Telling the World What We Are Learning

The activity can be carried out in any subject, but what is described below has been prepared for chemistry. The activity takes place in two stages. Students first decide how to communicate what they are learning with the rest of the world. Students brainstorm and together select three or four projects. Students may have many good ideas: blogs, plays, board games, radio programmes, journals, songs, videos, etc. In this example, the class wanted to create a blog, a radio programme, and a board game about chemistry. Students then put their ideas into practice by enquiring into and investigating aspects of daily life related to the subject in order to create their outputs.

This activity can be used to articulate, deepen, and communicate learning that is taking place in any area of the curriculum. 

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Produce a meaningful output that expresses subject learning 

• Learn how to foster creativity and critical thinking in, for example, science

Web and Print

• Seven Steps of Creative Thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRD-4Tz60KE 

• Padlet (online bulletin board)

• Resources from the web page www.mindtools.com 

Other

• Big screen and computer to project the video.

• Computers with internet access for the information search and the writing and design of articles and the journal or other outputs

• Students may require additional resources depending on what project they select. This will need to be assessed and carefully managed.

Opportunities to Adapt Extend and Enrich

• A cross-disciplinary approach could be taken with links made to, for example, art and design for the illustration and layout of articles, graphic design of the blog, etc. or the project could have a wider scope, with students being asked to come up with creative outputs to communicate and connect what they have learned in multiple subjects

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kbJuESODzQzN93t1i7yn044K3I2zGn8LODxl4B5UKVY/edit?usp=sharing  

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-7aC5L1Ll34quW6Yks61g0DUA4RphP5Aar_tvTPwRBY/edit?usp=sharing 

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BYOix6WQJvVN3sr4pBcP-bvMTIeLjNRulJkCwU__wQA/edit?usp=sharing

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VUS4CHMVrLtqOX1thyj8YkVxc2WQYrMipgb91-PK65I/edit?usp=drive_link