What's In My Brain Lessons

Ask students to decide why items are grouped into two different categories. *A Byrdseed favorite!* Based on the Concept Attainment model of instruction.

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Writing Concept Attainment Lessons PD

In a Concept Attainment lesson, we give students examples and non-examples of a concept -- without telling them what that concept is!

 What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

 Concept Attainment: Walnut vs Clouds

Let's look at living vs non-living things.

 Concept Attainment: Conductors

Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!

 What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?

Which are trapezoids and which are not?

 Concept Attainment: Hornet vs Tiger

Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?

 Simple or Compound Sentences – What’s In My Brain?

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

 What’s In My Brain: Pentagon vs Pentagon

We're looking at regular vs irregular polygons.

 What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle

Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.

 Complex or Compound – What’s In My Brain

Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?

What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent

Some of these clauses are dependent and some are independent.

 Concept Attainment: Art

Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?

 Concept Attainment: Japan vs Jamaica

Is it an island or an archipelago?

 What’s In My Brain: Austin vs Los Angeles

We're looking at capital cities.

 What’s In My Brain: Ball vs Book

Let's look at Kinetic vs Potential Energy!

 What’s In My Brain: Crocodile vs Tree Frog

Is it a reptile or an amphibian?

 What’s In My Brain: Guinea Pig vs Potbelly

Let's look at misnomers - things with the wrong name!

 What’s In My Brain: May vs May

The word "may" can be used for possibility or permission. It's a modal auxiliary verb!

 What’s In My Brain: Narwhal vs Penguin

We're looking at the arctic vs the antarctic.

 What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum

We're looking at the past progressive tense and the simple past tense.

 What’s In My Brain: Progressive vs Simple Tenses

Will your students notice progressive tense vs simple tense?

 What’s In My Brain: Coral vs Water Lilies

Let's look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.

 What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree

Let's look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.

 What’s In My Brain: Spain vs Germany

We're looking at monarchies vs democracies.

 What’s In My Brain: Italy vs Normandy

We're looking at countries vs states (and other smaller regions).

 What’s In My Brain: Lion vs Bear

We're looking at carnivores vs omnivores.

 What’s In My Brain: Inventions vs Discovery

We're looking at inventions vs discoveries.

 What’s In My Brain: Paperclip vs Straw

We're looking at magnetic vs. non-magnetic materials.