Creative Minds – A unit built on global connections and student agency

Creative Minds – A unit built on global connections and student agency

At the end of last year, when I choose to revamp my Creative Minds G6 English-Humanities unit (read more about it here), I was excited at the prospect of making the unit more grounded and relatable to my students. At the same time, I wanted my students to choose their own paths of inquiry according to [...]

Digital Stories for Conceptual Understanding

Digital Stories for Conceptual Understanding

I teach an integrated class of English Language Acquisition-Humanities in Grade 6. In our first unit, we use digital storytelling as a medium to assess the students' conceptual understanding in Humanities. In this unit, the students expand their understanding of how time, place and space (key concept) shape and give meaning to their identity (related [...]

Playing with Concepts

Playing with Concepts

Connections. It is all about connections. As we know, learning only happens when you can make connections between what you know already and new information. So, as I was planning how to launch a new Individuals and Societies unit, I was considering different ways for the students to play and engage with the concepts and [...]