Schema Activities

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=501178" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="31800640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Message </b></FONT><B>   |     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Message"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Schema Activities</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Instructions: </b></div> <div> Read this to students and have them write down as much as they can remember. </div> <div> Read it a second time.  Tell them that this is a proceedure for how to do laundry. </div> <div> Discuss how we use schema to organize information</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The procedure is actually quite simple.  First, you arrange things into different groups.  Of your, one pile may be sufficient, depending on how much there is to do.  If you have to go somewhere else due to lack of facilities, that is the next step; otherwise you are pretty well set.  It is important not to overdo things.  That is, it is better to do too few things at once than too many.  In the short run this may not seem important but complications can easily arise.  A mistake can be expensive as well.  At first the whole procedure will seem complicated.  Soon, however, it will become just another facet of life.  It is difficult to foresee any end to the necessity for this task in the immediate future, but then one never can tell.  After the procedure is completed one arranges the materials into different groups again.  Then they can be put into their appropriate places.  Eventually they will be used once more and the whole cycle will then have to be repeated.  However, that is part of life.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Ask students to solve this riddle</b></div> <bR> <div> A big Indian and a little Indian are sitting on a log.  The big Indian points to the little Indian and says, "That Indian is my son."  The little Indian points to the big Indian and says, "That Indian is not my father."  Both are telling the truth.  How is this possible?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The answer:  The Indian is his mother.  Our schemas often associate Indians as males. </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>