Sequencing the Facts!

 The article source is from the website Newsela. My group's current event was about bombing asteroids to protect our world. The method that was used for our current event was sentence strips. We used sentence strips to implement sequencing the facts of the current event article. Recipes, dance moves and the scientific method were to activate the student’s prior knowledge about sequencing of events. The students were also required to give other examples of sequencing events. This was defiantly beneficial to active the student’s prior knowledge in this way because the students will have a better understanding of the task that they have to do. I learned that it would be beneficial to read the article aloud to the class first. Most of the time, students do not read the article for homework or does not comprehend what they have read. If the article is read aloud to the class then all of the students will participate in the activity.

Personally, I had a fabulous experience with this activity. Sentence strips are defiantly my favorite method to teach sequential order to the students. It is fun for all of the students involved. Several times the students take this as a challenge to beat their classmates. This current event project taught me that it is important for the students to know what is going on with the world and environment around them. 


If I had to make this for a first grade class, I would use all of the techniques that I used above. To change this lesson for the six-grade class, I would give the students time to read the article silently in class. Then they will be divided up into the groups to work on the order of the sentence strips.  

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