Students can create visual text to demonstrate mastery. It’s not necessary to have your scholars write an essay or a report when they can create blog posts, infographics or videos instead.
Give them the guidelines and let them create. What do you need to see?
- amount of text
- number of images
- vocabulary or concepts to address
What does this look like across disciplines:
In an English class:
- Be a literary, scientific, or historical character sharing a defining moment when a choice you made touched the world forever.
- Visual response to fiction or nonfiction text.
- Create legends or tall tales of a literary character
- Tell about a person and what his or her life or work has taught us—or perhaps how his or her work or choices in life continue to touch our lives today.
- Develop myths from “what would happen if.”
- Create myths of “how things came to be” in your life, family, school, or business.
- Change a current event into a tall tale or myth.
- Develop a legend of a family member’s life or accomplishments.
- Create a fairy tale using something from your own life.
In a Science class:
- Show an animal’s habitat to support its diet.
- Dialogue as parts of the brain on memorable experiences with the body.
- Describe cell growth and division.
habitat and diet of a certain animal species or species family. - Create the storytelling journey of a leaf eaten by an earthworm. Make the facts come alive from beginning to end as if you were one of the digestive parts along the way.
- Describe bees and what you now realize about their contribution or importance to our world.
- Show skeletal system growth, wear, strengthening, and deterioration.
In a Math class:
- Be a decimal point, sharing your journey of being misunderstood and needing to clearly make a difference in the world.
- Create a story, with characters, action, and character problems to solve, to illustrate the need for the concept and the particular use of the concept.
- Develop a scenario for which regression statistics is necessary, and no other statistical test will resolve the problem. Include statements of why no other statistical test will resolve the problem.
- Develop a scenario requiring linear algebra to resolve. Include statements of why no other approach will meet the needs of those in the situation.
In a History class:
- Be the youngest child of an immigrant family, highlighting the facts and emotions experienced.
- Create a character or cast of characters embedded in a time period, and tell the story through the characters.
- Compare and contrast the social norms of 19th century England with those of 21st century England.
- Compare and contrast Islam with Judaism.
- Dialogue with another person across other eras or time periods, sharing your perspective and lessons learned on issues and events.
- Compare and contrast the Obama Era with the Trump Era.
- Compare and contrast Roman architecture with Bavarian architecture, circa 20th century.
- Compare and contrast the art of different time periods.
