Unit 1 Lesson 3 Unplugged Neural Networks. Teens are still children

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There was some confusion with the instructions. But I did figure it out. The assignment could use some fold lines printed on the paper.

It was not effective for me. Anecdotally, when you tell children to leave the paper face down and show no one, they immediately flip it over and pass it around. When told not to unfold the paper, they immediately flip it over to see what you told them not to look at.

Is this just my kids?

Alternately you could

  1. have a separate sheet of sentence starters that can be cut into strips and kept secret by the teacher.
  2. Remove the sentence starter from the worksheet itself.
  3. The first student in each group is allowed to see a random sentence starter by the teacher and is told not to reveal it. That student adds two words to the worksheet.
  4. Each following student adds a word. No folding needed.
  5. The sentence can then be read in its entirety without everyone knowing how it started.
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My kids (9th graders) seem to be restrained enough to keep the papers face down and hidden… I did make a pretty big fuss about it before handing out the papers in a somewhat silly and overly dramatic way.

I appreciate having the alternative ideas though! I might do option 1 next round… just in case.