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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I printed out the origin story posters and placed them around my classroom and had my students do a gallery walk. Students then had to write one question or interesting point that they noticed about each of the stories and write it on a post it note. I then collected all the questions and created a Kahoot which we then did as a class. It can get a bit chaotic but the students do walk away with a reasonable understanding of the different origin stories.
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I printed out the origin story posters and placed them around my classroom and had my students do a gallery walk. Students then had to write one question or interesting point that they noticed about each of the stories and write it on a post it note. I then collected all the questions and created a Kahoot which we then did as a class. It can get a bit chaotic but the students do walk away with a reasonable understanding of the different origin stories.
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This is a fabulous way to introduce origin stories to our students combining visual, kinesthetic, and inquiry processes. It triggers their curiosity and predisposes them to learn more about it. I will adopt it next year. Where did you get the posters? Are they available in the website?
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Charles Rushworth , this is a great technique for origin stories. I have used it (or something similar) with other topics. But it never occurred to me to use it in this situation. Nice!