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== Lesson 1: |
== Lesson 1: Strategic thinking with Slider Puzzle== |
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#From the Home screen of your XO, '''click on the MaMaMedia icon'''. |
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#Tell a favorite story to your class. You can also use a picture book if one is accessible. |
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#'''Open the Slider Puzzle''' activity '''from the MaMaMedia Activity Center'''. |
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#Take time to illustrate/draw the story that has been told or read. Use whatever you have to draw with -- paper, sand and a stick, or the Paint program on the XO Laptop. Once you have completed your drawings, explain what you have drawn. |
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#Click on and '''explore the puzzle image subject list on the right''', then click to choose one image to solve. |
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#Every story contains these elements: |
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#'''Explore how the puzzle works'''. Click on a tile with the mouse to move it into the vacant square. Note that you can move the tiles up, down, right and left, but you cannot lift them off the board. |
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*Setting (the place where a story happens) |
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#'''Change the number of squares from 9 to 12 to 16'''. Observe how the game becomes more challenging when you select more squares. |
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*Characters (the people or creatures in the story) |
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#'''Click on “Shuffle” to mix the tiles up in a new way'''. Click on Solve to see the picture in its complete state. |
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*Problem (the issue that the characters must face) |
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#'''Work in pairs or independently to solve a 9-tile puzzle'''. If you solve your puzzle quickly, try solving one with 12 or 16 tiles. Walk around and '''help other students''' who are still solving their puzzles. |
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*Resolution (how the characters handle the problem, and what happens to them as a result.) |
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#After playing with the puzzle for a while, '''write down some of your problem-solving strategies or questions'''. |
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#Identify each of these elements in the story that you just read/told. |
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#'''Discuss each person’s strategies and questions as a group'''. Identify what strategies worked and what didn’t work. Discuss the things you found difficult or frustrating. |
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#Now Brainstorm a list of interesting settings (i.e. home, the beach, school, church) |
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#'''Create charts with shared experiences, differences and similarities'''. One student can record all the students’ ideas on the XO Laptop. |
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#Brainstorm a list of interesting characters (i.e. princess, monster, child, teacher) |
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#Brainstorm ideas about problems and resolutions. Think of problems or resolutions that have come up in stories you know, or that have come up in your life or imagination. |
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#Record all of these ideas to spark your imagination for new stories. Use the Write program on the XO laptop. Create a chart or on poster paper to hang in the classroom. |
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#Act out a story based on selected story elements. Pick a setting, a few characters, a problem and a resolution from the lists you created. Allow volunteers from the class to act out a story from this. Just make it up as you go along. |
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Latest revision as of 21:35, 18 July 2007
Lesson 1: Strategic thinking with Slider Puzzle
- From the Home screen of your XO, click on the MaMaMedia icon.
- Open the Slider Puzzle activity from the MaMaMedia Activity Center.
- Click on and explore the puzzle image subject list on the right, then click to choose one image to solve.
- Explore how the puzzle works. Click on a tile with the mouse to move it into the vacant square. Note that you can move the tiles up, down, right and left, but you cannot lift them off the board.
- Change the number of squares from 9 to 12 to 16. Observe how the game becomes more challenging when you select more squares.
- Click on “Shuffle” to mix the tiles up in a new way. Click on Solve to see the picture in its complete state.
- Work in pairs or independently to solve a 9-tile puzzle. If you solve your puzzle quickly, try solving one with 12 or 16 tiles. Walk around and help other students who are still solving their puzzles.
- After playing with the puzzle for a while, write down some of your problem-solving strategies or questions.
- Discuss each person’s strategies and questions as a group. Identify what strategies worked and what didn’t work. Discuss the things you found difficult or frustrating.
- Create charts with shared experiences, differences and similarities. One student can record all the students’ ideas on the XO Laptop.