In memory of September 11, 2001, several 8th grade classes completed a reflective project. Students viewed a 9/11 Memorial video, brainstormed their thoughts about the tragic events and developed interview questions to find out more information from an adult's thoughts and feelings from that important day in American history. (By the way, these 8th graders were only in 1st grade in September 2001.)
A visual portion of this lesson was the following word collage:
This was created using Wordle. Text from students' brainstorming sheets were entered into this online program. The larger the word = the more often it was written on students' papers. This visual representation serves as a powerful teaching tool that led to some dynamic and thought-provoking discussion. I learned a lot from these insightful 8th graders!
-Ms. Z
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