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Notes On Bloom 's Connection Puzzles

Decent Essays

Bloom’s Connection Puzzles

a. The course content I would use this strategy for would be in Social Studies. However, this concept could be applied to any area that would be taught in the eighth grade.

b. The learner will identify significant events, people, and documents in the major eras of United States history.

c. This selected activity would work well for this content because it will allow the students to explore different areas of a topic to help finish the puzzle. My thoughts are that this would be an ongoing project that might take several days, weeks, or even the entire year as the students explore United States history. My vision for this activity is to use puzzle pieces that are color coded. One specific color for who, what, where, when, why, and how. The start of any puzzle column could be any color and will be created by either the teacher or the student. The students and teachers will then finish the puzzle column with as many different puzzle colors that are possible that will help to explain the original puzzle piece. For instance, I might start with a who puzzle piece with the name Rosa Parks. The students would then search that person to find how further information to place on connecting color coded puzzle pieces. Another start might be a what with Stamp Act written on it. The students would then find out further information to finish the puzzle. Each column of the puzzle pieces would sit side by side to create a larger puzzle of our United

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