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.
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!
Create A Civilization: Pick The Location As we begin the project, students first consider where on earth their civilization will begin.
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 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 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 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.
