Building a Nation
Concrete Sequential
Factual
Structured
Realistic
Practical
Abstract Random
Abstract Sequential
Describe
Restate
Review Observe List
Group Sort
Name
Acquiring
Match
Organize
Diagram
Collect
Plan
Graph
Measure
Classify
Categorize
Applying
Develop
Rate
Construct
Demonstrate
Devise
Prepare
Build
Report
Students sort man-made and natural
resources using a T Chart.
Students enlarge a map of their nation
using a gridding technique.
Each student writes a cinquain to describe the
nation.
Detailed
Hands-on
Students list types of maps.
Personal
Relating
Students make jot notes about
important geographic features of the
area selected for their nation.
Remember
Suppose
Tell
Choose
Share
Web
Students make an illustrated alphabet
book of their country, including city
names, lakes, flags, recipes, flower,
emblem, transportation, famous
buildings, or natural sites etc.
Relate
Express
Discuss
Interpret Imagine Pretend Suggest
Each student demonstrates understanding of
differences among types of maps by composing
rhyming couplets about each.
In groups, students design and construct an
advertising campaign for their nation.
Illustrate Compose Perceive Counsel Translate
Perform Assess
Each student, using the media of their
choice will express a period in the
history of their nation, including type
of government and human rights
record.
In groups, students create posters that illustrate
positive efforts to guarantee human rights in their
nation.
Interpretive
Flexible
Concrete Random
Activating
Feeling
Imaginative
Reading
Referencing
Students web choose one area of the
nation in which they will become the
spokesperson for their nation (e.g.,
education, justice, agriculture,
government, resources, etc.) and
will select a way to share their
expertise with others.
Read
Report Outline Take notes
In groups, students will develop a new
monetary system, calendar, rites of
passage, and life cycle customs for
their nation.
Explain
Research Summarize
Exemplify
Discriminate
Infer
In groups, students compose and perform a
national anthem, design and wear national
costumes, make and share national foods.
Formulate
Speculate
Debate
Critique
Verify
Hypothesize
Judge
Analyzing
Debating
Students will use the Internet,
encyclopaedias, magazines, and
trade books to research the physical
features of 5 possible geographic
areas for locating nation.
Students complete a chart to
summarize the important features of 5
different locations to compare
possible locations for their nation.
Pretending to be summoned to a world tribunal,
students must critique their nation’s human rights
record.
Divergent
Open-minded
Brainstorm
cluster)
Illustrate
Forecast
Design
Process
Invent
Editorialize
Recommend
Investigative
Problemsolving
Students brainstorm criteria for
choosing a name for their nation.
Idea-oriented
Experiential
Inventive
Web (concept map,
Explore
Students brainstorm criteria for the
best place to locate their nation on
the globe (as if there are no existing
nations).
Reorganize Generalize
Connect
Investigate
Students will explore the shape of
their nation from different
perspectives and create an original
drawing.
Students complete a criteria grid to
decide which of the 5 locations is
best.
Direct
Create
Each student creates a limerick to describe the
drawing that they created from the shape of their
nation.
As a class, students weigh evidence to decide
what makes an ideal location for a nation.
Form adapted from Butler, K. (1987). Learning and Teaching Style: In Theory and Practice, The Learner’s Dimension; Columbia, Connecticut
Shelley Hasinoff 2009