Troy Patterson

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Periodic Table
Periodic Table

Periodic Table Personalities

September 20, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I’ve posted a “Periodic Table Personalities” resource over on Middle School Matters.

Periodic Table Personalities is the embodiment of the personification of those elements that make up our world.

Students simply answer a few questions about themselves to find that elemental connection. That’s right, students answer some (16) questions and then are presented with their “Element”.

Thanks to Shawn McGirr who developed this wonderful resource. This is an H5P activity that can be downloaded and reused.

Frayer Model

January 3, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I’ve long been a fan of the Frayer Model. This is an easy to use, flexible graphic organizer that can help students understand concepts. It is most commonly used for vocabulary words, but can be extended as well.

The wonderful Alice Keeler posted a hint to create Frayer Models using Google Slides. This then reminded me of a Frayer Models in Moodle. I posted this several years ago, but I took this opportunity to update the post with some directions for Moodle 4.

I’m thinking that I should create a “Comic” of this using ComicLife 4.

AI Thoughts

AI Thoughts

January 3, 2025 / / 0 Comments

I’ve been following AI in education for a while. I am discussing with teachers about how they are using it. Here’s the thing, the most popular real-world use case that I’m seeing is in creating multiple choice assessment options.

The second biggest use seems to be leveling material (and then creating multiple choice questions) for students. Leveling material changes the text to read at a different reading level. Leveling can be powerful. Like everything else in education, it needs to be used wisely and judiciously. Students need access to grade-level text on a regular basis.

Students are using it very differently, mostly to write stuff it seems.

It is interesting that almost all new resources seem to come back to traditional learning methods.

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