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Activity Types
Activity types encompass every activity that students engage in while at school with some form of learning objective attached. Activity types are used to define what sort of action students are performing while learning. For example, an activity type that is very common in classrooms would be "group discussion". "Group discussion" is classified as the activity type because no matter how or what students are talking about, the actual activity that they are engaging in is group discussion. Another example of an activity type could be "creating a timeline" and whether that timeline is used as a study tool or as a way to assess student knowledge doesn't impact that the activity type is "creating a timeline". Some other examples could include a field trip, think-pair-share, essay writing, etc.
Above is a Popplet that I made to display a possible lesson plan with three different activity types! The lesson surrounds mindfulness which was my topic for Genius Hour research! Check out my blog about mindful meditation by following the link. The activity types I selected were a poll, a timeline, and journaling. I selected a poll as an activity type because it is a fun, engaging minds on activity that gets students thinking about the topic at hand while giving them a visual representation of results. Timeline activities are similarly useful because they give students a visual outline of the activities they will be performing. Journaling is one of my favourite activity types because it is student driven and it encourages them to reflect on their personal experiences with the course work. All in all, these three activity types combine in a lesson successfully because they are fun, highly visual, and they encourage self-reflection and metacognition.
The resource that I found that I would have students use to create their poll about stress in my lesson plan is Poll Everywhere. This site allows students to create polls that show live results, so they would be able to immediately see how stress impacts individual's lives and why mindfulness is important. Poll Everywhere is a good fit for my lesson because of this.
The second resource that I would use in my mindfulness lesson in the timeline maker from Teachnology. This site lets you create horizontal or vertical timelines with up to nine events for free and without the need to sign up! This resource is perfect for what I wanted to achieve with my timeline activity because you can either fill in the events yourself online or print blank timelines and have students fill them in as they go!
The third and final resource I would use in my lesson is Google Slides where we would create a collaborative reflection ebook. Here students will each have their own slide and they will be expected to journal and reflect on their experiences with each mindfulness activity. This is an activity that I have done in my own courses and I have been impressed with its simplicity and effectiveness. This resource is also very easy to create and share with students since everyone can access Google Slides from their own Google account.
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