Instead of having to customize your cube every time, you can create the cubing activites for students, place the concept on the whiteboard/slide and just have them roll the dice for the task. Ensure you go through the verbs in the prompt so
Prompt for this cube required modifications (face orientation, sensitivity). The prompt I began with is below:
Create a cube with six sides with the following descriptors Describe it * Compare it * Associate it *
Analyze it * Apply it * Connect it * Illustrate it
* Change it * Solve it* Question it *
Rearrange it * Evaluate it * Relate
it to something else * Contrast it * Investigate
it * What is the significance of it? * Put it in
historical perspective * What are the
cause/effects of it * Cartoon it * Tell the parts
of it * Argue for/against it * Because there are more than six options, when students "roll the die" it will randomize different options for them. Use black and white and make it look like a die when rolled
Call it a Learning cube.
Prompt for Gemini Canvas based on Cube created by EDUC 4350 students
Create an interactive die with the following instructions on the sides. 1: Create a newspaper headline and story about the Great Depression. What would be happening daily during this time? 2: Define the Great Depression from the Canadian Encyclopedia. 3: Listen to the Living Through the Great Depression radio clip. What do you find is the most shocking information you learned from it? 4: Compare the price of groceries from the Great Depression to groceries in modern day:
Bread
Eggs
Chicken breast 5: Make a paper popper (see youtube video) 6: Relate the Great Depression to the 2008 depression. Create a venn diagram and give four reasons how they are similar and different.
Ensure a randomized output.
Learn more about the Cubing DI strategy here
Having physical dice on hand is a very good kinesthetic option.