WeMap and a Shared Understanding of a Short Article

Today student read and shared understanding of a Wonderopolis article. I gave students a choice from any of the Wonderopolis articles from this week. They read their article of choice independently and then discussed it with a partner. Then we created one WeMap for each article. All students who read a given article wrote one thing they learned. It could have been what they thought was most interesting, surprising, or important. Finally, students found a different partner who read the same article and explained to that person why they chose to write the fact.