To continue with the website building unit plan, I decided to incorporate a Popplet into my curriculum. I’ve used Padlet and other similar tools in the past with pretty good success, but I had never tried to use Popplet before. I like the program because of the workflow and thought-cloud format and the ease of use. This tool could come in handy a lot for students to share information that is readily found in the book as well as to have some help with concepts that are difficult for some students, in this case, literary devices and figurative language. This is a student centered lesson because it affords students the opportunity to communicate and collaborate in the classroom and out, with or without the assistance of the teacher, who is there to facilitate the learning rather than direct it.
In this instance I will be using the Popplet to have students categorize different literary devices that they discover while reading the book Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. Students can add their own findings, modify or re-categorize what others found, make comments on what their peers found, etc. This will be an ongoing activity that will be incorporated into the daily activities throughout the novel study. The students will create concept webs using Popplet to show examples of the figurative language that they find in the book. Rather than creating an entire page of their website dedicated to this they can instead embed the tool into their website where it makes sense to them. I decided on this because of the students’ familiarity with the graphic organizer and how simple it is for me to read it. The purpose of a Popplet is to group ideas and create an easy-to-follow graphic. For the purposes discussed above, Popplet appears to be the best route, both in function and appearance, to achieve the objective I have determined for my students.
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