Summer time means summer reading! I love seeing what other people are reading, sharing what I've read, and getting book recommendations from friends. This morning I put together a very simple Google Site to display my summer reading, and thought I'd share a quick walk-through on how to do it!
Plan. Schedule. Print. Prep. Hide clues. Set locks. Test locks. Double-check clues. Breathe. Engage. Breakout! I won't sugarcoat this, the process of preparing for my first BreakoutEDU session took me a long time! (I used a pre-made game, Grammar Guru, it was great by-the-way!) However, every bit of time I spent printing, cutting, re-printing, scanning, and building was WORTH IT! Cyndi Childers, a 6th grade teacher at East Burke Middle School, was looking for something to get her students engaged, and I knew Breakout was just the trick. We ran two simultaneous games in two rooms, with Cyndi facilitating one room and myself in the other. We had groups about about 12-15 students in each room. The group size worked, it could have been smaller, but it really wasn't bad at all. This game has a progression of clue finding, one leading to another, so they were all somewhat forced to be working together on 1-2 clues at once, which I liked. This helped ensure that all/mo
Very cool idea, thanks for sharing! I like the idea of a teacher or librarian building a site like this to host current reads, and then teachers/students/collaborators could add their thoughts about the books in short snippet reviews!
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