What's In My Brain Lessons
Intriguing lessons based on the Concept Attainment model. Ask students to decide _why_ items are grouped into two different categories. *A Byrdseed favorite!*
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!
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: Owl vs Eagle
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of nocturnal vs diurnal animals.
What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent
What makes these clauses different?
Concept Attainment: Art
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of cubism.
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: 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: Austin vs Los Angeles
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of capital cities.
What’s In My Brain: Progressive vs Simple Tenses
Can your students puzzle out the differences between these two tenses - without any instruction!?
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: 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: 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: 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: 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.