March Madness in the Classroom? The Madness of March is coming.
You can feel the frenzy of Cinderella stories and brackets busting. The Big Dance. The Road to the Final Four. Call it what you want, but for three weeks, the nation turns its eyes to the NCAA tournament, falling in love with underdogs and holding its breath on each buzzer-beating shot. Hoops hysteria begins on Selection Sunday, the night when millions are glued to ESPN, waiting to see which 68 tickets will be punched to the Big Dance. As teachers, we should create the same excitement, hope, and drama in our classes.
I do AP Lit March Madness, a journey to determine the best work of literature we’ve read all year. Toe to Toe: Wordsworth vs. Here’s how I set it up. Selection Sunday turns into Maker Monday in my class. I tell the students that we’ll spend portions of the next three weeks in our own March Madness, determining our own literary champion. Students are then divided into roles: Open Season This approach isn’t limited to literature. Be creative.
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I've often had my students create mind maps as an exercise in making visual connections between important concepts, events, and people in a unit of study. The following free tools offer good options for creating mind maps online. MindMup is a free mind mapping tool that can be used online, with Google Drive, and on your desktop. MindMup works like most mind mapping tools in that you can create a central idea and add child and sibling nodes all over a blank canvas.
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