Running Through the Hallways: A Class Created #BYOD Scavenger Hunt
Even for an enthusiastic history teacher like me, the idea of conducting a class in which students learn generals' names, gruesome casualty numbers, and mark battle locations on a map seems a bit dry. Without added meaning, facts alone do not generate real thinking. It takes time to look up the factual information that, taken together, can help students understand why one side won and the other side lost any given war. In our case, it was the Civil War. Students would rather work together than trudge through the facts alone, and I would rather help them learn to collaborate with one another. Here's how we did it: Images from Lily's Blog . With this strategy, they learned about the major battles of the Civil War quickly without having to tediously look up all of the dry names, dates, and numbers themselves. They saved the information in their Evernote or Google Drive notebooks right on their devices as they carried out the scavenger hunt. Of course, I wanted ...