a metaphor or analogy as
necessary.
Conceptual Knowledge
 The interrelationships among the basic
elements within a larger structure that
enable them to function together
 Knowledge of classifications and categories
 Periods of geological time; forms of business
ownership
 Knowledge of principles and generalizations
 Pythagorean theorem; law of supply and demand
 Knowledge of theories, models, and structures
 Theory of evolution; structure of Congress
Concepts in the Disciplines
UniversalConcepts
Macro Concepts
DisciplinaryConcepts
Concepts in the Disciplines
Examples of Universal
Themes
 Adaptation
 Change
 Patterns
 Order
 Relationships
 Interdependence
 Conflict
 Power
 Systems
 Structures
An example of the this generalization
is…
I think the big idea means…
Universal Concepts
Universal Concepts
Universal Concepts

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