What we know and what we want to know
The ideas for this lesson come from Values Clarifications: a Handbook of Practical Strategies for teachers
and Students (Simon©1972) Strategy Number 65
This lesson will be a starter lessons for most any subject I
will use Election Possesses.
Have students Brain storm individually and write on a
scratch paper or work sheet what do you know about the Election Presses? Local,
State, and National offices etc…(can be substituted for any unit or lesson)
After a few minutes have two students come up to scribe on
the board (two students are better because it will keep Ideas flowing without
as much interruption in writing. Have students share answers and write them all
down true or not. Clarification will come latter.
Once all answers are written, ask what don’t you know about
Election Process and make another list these will be in the forms of questions.
Have students organize the knows and don’t knows into
logical clusters and teacher talks about the different clusters and corrects some
of the misconceptions and assigns reports based on the lists created by the
class
Begin by looking in books if possible reserve time at the
computer lab or media center. Reports do
not need to be long one or two pages in order to answer the question …
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