Going Beyond “Define These Terms In Your Own Words” "Define these terms in your own words" may contain depth and complexity… but it's neither deep nor complex!
What could we do with this Wax Museum event? How one might revamp a "Wax Museum" project into something that focuses more on thinking than product.
Matching Flowers and Pollinators How to add a couple of Analyze-level tasks to this Synthesize activity.
Create A Civilization: Governments My students, as part of their Create A Civilization project, had to select a type of government and explain its consequences. So I loved finding this list of all the different types of government.
Create Your Own Civilization Project Each year, my students created their own civilization to mirror what we were learning about Rome, China, India, and beyond.
Upgrading “Put The Events In Order” I often see this question on language arts and social studies worksheets: "Put these events in order." Yes, it's low-level, but the real problem is that it's a one-off. Let's make a sequence of questions about the order of events.
Create A Civilization: The River Most humans want to live near fresh water, which means that most civilizations settled near a river! Let's add a river to your students' civilizations.
Create A Civilization: From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers Now, let's see how your students' civilization transitions from hunters to gatherers.
Create A Civilization: The Flag Let's design a flag for your students' civilizations. But let's do it right! We'll dig into the language of vexillology, analyze real flags, form some opinions, and only then create our own flag.
Create A Civilization: Pick The Location As we begin the project, students first consider where on earth their civilization will begin.
