This year my students and I have been doing a lot of talking about just how important it is to be doing thinking (especially higher-order thinking) and observing as they read. So, to play on that theme, we took a class session to brainstorm together just how similar spider webs are to thinking. Who doesn’t love a fun comparing activity, especially when it is a fall activity?
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How To Make Higher Order Thinking Spider Webs
In partners, students brainstormed about the idea that spider webs and thinking are similar. Then we created one class chart of ideas. I modeled to the class how to take our brainstormed ideas and turn them into a paragraph comparing the two topics. I was very impressed with the creative ideas and all of the higher-order thinking that occurred!
We then wrote our final drafts, glued them to the right side of a large piece of black construction paper (what size is that? 12 x 18?), and added spider webs. We created our spider webs out of glue and the fun, messy part — glitter (sorry to my school custodians). Some students even decided to add a creepy spider! We then added a title that I created ahead of time on colored paper for appeal. These pictures do not give justice to how wonderful their higher-order thinking activities turned out!
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