How to work with LessonUp?

• History
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

How to work with LessonUp?

This year you will do most history lessons in LessonUp.

If you are not familiar with this program, you can learn how it works in this lesson.

What do you need to bring?

the best way to work with LessonUp is to always bring a 

OR

Although your smartphone will work too, 

the screen is just too small to use it well.

1. the structure of LessonUp

This year you will do most history lessons in LessonUp.

If you are not familiar with this program, you can learn how it works in this lesson.

Every lesson begins with a title slide.

Click the hotspots to see what each item in the slide means

this text tells you where you can find this lesson in your textbook: Digging Deeper. 

In this example: it is Chapter 1.15

This is the sub title. It tells you what this lesson of the Dutch Revolt is mainly about: the Causes of the Revolt. So in this lesson you will learn WHY the Dutch Revolt started.

Here you always see which Age we are studying.

This series of Lessons is about the 5th age: The Time of Discoverers and Reformers

Because the Dutch Revolt is a BIG subject, we split it up in 3 lessons.

This is the first (1) lesson about the Dutch Revolt.

All the lessons about this Age are numbered.

So this is lesson 7 of the Age of Discoverers and Reformers

The subject of this lesson is: The Dutch Revolt.

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The 2nd slide always shows you the symbol of the Age you are studying.

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The next slide tells you what you need to learn in this lesson: 

the main questions. This is a VERY IMPORTANT slide.

When you are learning for a test you can check yourself by answering these questions.

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After this the actual lesson begins.

Most information slides are followed by one or more questions.

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At the end of each lesson you will find an overview of TERMS (word duty) you need to learn. In most cases the meaning of these words can be found in the 

Glossary of your textbook (p 118)

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Finally, the main questions are shown again at the very end.

You can use them to make your own summary.

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So, this is what a complete lesson may look like. 

The black slides are questions.

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2. the use of colours

This year you will do most history lessons in LessonUp.

If you are not familiar with this program, you can learn how it works in this lesson.

READING 

Slides with a yellow background are 

the TEXT pages.

This means that you must read the texts carefully before you continue to the next slide.

These are the texts that you must learn.

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READING 

Pages with a green background are 

SOURCES or extra information.

The texts in the green pages support the yellow pages. 

You do NOT need to learn the green pages for a test.

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LEARNING 

Pages with a red background are 

THINGS TO LEARN, 

like difficult words, dates and names.

You will also see this symbol:                       

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QUESTIONS 

Pages with a purple background are 

questions.

You must always do these questions. They help you understand the texts and sources.

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NOTES 

Pages with a blue background mean

that you must write something in

 your NOTEBOOK.

You will also see this symbol:

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3. levels of questions

This year you will do most history lessons in LessonUp.

If you are not familiar with this program, you can learn how it works in this lesson.

When you start with a lesson, you can see that there are three types of questions.

basic level: these questions just check whether you have read (and understood) the text carefully. If you fail these, you just didn't read the text.....

deeper level: these questions are more difficult. Sometimes the answers are not found litterally in the text. You actually have to use your brain more...

challenge level: this is for you to show what you are really capable of. These questions ask you to make connections, show insight, look up extra information, understand sources.

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4. what the teacher sees...

This year you will do most history lessons in LessonUp.

If you are not familiar with this program, you can learn how it works in this lesson.

As a teacher, I can click on a student and see right away how 

he /she has done the lesson.

That's not just to check if you have done your homework, but foremost to see if you understood the lesson, or 

which questions you find difficult, so I can help you out.

Sometimes lazy students just click an answer, and if it is wrong, they click the next answer, until they have it right.

But I can see how many times you tried, and only the first attempt (incorrect) will be shown here.

So this is how it is supposed to be.

Only 1 correct attempt after 15 seconds of reading the question.

(as you can see this is a basic level question, so every student should be able to do this right)

Finally, I can see all your answers to the open questions.

Of course I will not only check if the answer is correct, but also your English writing....