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Lesson Three: The Habitudes in Action
Games are a great way to further emphasize how the habitudes look in action. For instance, charades is a game everyone is familiar with. It requires many if not all of the habitudes: imagination, curiosity, adaptability, and so on. For this activity, I place several games and brain teasers that relate to a particular habitude on tables around the room. I have students rotate in small groups to each table, taking ten to fifteen minutes to play the game or solve the puzzles. As students play, I remind them to consider the specific habitudes they used to play the game well. Once the students have explored the available games, I have them share with the whole group the habitudes they believe would be most beneficial in order to play the selected game.
Using Games to Understand the Habitudes in Action • Pictionary™
• Catch Phrase™
• Guesstures™
• Cranium™
• Mastermind™
• Chess
• Risk™
• Checkers
• Life™
• Charades
Lesson Four: The Habitudes Posters
We’re all aware that a picture is worth a thousand words. Creating mental images and graphic representations of those images are effective ways to help students develop and extend their understanding of terms and concepts (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001). You might consider having the students add visual elements to their definitions. To get this activity started, I share the following descriptions of the habitudes with the students.
A Personal Visualization Exercise Think of the words, images, phrases, and symbols that come to mind as you consider these descriptions of the habitudes. Imagination: To a child, everyday unnoticed items can take on unique characteristics. For example, a cardboard box, a basket of unfolded laundry, and an individual blade of grass can become a fort, clothing continuedà
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After the word storm and gallery walk have been completed, the class can begin discussing how they would define each of the seven habitudes.
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