What's In My Brain Lessons
These lessons are based on the Concept Attainment model from Jerome Bruner. We ask students to look for patterns and decide why items are grouped into two different categories. *A Byrdseed favorite!*
What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these types of figurative language - without any instruction!?
Run On or Not? – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these sentences - without any instruction!?
Concept Attainment: Walnut vs Clouds
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of living vs non-living things.
Concept Attainment: Hornet vs Tiger
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to arrive at the topic of invertebrates vs vertebrates.
Concept Attainment: Conductors
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of electrical conductors!
Simple or Compound Sentences – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences in these two types of sentences - without any instruction!?
Complex or Compound – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the difference between these two types of sentences without any instruction!?
What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?
What's the deal with these four sided polygons?
What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent
What makes these clauses different?
What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of nocturnal vs diurnal animals.
Concept Attainment: Art
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of cubism.
Writing Concept Attainment Lessons
For TeachersIn a Concept Attainment lesson, we give students examples and non-examples of a concept -- without telling them what that concept is!
Concept Attainment: Japan vs Jamaica
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of archipelagos.
What’s In My Brain: Pentagon vs Pentagon
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of regular polygons.
What’s In My Brain: May vs May
Students will determine when "may" is used for possibility and when it's used for permission.
What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum
Can students figure out the differences between sentences with past progressive and simple past tenses using the concept attainment model?
What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting
Can the concept attainment model make transitive and intransitive verbs interesting? In my experience, it sure can!
What’s In My Brain: Austin vs Los Angeles
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of capital cities.
Progressive or Simple Tenses – Concept Attainment
Can your students puzzle out the differences between these two tenses - without any instruction!?
What’s In My Brain: Crocodile vs Tree Frog
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Reptiles vs Amphibians.
What’s In My Brain: Coral vs Water Lilies
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Saltwater vs Freshwater Organisms.
What’s In My Brain: Narwhal vs Penguin
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Arctic vs Antarctic.
What’s In My Brain: Ball vs Book
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Kinetic vs Potential Energy.
What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Deciduous vs Coniferous.
What’s In My Brain: Italy vs Normandy
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Countries vs Smaller Regions.
What’s In My Brain: Spain vs Germany
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Spain vs Germany.