Description

The Journal takes you with the author as she travles throughout the country. Then with the help of the journal and Observation pages, students complete the Activity pages including questions to research and discuss. Activities encourage critical and creative thinking.

Questivities™ include 14 Project activities, questions that engage students in high-level thinking and promote practice in research skills, incorporate learning styles and modalities, Bloom's Taxonomy, an assessment rubric, and alignment to the common core standards.

Set includes:
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Japan Questivities™

The Questivities™ (Questioning Activities) format consists of an interdisciplinary Project Activity and a series of Thinking Questions that stimulate creative and critical thinking and give practice in research skills. Students who answer the Questivities™ Thinking Questions before doing the Project Activity create projects that reflect higher levels of thinking, more creativity, and more evidence of research.

Questivities™ incorporate Learning Modalities, Learning Styles, Bloom's Taxonomy , and Multiple Intelligences. Questivities™ are written on a user-friendly one page form. The form has the following elements:

-Project Activity that provides the focus for the Questivities™
-Learning Modality
-Learning Style
-Bloom's Taxonomy Level
-Multiple Intelligences
-Assessment (Mini-Rubric and/or Criteria Card) for the Project Activity
-Questivities™ Thinking Questions
-Active Question

Components: Each packet of Questivities™ contains 12 completed Questivities™ correlated to national science/social studies standards plus 14 Project Activity Starters you can use to write your own. The Individualized Lesson Plan (ILP™) accommodates all learning styles and modalities and provides for a variety of student choices within the unit of study. The Assessment Criteria is a checklist for formative assessment, provides accountable, tangible criteria against which all types of products can be graded and evaluated, and helps explain and interpret project grades to parents and students. The Project Question focuses on the essential question(s) answered through doing the project activities. The Questivities™ Thinking Questions are starter questions. They will motivate students to brainstorm or research answers and think more deeply about the project activity. The Active Question promotes thinking skills. Students choose the activities they would like to do. The Criteria Cards are short, easily understandable lists of criteria that need to be included in a completed product or performance. Written by Carolyn Coil.

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Eye on Japan

Travel with the author as she shares her journal while touring throughout the country. Then draw on Student Activity Pages and Observation Pages that include additional information and provide students with questions to ponder, discuss, and answer. Activities encourage critical and creative thinking. The activities are based on, and are extensions of, the information found in the journal.

Journal Strategies
– Read it aloud to your students, sharing a short portion each day.
– Use it as a model for students as they learn how to write their own journals.
– Use it as a primary source for student research on Japan.
– Use it to show how fact and opinion are mixed in primary sources.

Student Activity Pages
– Use the activities for extension/enrichment in social studies or interdisciplinary units.
– Use individual reproducible activity pages in the differentiated classroom for learning center activities, anchoring activities, or alternate activities.
– Use the activities to teach higher level thinking skills.

Sample Pages
clc0167a.pdf
clc0167b.pdf
clc0167c.pdf
clc1080a.pdf
clc1080b.pdf