Great

Minds On

What makes a team great?

What skills do they need to have?


Let's Read!

Learning Goals

  • I can express personal thoughts and feelings about what has been read
  • I can sort ideas and information to express my thinking
  • I can create multimedia artifacts to communicate and share my thinking
  • I can problem solve and work as part of a team

Let's Make!

There are plenty of artifacts we can create to share our learning!

How might you create a game that you need to play as part of a team?

5x5 Strategy

Use 5 different loose parts (five of each) - how might you create a game that requires you to work as part of a team in order to "win the game"?

How might you light up an Olympic torch?

How might you create your own Olympic ring themed inspired art?

How might you create a game of curling?

Reflect and Connect

Think about it:

What skills and competencies are students developing while learning?

How might we document, share, reflect and connect with our learning communities in order to drive thinking forward?

Create, reflect upon and share learning via a documentation panel or audit trail

How might this panel provide you more insight to what is happening in the learning environment?

How might this panel spark dialogue and discussion about teaching and learning practices?

How might this panel empower learners (students and teachers)?

How might you caption the learning? How might the students?

What might you continue to wonder in order to drive learning forward?

Document and share learning with a learning story

Please feel free to copy and modify the template!

Forest of Reading learning journals and badges

What if students documented their learning with a learning journal created with Google Slides?

What if students got badges for the skills they used through Forest of Reading learning opportunities?

Forest of Reading Learning Journal

Here is a Google Slide Deck that could possibly be modified and copied for students to showcase their learning.

Please feel free make a copy and modify for your own students.

Additionally, please find all the templates and pngs for the badges in the Google Drive folder below.