1) to practice critical thinking and information literacy

2) to gain insight into the topic and examine one's own sleep patterns

3) to practice 21st-century skills

Step 1: To prepare for answering the EdPuzzle questions, watch ONE SECTION of this 19 minute TED talk on SLEEP with English subtitles turned on. 

JIGSAW ACTIVITY: 

PART 1: Ask your teacher to divide the TED talk into 4-5 fragments and assign each fragment to a group of 4-5 students. Each group will watch the assigned fragment and select 5-6 difficult words from that fragment to teach their classmates. 

PART 2: After watching the fragment and selecting the words plus their definitions, each group creates a 75-100 word summary of THEIR fragment of the TED talk.

PART 3: Ask your teacher to rearrange the groups, so that in each new group there's 1 person that has watched fragment 1, fragment 2, fragment 3 and so on. 

PART 4: Based on the jointly written summary of that fragment, each student RETELLS the gist of the TED talk content and teaches the group the 5-6 new words from his/her fragment. Naturally, students will follow the order of fragment 1, fragment 2, fragment 3 and so on.

Step 2: Watch the TED talk in Edpuzzle mode and answer 12 questions. You'll surely score 100%! Edpuzzle - sleep is your superpower

OPTIONAL EXTRA INTERCULTURAL MILE: Try one of the following:

• Discuss your sleep patters with a partner from another school/country. In what ways could you help each other reach your sleep goals?

• With your partner, jointly write a journal entry reflecting on your sleep patterns and whether they differ because of varied cultural backgrounds. Write 100-150 words.

• Jointly plan a HEALTHY SLEEP campaign amongst your classmates in your respective schools. What tools would you need? What steps could you take? How would you organize it and actually conduct it? 

Reflect and analyze your own sleeping patterns.

THINK: 

• Are your own sleeping patterns in accordance with M. Walkers' descriptions for healthy sleeping patterns? 

• What can you do to increase the quality of your sleep? 

• What are your thoughts on the matter?