Summary
Students start with facts, then make groups, and then work with a single statement about Christmas Trees.
- Students jot down as much information about Christmas Trees as possible. I recommend post-its or having them type this so that they can move this information around in the next step.
- Then, they group that information into three to five groups of their choosing. The groups should stay unlabeled until the very end of this step.
- Then, students pick from five Big Ideas (or write their own) that they think best fits the information about Christmas Trees. They explain their thinking and produce a paragraph, an essay, a presentation, or whatever you'd like!
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