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Rainbow 1 unit posted by a colleague. Post your rainbow ideas as a comment to this blog post. To “Rainbow” a unit, review the author’s design framework to get the idea of the basics of their design, then review each octant activity (hint: view it in Guidebook page). What you want to do is suggest resources or activities that would enhance or add value to the author’s design. Perhaps you know of a book or video that would enhance one of their octants. Possibly you thought about a different concept or a different connect activity as you were reviewing the design. Post a general comment on their overall lesson plan.
Example:
The Results of Weathering by Gerard Ban (rainbowed by Gary Rouse)
I liked your class about the changes caused by weathering. There are many ways to study this concept and see how things weather, but I will limit my suggestions to the following: In looking at your connect I thought it might also be good to have some students get something really hot and watch it dry out as another type of change caused by weathering. You asked them in perform to talk about what we can do to lessen the effect of weathering, yet this is the only place this new concept is addressed. It might be good to have them see some examples of this first, such as how ditches or the planting of grass can stop soil erosion.
My Rainbowing Comments:
ReplyDelete🌈Hi Lora, I took a look at your wheel and it seems like you have a pretty tight unit. All of the quadrants seem to flow effortlessly into each other while supporting the essential question. I think I would maybe add a guessing game with facial expressions on Quadrant Two Right or maybe have students do some kind of mime exercise that incorporates dance, hand movements, and facial expressions. So they would mime acceptance, rejection, confusion and lack of understanding, and then open communication and listening etc. I think this would help students to imagine in their heads what active listening and what real communication should look like and what simple components are needed. I would ask the question... what makes communication hard? What causes barriers? What do these barriers look like conceptually. I guess they could journal about them or even do a final presentation in Quadrant Four Right on how to celebrate overcoming these barriers by doing some type of drama or acting showing the start of a conflict all the way thru the steps of conflict resolution to finally being able to celebrate restoration of communication at the end. Maybe miming, dancing, doing hand and facial expressions would add that dramatic effect. Just a thought. Great job on your wheel and congratulations🎉