Thing Explainer
Time
4.7 hrs
Difficulty
Intermediate
Prerequisites
Creativity
Departments
Human Technologies
Authors
Ross Parker
Groupings
Individual
Pairs
Pairs
Minimum Year Group
None
Blurb
There is a quick man who draws funny things. Thing Explainer he likes to explain big ideas using only ten hundred simple words, and drawings. In this bit you get to act like the quick man.
License
This work is shared under the following license: Creative Commons BY-SA-NC
Outline
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Cross-Curricular Links Do not try and force this. What areas of other subjects might this reflect and/discuss language. For IB, links with ToK.
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| Teacher Reflection What was successful? What needs changing? Alternative Assessments and Lesson Ideas? What other Differentiation Ideas/Plans could be used?
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| Credits Any CC attribution, thanks, credit, etc.
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5 mins
Opening
Getting Started
- There is a quick man who draws funny things.
- In Thing Explainer he likes to explain big ideas using only ten hundred simple words, and drawings.
- In this bit you get to act like the quick man.
65 mins
Thing Explainer
What Is It?
- Thing Explainer is a book that grew out of his funny stick drawings.
- It started with one funny drawing called Up Goer Five, written using only the ten hundred most used words (touch it to see it bigger):
- Thing Explainer is like Up Goer Five, but much bigger and better and on paper.
- Here are some Thing Explainers, look at them for some time, learn how they work:
200 mins
You Do It Now
How To Thing Explainer
- Now it is your turn to make a Thing Explainer, on anything hard that you like.
- You can do it using paper and a writing stick or a computer writing stick.
- Use Simple Writer to check that you only use the ten hundred most used words.
- Good wishes, happy learning
10 mins
Closing
The End
- Save your work using an often used computer saving and sharing thing.
- Send your saving and sharing thing to this bit in this system.
- You have finished!
Links
- There is a quick man
- computer writing stick
- his funny stick drawings
- Up Goer Five
- Simple Writer
- Thing Explainer
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