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Montage-a-Google - Grant Robinson Grades 0 to 12

Visual thinking and verbal flexibility come together in this clever site. SEE the power of words and their multiple meanings using this simple online tool. Enter a search term, as you would in Google, and click to see a montage of images that match your term. For example, if you enter "apple," you may see pictures of the fruit, a pie, and a computer...among a montage of 20 "apple" images. Why bother? Help your students build flexible thinking by letting them SEE the many ways one word or phrase can be "read." Whether reading, writing, or listening, they will start to see language in more dimensions and be more aware of their own vocabulary. Art teachers will love the visual display of plays on words.

If you teach about effective web searching, this site will SHOW the importance of word choice quite graphically!

This site requires FLASH. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.. Click "Launch Project" to start the game.
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In the Classroom:
Project this tool or use an interactive whiteboard to create a visual anticipatory set/activator for ANY term you plan to teach that day. As you introduce new vocabulary before reading, use this as one of your ways to build background before reading. In art class, demonstrate this tool, then ask your students to create their own drawing or photomontages for a word they think of...and ask others to guess it. Warning: this site is addictive. Make the link available on your teacher web page for student to use at every available moment, both at home and at school.

Once you are good at Montage-a-Google, try the reverse guessing game, Guess-the-Google, with your class.

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