Activating Prior Knowledge and Building Background
READY
What do I know?
Prior knowledge allows
students’ to connect the
subject with an entry level
example that relates to their
lives or something that the
student finds important. It
engages students to explore
and discover based on this
entry level idea(usually
something in their interests),
and undercover new concepts.
SET GO WHOA
What new information do I What new information do I What questions do I still have?
think I will gather? have?
How to transfer this prior The difference between
knowledge onto other Curator & Dumper, and deeper
concepts among respective learning along with a better
content or possible onto other way to define transfer learning.
subjects/disciplines. Using this Supporting student motivation
prior knowledge example and
being able to project it onto
new subjects within respective
content. Learning the
importance of activating prior
knowledge.