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Busy hands and active minds
for quiet and self directed classroom behaviors...
Classroom Control of Behavior through Academics
Welcome to The KOFH web site!
KOFH PUBLISHING COMPANY has produced a complete line of educational products, K-12, which
keep students busy, working independently at their desk.
Students construct 3-D graphic organizers from fold-able paper printouts which the teacher has photocopied
and distributed.
These graphic organizers parallel the tradition course subject material found is their textbooks.
The
teacher becomes a facilitator for the Hands-on experience, and a moderator who explains the relationship between the subject
matter and the finished product the students are constructing.
While busy students use scissors and felt tips/crayons, etc, the teacher presents as
an Interactive Lecture, the content of what would normally be delivered in a more formal format. While
explaining relationships and definitions for the Key Words located on the Graphic Organizer, the whole
class actually hears these comments, and even tends to focus on the relevance of the graphics they are holding in their own
hands.
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These products contain Lesson Plan Templates that teachers photocopy and the students cut and assemble.
While the students are engrossed in the projects, the teacher interacts verbally by giving directions, and using the opportunity
for a lecture on the content that is presented in the guise of facilitating.
Click on the pictures and graphics here.
They are links to examples, explanations,
and applications of these many different Hands-on Educational Tools.
These interesting foldables Graphic Organizers do
amazing things in the classroom and inside the student's head.
Basically, it a graphic organizer. BUT the organization
is fixed, and though the lessons, the topics, even the different subjects across the curriculum, the same fixed organizer
is used to collect the details of the material.
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The Chemical Periodic Chart of the Elements is a 3-D Graphic Organizers that first represents the Chemical families and
their Group Number using five geometric solids that fit together. The Families around the outside of the Cube are
augmented by the 8 Group B Metals inside. But each of the five modules comes apart. Smaller geometric pieces are found
inside which organize graphically, the Non-metals, the Light Metals, and even the Electron Configuration Code, the Common
Radicals, and Nomenclature, etc.
The whole General Chemistry Course is paralleled by the information graphically represented on these 8 ever smaller parts,
one inside the next.
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3-D hands-on construction projects superimpose a repetitive, fixed graphic order over the content of each lesson:
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The lessons are in the form of photocopy ready templates, designed for student hands-on activity,
providing an Enactive Stage of lesson presentation. The Project Orientation implicit in a series of these lessons
on each topic necessitates Portfolios. Project Oriented Assignments inherently develops an Alternative
Evaluation using a Rubric that focuses upon Project Completions, attention to detail, and tests student comprehension
by one-on-one questions/answers during the construction activity.
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