English/Language Arts
Explore reading strategies
Finding the answers to this Minute’s quiz is going to take some persistence and some solid reading strategies. Take a moment to review strategies students may need to be successful, like re-reading the text, identifying and locating key words, and reading different texts to compare, contrast, and confirm information.
Explore text structures - question/answer
Author Siy has constructed a Minute that informs by using a unusual test structure. Next time your students have some content to learn, ask them to demonstrate their knowledge by designing test questions - and answer sheets - for their peers.
STEM
Explore physics - gravity, projectiles and velocity
The seemingly simple test laid out in this Minute covers an enormous range of teaching possibilities in the STEM classroom. You could look at angles, arcs and parabolas to discover how to measure and predict the path of falling objects. You could play with measuring speed and velocity. Or maybe you should take them to where it all begins - with Newton’s Laws of Motion. Review those and then find experiments that make sense for your students - you can find great ideas here, or here, or try out this Projectile Simulator. The possibilities are, well, endless!
Research Skills
Explore research process
This is the perfect Minute to read and challenge your students to design a strategy for discovering the answers to the questions posed by Author Siy. Before they search for answers, partner up and discuss the best approach and why. Once they have jotted down their plan of attack, let teams go head-to-head to answer the questions. When all teams have completed the assignment, compare not only answers, but also process. Which strategies were the fastest? The most accurate? Which did not work at all? Asking students to regularly design and assess research strategies makes them BETTER RESEARCHERS!
Explore reading strategies
Finding the answers to this Minute’s quiz is going to take some persistence and some solid reading strategies. Take a moment to review strategies students may need to be successful, like re-reading the text, identifying and locating key words, and reading different texts to compare, contrast, and confirm information.
Explore text structures - question/answer
Author Siy has constructed a Minute that informs by using a unusual test structure. Next time your students have some content to learn, ask them to demonstrate their knowledge by designing test questions - and answer sheets - for their peers.
STEM
Explore physics - gravity, projectiles and velocity
The seemingly simple test laid out in this Minute covers an enormous range of teaching possibilities in the STEM classroom. You could look at angles, arcs and parabolas to discover how to measure and predict the path of falling objects. You could play with measuring speed and velocity. Or maybe you should take them to where it all begins - with Newton’s Laws of Motion. Review those and then find experiments that make sense for your students - you can find great ideas here, or here, or try out this Projectile Simulator. The possibilities are, well, endless!
Research Skills
Explore research process
This is the perfect Minute to read and challenge your students to design a strategy for discovering the answers to the questions posed by Author Siy. Before they search for answers, partner up and discuss the best approach and why. Once they have jotted down their plan of attack, let teams go head-to-head to answer the questions. When all teams have completed the assignment, compare not only answers, but also process. Which strategies were the fastest? The most accurate? Which did not work at all? Asking students to regularly design and assess research strategies makes them BETTER RESEARCHERS!
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