I have noticed something interesting in all of my classes this week: they all connect or overlap somehow. That's not because they are all a part of a block or the same department, but they all connect in some way. That got me thinking and I came up with a classroom idea that can advantageously work on the fact that there is almost always some connection between what you are learning in one class and learning in another and what you are seeing outside of school.
You could have the students every few weeks, bring in and share with the classroom something that connected to the lessons that they are learning within your classroom. The students would share those with the class in a short informative explanation on why they thought that connected to the classroom as well as hand in a short write up detailing what they tell the classroom. This explanation should include how the student came to the connection and why they think that it is important to the classroom, themselves, and/or others.
You could also have a single student share a connection everyday so that you have a different student sharing thought provoking ideas every day within the classroom that could be advantageous for the other students within the classroom in making connections to the material being learned in class and therefore possibly learn the material better than they would without that connection.
What do you think? How would you change this exercise within your classroom?
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