Explain

**The Explain Stage**
Only after students have explored the concept or skill does the teacher provide the concepts and terms used by the students to develop explanations for the phenomenon they have experienced. The significant aspect of this phase is that explanation follows experience.

**ActivInspire**

ActivInspire is a software program that is extremly engaging for students and creates many opportunities for teachers and students. Using an interactive whiteboard students can be actively involved in th program. You can create lessons that come to life with color, videos, sound, and graphics. They can be very basic lessons such as comprehension or you can create videos with the students. Using this program you can easily create and manipulate flipcharts from my computer or Whiteboard.

**Lesson Ideas**



**Tagual - Word Clouds**

This program allows all the vocabulary generated by the students in previous lessons to be put together into an interactive "bubble" students are able to click on the word and they will be re-directed to the Google search of the word.

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[|**Realtime Whiteboard - Map of Earth**]

This allows students to draw on a [|blank whiteboard], [|blackboard] or [|website], teachers can use this as a way of explaining student questions. You are also able to view others [|drawings and previous drawings]

**Lesson Ideas**


 * The explain stage is all about the students getting answers to the questions they have previously posed. This word cloud can lead on from the previous lessons where students have asked questions using Wallwisher.
 * Students are given time to explore the words that they are interested in, this allows the students to discover any misconceptions and learn new things.
 * The lesson can be finished with a group share of the students new learnings

**VELS link** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Discipline Based Learning - Geography - Geographical Understanding
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Use geographic language to identify and describe the human and physical characteristics of local and global environments depicted by different kinds of maps, diagrams, photographs and satellite image

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