Summary
To guide student reading once they have chosen a biography or memoir, students will generate their own questions about their book’s subject, identify that subject’s contributions and value to society, and synthesize the online sources they use to answer these questions in a multimedia visual display. Using a variety of websites, databases, pictures, and videos, students will create a Popplet to display the sources that have led them to the answers of their own inquiries.
TIPC Ratings
Target: The teachers designed a challenge promoting synthesis of resources and the completion of an authentic task. Teachers facilitated a lesson in which students were engaged in research and using information fluently. Students constructed their own questions to guide research, assembled and synthesized information in an authentic task, and they used Popplet to display and interact with information.
Though this lesson could be modified to include Communication and Collaboration, the lesson as described does not focus on this category.
Though this lesson could be modified to include Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, the lesson as described does not focus on this category.
Though this lesson could be modified to include Creativity and Innovation, the lesson as described does not focus on this category.
Student Artifact
