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Minds On
Minds On
What do you see in this picture?
What might have happened?
Why did it happen?
What might happen next?
Let's Read!
Let's Read!
Learning Goals
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 a structure to withstand the force of “nature”
- I can create multimedia artifacts to communicate and share my thinking
Let's Make!
Let's Make!
There are plenty of artifacts we can create to share our own stories!
There are plenty of artifacts we can create to share our own stories!
Many thanks to my colleagues and friends @glitterqn15, @MzMollyTL and @jenabee_c for these ideas!
How might you create a stable structure out of loose parts in order to withstand a storm?
How might you create a stable structure out of loose parts in order to withstand a storm?
What materials might you need to use?
How might you experiment to make it stable?
How might you test it?
How might you re-purpose or transform a branch after a storm?
How might you re-purpose or transform a branch after a storm?
How might you use a green screen app to imagine/transform a branch?
How might you use a green screen app to imagine/transform a branch?
Use the Stikbot app to place yourself in a tree. What does the tree turn into based on your imagination? Take another photo of you in the same position in the visual version of your imagined place.
How might you help a neighbour in need?
How might you help a neighbour in need?
Unplugged: Create a grid with masking tape on the floor with branch obstacles. Help Mr. Frank, the workers in shiny coats, and other neighbours collect the branches and put orange cones on the sidewalks.
Code a Robot Helper: Using the same grid, code a Dash, Ozobot or Sphero robot to go to all the spots to collect the branches. How might you build a trolley for the robot to carry the load?
How might you freeze an object and study what happens to it?
How might you freeze an object and study what happens to it?
Freeze various objects in water, or with a coating of water, or just on its own in a freezer. Observe what happens after a day or two. What happens when it melts? How does it alter or change?
Reflect and Connect
Reflect and Connect
Think about it:
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
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
Document and share learning with a learning story
Forest of Reading learning journals and badges
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?
Here is a Google Slide Deck that could possibly be modified and copied for students to showcase their learning.
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.
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.
Additionally, please find all the templates and pngs for the badges in the Google Drive folder below.
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