Today I’m sharing a great hook activity that also effectively previews content and activates prior knowledge. And it’s drop dead simple.
The basic idea of Discrepant Event Inquiry is to present your kids with a puzzling, paradoxical, or discrepant event or story. Students ask questions, pose hypotheses, analyze and synthesize information, and draw tentative conclusions while [...]
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The backpack from H-E-double hockey sticks
Posted in books, curriculum, education, school reform, tagged curriculum, education, history tech, textbooks, wiebe on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was minding my own business this morning, drinking the first cup of coffee and cursing the Wichita Eagle newspaper delivery guy under my breath when – BAM!
Huge thud behind me.
It was my son’s backpack. Adidas brand, high quality, stop-rip nylon, multiple pockets, adjustable straps. And the third one he’s gone through this year. Adidas [...]
I gotta read The Game of School
Posted in 21st century skills, books, change, education, learning, teaching, tagged 21st, 21st century skills, education, history tech, school, wiebe on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been intrigued by the emails, PLN messages and blog posts floating around about the latest edubuzz book, The Game of School by Robert Fried. Dr. Scott McLeod over at Dangerously Irrelevant has been posting quotes from the book and one caught my eye this morning.
We have opted not to create schools as places [...]
Kitzu – 21st century construction paper
Posted in 21st century skills, digital literacy, digital storytelling, historical thinking, history, lesson plans, primary sources, technology integration, tagged 21st century, digital storytelling, history, history tech, lesson plans, primary documents, primary sources, wiebe on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Way to go, Stacy Deeble-Reynolds at the Orange County Department of Education! Stacy and others have put together a very cool tool for teachers of all content areas and grades but especially social studies educators.
Called Kitzu, the site provides some very useful stuff if you or your kids are working to put together multimedia projects.
Students [...]
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