URL of PLE: http://www.symbaloo.

com/home/mix/13eP282AZd
Tool
Summary/Purpose of Rationale based on Supportive
Tool
Research
Research
Colorado Department This website provides This website provides
of Education.
unit samples, best
ideas for rigorous and
Instructional Unit
practices, ideas and relevant activities
Samples
activities for content that have been tried
areas at the second
and tested by school
grade level.
districts in Colorado.

International Center
for Leadership in
Education: The Rigor
Rlevance Framework

Provides guidelines to
ensure lesson plans
are designed with
rigorous and relevent
activities.

The rigor/relevance
framework ensures
that lessons are
designed to help
students achieve
deeper levels of
understanding of the
standard as opposed
to memorizing facts.

Jones, R.D. (2012,

March 22) Using
rigor/relevance
framework to
drive instructional
change
[PowerPoint
slides]
International
Center for
Leadership in
Education.

Integration
Ideas
Activities
can be easily
modified to
fit into
lesson plans
to help
students
master the
state
standards.

The
rigor/releva
nce
framework
challenges
teachers to
design their
lessons to
have
students
assimilate
their
material
through
creativity
and
evaluation.

Bloom's Revised
Taxonomy-A
Framework for
Assessing Student
Learning.

This website provides

a 2001 revision of the
original Bloom's
Taxonomy that was
written in 1965.

Bloom's taxonomy
provides powerful
verbs to help teachers
design their lessons
and activities that are
engaging and build
deeper understanding
of the standard.

Armstrong, P.
(2016). Bloom's
taxonomy. Center
for
teaching. Nashvill
e, TN: Vanderbilt
University.
Retrieved from:
https://cft.vander
bilt.edu/2010/04/
blooms-revisedtaxonomy-aframework-forassessing-studentlearning/

Bloom's
taxonomy
provides
powerful
verbs, like
evaluate
and create,
to help
students
achieve
deeper
understandi
ng.

Educational
Leadership: Seven
Keys to Effective
Feedback.

This tool provides

guidelines to offering
students effective
feedback.

Advice, criticism, and

encouragement are
not necessarily
effective feedback
that can help students
improve and
strengthen their
understanding. This
tool provides
guidelines and criteria
for effective
feedback.

Wiggins, G. (2012,
September) Seven
keys to effective
feedback.
Educational
leadership, Vol.
70, Number 1, pp.
10-16. Retrieved
from
http://www.ascd.
org/publications/
educationalleadership/sept12
/vol70/num01/Se
ven-Keys-toEffectiveFeedback.aspx

Feedback is
critical to
help
students
improve
their
mastery of
the
standard.
Teachers
must plan
on offering
effective
feedback as
part of their
lesson plan
and design.

Biography.com

This website provides

research and
information on
historical people.

The skills necessary to

gather and
comprehend
information are
essential for students
to be successful.
However, many
elementary school
students don't know
how to start their
research. This website
is efficient, intuitive
and offers young
students a primer to
conducting research.

Design an
activity in
which
students
have to
complete a
project
based on a
historical
figure.