Lesson Prep & Preview Today’s Mustang Round-up lesson is focusing on the concepts of exclusion and inclusion and how they can change the climate of our learning community. “Perspectacles” is the title of the 6 minute video clip featured in today’s lesson. As a class you will briefly discuss Wayne Dyer’s quote on the first slide. Please keep this quote in mind as you view the video. (1-2 min.) View the video clip. (6 min.) While explaining the “Peel the Fruit” thinking routine, assign a student to hand-out two sticky notes per person. Extend thinking by using the thinking routine “Peel the Fruit.” You will view three separate templates. Each view, you will be asked to add your thinking on a sticky note. The sticky notes remain on the white board. As the template changes, you will be asked again to reflect and respond by adding another sticky note. On the final “peel the fruit” template, discuss what is at the “core” of today’s lesson, and as a class generate one-word themes. (10-12 min.) Share our third Bully Prevention Rule, and discuss with the group how this relates to including others. Have students think about and share how they can include classmates who are often alone. (3-4 min.)
"Perspectacles" When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~Wayne Dyer
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Peel the Fruit A Map for Tracking and Guiding Understanding Peel the Fruit is a map that uses the metaphor of ‘peeling the fruit’, getting familiar with the surface of something, seeking puzzles and mysteries to investigate, and pursuing these in various ways to arrive at core understandings. Getting Under the Skin Mysteries What puzzles and questions come up? Throughout: Reason with Evidence What makes you say that? Skin Describe What’s There What do you see and notice? Pose questions. Add sticky notes either around the skin or just under the skin. (Stick notes directly on the white board.) Why…? I noticed…
Peel the Fruit A Map for Tracking and Guiding Understanding Substance Make Connections How does this fit? Getting Under the Skin Mysteries What puzzles and questions come up? Throughout: Reason with Evidence What makes you say that? Skin Describe What’s There What do you see and notice? Teens and… Pose new questions. Add sticky notes in the flesh of the fruit. (Stick notes directly on the white board.) Why…? I noticed… What about…? Substance Consider Different Viewpoints What’s another angle on this? Bullies… Substance Build Explanations What’s really going on here?
Peel the Fruit A Map for Tracking and Guiding Understanding Substance Make Connections How does this fit? Getting Under the Skin Mysteries What puzzles and questions come up? Throughout: Reason with Evidence What makes you say that? Skin Describe What’s There What do you see and notice? Teens and… Capture the Heart and Form Conclusions What’s at the core or center of video? (Generate one word themes.) Why…? I noticed… What about…? Substance Consider Different Viewpoints What’s another angle on this? Bullies… Substance Build Explanations What’s really going on here?
How does this relate to our 3rd Bullying Prevention Rule? What can you do to try and include others?