Learning Leap

This is an extended anticipation guide for ecosystems and biomes. The statements are general and can be used with almost any biology textbook for the ecology unit. Anticipation guides are a pre-reading strategy with two decades of research behind them. They are an excellent tool to help activate prior knowledge as well as help students become actively involved as they read.

This is a slightly different form of a KWL chart that is designed to get students thinking about what they already know about a new topic. KWL stands for "What I Know, What I Want to Learn and What I Learned". It's a powerful tool many teachers use to help students hook onto a framework of knowledge they already have. They have something they can now hang their new knowledge onto. This short chart asks students to briefly fill in many different areas keeping them actively involved. It can be