In this project, our 6th-grade students become experts about famous explorers by reading interesting and important facts about those explorers and adventures. They write their adventurer's biography with a Headline.
The Headlines routine asks students to reflect and synthesize as they identify the essence or core of their biography and their discoveries.
Later, they share their findings as experts with the other classmates. The others students ask questions in order to know and understand what mountain, ocean, river, new land or even planet the famous explorer discovered.
The routine asks a second question that involves how students' ideas of what is most important and central to the topic have changed over time: How has your headline changed based on today's discussion? How does it differ from what you would have said yesterday? Then they share their headlines with their classmates.
Student responses to the routine are written down with the explorer biography in our blog: https://kidblog.org/class/frank6th
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