Students in Ms. Lewis’ Gifted 6th grade class applied their metacognitive awareness through a self-selected project that incorporates analogical thinking. The first phase of the unit includes lessons on analogies, and students must compare their personalities through critical thinking to seemingly dissimilar ideas. For example, they are asked “Which are You More Like, a computer or a quill pen?” and must analyze their personality to see which object is more similar to them. The second phase of the unit includes students taking online learning style inventories to gain awareness of how they learn best. The final assessment piece is a product self-selected and created by students that must reflect one’s own strongest area of multiple intelligence and also demonstrate mastery knowledge of analogies. Take a look at a few of the projects submitted by Ms. Lewis’ students:
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Click on each picture to view student’s examples of analogies
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