Now, don’t get us wrong, ALL of the protocols are AH-MAZING! Yet, in this post we chose two of our favorites to discuss how we will use them in our 3rd grade class and in our High School History class. The two #EduProtocols that we chose to discuss are Great American Race EduProtcol (Chapter 19) and Cyber Sandwich EduProtocol (Chapter 20). Also, we didn’t want to give everything away, because this book is a MUST HAVE on your summer reading list.
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GREAT AMERICAN RACE PROTOCOL
This activity requires students to create one google slide (within a shared deck) about a specific topic (person, event, place, term, etc.) without naming the actual topic. The second half of the activity requires teams to research and determine the topic for each slide. This puts all of the ‘heavy lifting’ on the students but brings the energy of competition into the classroom!
STEPH
I am loving the competitive edge that this protocol brings to the table! My students thrive on competition - and I’m excited to bring this into my repertoire next school year!
I can’t wait to use this for introductions to information - what an amazing way to quickly create a slide deck of information about a topic in class -- WWII leaders, New Deal Programs, Supreme Court Cases -- after the ‘race’ these can be used as class reference tools!
In the beginning, I know my students will need heavier scaffolding and I plan to use this protocol without heavy content at first.
Another cool side note -- the variation using Google Maps/Google Earth is something Jessica and I learned about at MOREnet in 2016 and it was a BLAST!
JESS
I love this EduProtocol! When reading about the Amazing Race my mind was going crazy with ideas on how to use it with my 3rd graders in every subject area.
This would be great to check for prior knowledge before a lesson and then use as a formative assessment at the end of the lesson by reusing the slide deck.
I plan to use this EduProtocol for all subject areas next year. At first, I will have to create the slide decks, yet a few months into the year I will expect my 3rd graders to be creating the slide decks themselves.
Another way I plan to use the EduProtocol is as a first week activity where the students will create an “About Me” slide and we will guess who the slide is about.
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CYBER SANDWICH PROTOCOL
This is a great tool for collaboration and requires students to research, compare, contrast, teach and ultimately create a written explanation on a predetermined topic. Students will work with a partner - each partner will become an expert on one side of a topic that will compare/contrast with the other side (think, the North and the South during the Civil War). After researching, partners will work together to create a venn diagram synthesizing what they’ve learned into one diagram. Using that shared venn diagram, each student will then write their own paragraph based on the information learned.
Don’t forget to have students share what they’ve learned with someone (another group, the whole class, etc.)
STEPH
I’m so excited to use this tool in the classroom and get my students writing more! This requires students to truly collaborate since both students rely on each other for their final product.
I could use Google Slides and have each student’s individual work be their own deck - but link both of their decks to the same venn diagram so they must speak with each other during the second step and then write on their own during the writing step (thank you technology)!
There are so many things that can be compared and contrasted, this certainly could be used every week or so (because I’m on block scheduling) to build great collaborators and writers. I would begin the year providing students with the sources to complete their step 1 research, but by the end of the year my high school students should be citing their sources and sharing those reliable sources with their partner to be cited. Oh, the possibilities!
So, what will we compare? The United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War (break it down to spy agencies, space programs, types of government, types of economies.. The list goes on), Reconstruction Plans, candidates for presidential elections, Angel and Ellis Island - and the list goes on. Just writing this post has me ready to go plan for August!
JESS
First of all, when I first started reading this EduProtocol, I was thinking “How in the world am I going to use this with littles?”
Then this…
After every EduProtocol the authors have a section titled “Adapting for Littles”. BEAUTIFUL! After reading this section then I was like “YAAAS” and started thinking of ideas for next year.
I will definitely use this in ELA class to compare and contrast book characters to movie characters, one character to another character, an item in the book to a real life item, settings, etc. The possibilities are endless!
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As you can see, this book has got our creative juices going! We are both so thankful that we picked up this book and now have it in our teacher toolbox! Comment and share some ideas you gained from one of these protocols!
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