AVID

Achievement Via Individual Determination

AVID is an excellent program designed to help students succeed in school then attend college to become a professional. AVID was developed in San Diego and has spread to 45 different states and 16 countries in Department of Defense schools.

Lessons and information linked to this page are often used with students or in the Write Path or Summer Institutes taught by Martin Teachworth. Much of the information may be found in some form or another in other AVID materials or in other areas of the Teachworth web site. The source of the materials is myriad. Some lessons are taken from AVID materials such as “The Write Path” for Science, some from the AVID Summer Institute Science Strand and others are variations on labs, demonstrations or lessons developed over the years.

Interactive Notebook Information

Construction Methods and Suggestions

Most Recent Pages to Print out and Use by Teachworth (Physics Related)

Scoring Notebooks – One Method That Works

Write Path and General Handouts

Adult Scientific Illiteracy Article

Animal Use Case Study – Donated Article Used with Reading Strategies

Article Archaeologist

Average Child Poem

AVIDize a Lab

Box and Whisker Information

Brain – The Hand Model Explanation

Candle and Tube Demonstration Supplies and Video Link

Cartoon Project

Cinquain – A five-line poem

Committee Review of Lab Procedure (Experimental Design)

Components of Good Procedure Writing

Components of Special Assignments

Cornell Note Taking Information with the DUFAS variation

Costa’s Levels of Questioning with Granny’s House Analogy

Diamante Poem (Diamond Poem)

Energy Scavenger Hunt

ExDs

Flask Demonstration

Four Square Analogy

Four Corners – Brief Explanation

Gallery Walk

Gemzlocz – Procedure Writing

Giving and Following Directions

Graphic Organizers

Haiku Information

Headless Frog Article

How Does It Float?

How do you score as a lab partner?

Interactive Notebooks

Construction

General Information

Possible Grading Method

Most Recent Pages to Print out and Use by Teachworth (Physics Related)

Learning Styles Assessment (handout and types of learners)

Limerick Information

Marzano’s Research and AVID Strategies

Me Map Information

One Pager – Summary of a Reading Assignment

Origami Frog Lab

Paraphrasing

Penny Lab

Introduction

Writing Procedures

Box and Whiskers Plot

Philosophical Chair Information and Suggestions

Pre- and Quickwrites

Reading for Significant Statements

Riddles and Science Content

Rope Problem

Schemata

The Number Game

Word Games – What are the Rules?

Reading Paragraph (with BLANKS)

Reading Paragraph (with ANSWERS)

Science Photo Assignment

Science Teacher Book Assignment

STAR Note Taking Strategies

Temple of Knowledge – Graphic and Explanation

Three Hole Bottle

Trip to the Circus

Vocabulary Card Instructions

What is Clinical Research? – Donated Article used with Reading Strategies

Whose Fault Is It? – Intro Poem

WICR – Image of WICR and different modes of each aspect

Write Path Sequence