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WRITING DIRECTIONS: THE GREAT CARD TRICK CHALLENGE PURPOSE OF ACTIVITY: Writing directions is often hard to keep kids engaged. This activity has been beefed up to keep kids engaged throughout the process Students will imagine that the company Extreme Magic has hired them to create a card trick using YouTube videos (all included in this PowerPoint) and a deck of cards. What student does not like a magic trick? Their tricks will be taught to one another through the written directions, and you

WRITING DIRECTIONS: THE GREAT CARD TRICK CHALLENGE PURPOSE OF ACTIVITY: Writing directions is often hard to keep kids engaged. This activity has been beefed up to keep kids engaged throughout the process Students will imagine that the company Extreme Magic has hired them to create a card trick using YouTube videos (YOU WILL NEED TO USE YOUTUBE TO FIND THESE VIDEOS. I HAVE THEM INCLUDED ON MY POWERPOINT VERSION) and a deck of cards. What student does not like a magic trick? Their tricks wil

PURPOSE OF LESSON: Students read and analyze using their thinking strategies to understand the main idea/theme and evidence/supporting details from the text. Students write the main idea/theme on one side of the cube, and the evidence/supporting details on the other sides. This makes students have to think really hard through a text and determine what is important from what is not. Students can then use their cubes as a graphic organizer to create a summary of the text. This really seems

PURPOSE OF ACTIVITY: Students can work together (cooperative learning), or by themselves to create directions that describe the process they took to create a balloon racer. Students create prototypes and write down their steps using a graphic organizer, so that they can revise their instructions with changes that they make during their thinking. Once they feel they have a good balloon racer, students then trade their graphic organizer with another group to see if the other group can replicate