We made this Nativity Silhouette for Christmas in our Sunday school class this year. The kids really loved making it, and several parents actually thanked us for it, so I'd say it was a huge success! It is so simple yet so lovely. The true meaning.
Mr. Potato Head Building Variation. Take pictures of Potato Heads with an iPad. Students can scroll through pictures to choose Potato Head. Have the students make matching potato heads. Goals - requesting, WH questions, describing, sentence building
Bloom's Taxonomy / new teacher evaluations require evidence of lesson planning for higher level thinking ~ I like thinking of it as a ladder and not a pyramid. All students can get to the top, with a pyramid it feels like only a few can.