A few months back Mr. Saenz gave us a website to use as a resource for Exhibition. It is the "This I Believe" based on the NPR program of the same name. After searching the website, I found a great resource for the facilitators wishing to implement this program as a writing tool.
Last year when we decided to change the Exhibition Theme from, "How we Organize Ourselves" to "Who we Are" I found that children struggled with beliefs and values and I found the same struggle when we completed the same theme to study government.
We looked up beliefs and values in the dictionary and defined them. The "This I Believe" had a great resource for breaking down values and it had a list of values that the children could choose from.
We broke up the long list of values amongst 7 groups and each group took 4 values. Each group wrote down what they believed the values to be, looked them up in the dictionary for clarification, and illustrated them to demonstrate comprehension. Each group presented their four values to the class. Everyone wrote down the definition for each of the 28 values listed in an abbreviated form. I think each student got a better understanding of what these values meant.
Last year when we decided to change the Exhibition Theme from, "How we Organize Ourselves" to "Who we Are" I found that children struggled with beliefs and values and I found the same struggle when we completed the same theme to study government.
We looked up beliefs and values in the dictionary and defined them. The "This I Believe" had a great resource for breaking down values and it had a list of values that the children could choose from.
We broke up the long list of values amongst 7 groups and each group took 4 values. Each group wrote down what they believed the values to be, looked them up in the dictionary for clarification, and illustrated them to demonstrate comprehension. Each group presented their four values to the class. Everyone wrote down the definition for each of the 28 values listed in an abbreviated form. I think each student got a better understanding of what these values meant.
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