Taught by a tech coach from L'Anse Cruise, MI
What happens in a typical essay assignment?
Copying and data dumping- either from the Internet or books
Relevancy- Students don't know the purpose of the learning.
What use is an essay? What happens to the content and learning after it is graded?
What should we do?
Introduce research and change the end product
Synthesize- force children to think deeply about their topic. All ages can do this!
Move them up Bloom's Taxonomy
Letter poster-
B is for Rosa Parks... Image with a word splash of B words about the topic. Letter pulled out of a hat.
If report... If it didn't .. Then it would
Students describe attributes. Can be a poem as well.
Geography Riddle-
Display on SMARTBoard and use the screen shade. Evens the playing field. Makes reluctant learners experts...
Mystery report. Whom am I?
Wanted Poster- showed triangle
Known Aliases
Wanted for
Attribute report.. I am TRex
For rent.. One Spider. Make the undesirable sound desirable
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