Supplementary Activities   Four supplementary activities are also suggested as options that can be used to extend and enhance your use of the modules. MAGNETIC WORDS: This brief warm-up activity helps develop the interaction between participants as well as focus attention on the essential aspects of the LfA curricular model: Assessment, Instruction, and Standards. ALTERED ASSESSMENT: In this "springboard" activity, participants review a variety of short, related assessment items and analyze the type of information each might elicit from students. By noting slight changes in context as well as content, participants learn ways that tasks can be modified to be more powerful. EXAMINING RESOURCES TO SUPPORT ALIGNMENT: The LfA materials utilize a curricular model that emphasizes alignment of standards, the instructional program, and assessment. This activity helps to identify the support and resources needed by teachers to accomplish better alignment of these elements. HOP TO IT! USING THE PBS Mathline® VIDEO: The Hop To It! video, part of the PBS Mathline® series on algebraic thinking, was created in conjunction with LfA Module 1. The LfA package includes the video and guidelines for when, why, and how you can use specific portions of it with each of the LfA modules. Back Next