One of my goals this year is to take lesson plans that I have done for awhile and give them a second look. Is there a better way to teach this? Is the question I am gong to ask myself especially with lessons that I have repeated over several years. The first lesson I want to look at is Origin Stories. After reflecting on what I do, I feel like my students walk away understanding one origin story really well and then the others fall short. In my lesson I ask each row to become a "mini expert," in one story then I create new groups and jigsaw the stories. My data shows they understand the one origin story they started with but lack any understanding of the other stories that were jigsaw in the group. Has anyone out there tried a better way to teach this important foundation concept of Big History?
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