Activity 1: Speaking

Explain to students that they will think about what they already know (why the following photos are socially unacceptable or abnormal) by making inferences.

• Have students make inferences about the following pictures for practice. 

Retreived from: https://edtechbooks.org/-XpCj

Retreived from: https://edtechbooks.org/-dQei

• Encourage students to have when, why, how, what questions to expand on the knowledge they already have. 

• As an option, this website contains many pictures that have follow-up questions to elicit discussion about inferences: The Inference Collection - Once Upon a Picture 

Activity 2: Speaking

Ask students about the way that they think. 

• On the board, draw 5-7 dots. 
• Then ask students how many dots are on the board.
• Ask students to think about and share with each other how they counted the dots. 
•  For example, some students may count the dots individually, others may group the dots into sets of 2,3, or 4, and add them from there.
• Ask students how this may relate to other classes and how they think. 

Activity 3: Listening/Speaking

Below are links to two youtube videos, each describing different learning styles students may feel that they have. Choose one of the videos to watch as a class. Afterward, review the different learning styles: Discover Your Learning Style

https://youtu.be/_IopcOwfsoU 

or Learning Styles

https://youtu.be/u_rmUkj9g0k 

• Have students discuss with a partner what they feel their main learning style is.
•  If there is time, split students into groups based on their preferred learning style and have them present to the class one way that they learn. 
• For example, if someone feels they are a kinesthetic learner, they may talk about the importance of acting something out in order to remember it. 
• Challenge students to try learning in a way they have not tried before. Encourage students to utilize multiple learning styles. 

Activity 4: Listening

Play the following Ted Talk about Learning Styles from 0:17-8:14 Learning Styles and the Importance of Critical Self-Reflection and have students take notes on the important/main ideas.

https://edtechbooks.org/-WoiE 

•  They can also practice their note-taking skills by trying to write down examples or major details that support the main ideas. 
• Allow some time for students to think-pair-share something important from their notes. 
• Ask students what makes them excited about learning. In the Ted Talk, it talks about different ways of retaining information, and that you retain something that has meaning attached to it. 
• Lead a discussion talking about how to make material learned at school more meaningful to students.
• Is it meaningful to them? If not, what is? 
• Do students find that what is meaningful to them is something that they strive to learn about?