If you're tired of having students write essays, but still want to demand in-depth thinking and elaboration, you can try something Liz Rodock tried -- to great effect: have them annotate a PDF.
And then her students used Microsoft Word to fill in the form and draw graphs:
Then they used Preview to annotate -- they drew lines for the graphs, added text for the blanks, and inserted "sticky notes" to explain them:
Students may write more than they expect, because they won't feel as constrained by an "essay" format, they won't have to organize the pieces into a coherent whole (it's already organized)-- and most of their writing is hidden while they're working on it.
For a blank iceberg form to use in your class, click here: (Iceberg Diagram Fillable.docx View Download)
(This is an image of a fantastic analysis created by Stefanie Tedards -- see the original here: View Download)
Liz had her students start with a basic, but blank, Systems Thinking Iceberg DIagram (available here):
Then they used Preview to annotate -- they drew lines for the graphs, added text for the blanks, and inserted "sticky notes" to explain them:
Students may write more than they expect, because they won't feel as constrained by an "essay" format, they won't have to organize the pieces into a coherent whole (it's already organized)-- and most of their writing is hidden while they're working on it.
For a blank iceberg form to use in your class, click here: (Iceberg Diagram Fillable.docx View Download)
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