In this recipe, we are going to work with the following website: http://classtools.net. There is a new item within its incredible variation of interactive activities and games that we can develop for free—Telescopic Topic allows us to carry out an interactive flowchart that can be opened as far as we want to expand our reading. The idea is to choose a Nobel Prize winner and write his biography; students can expand it, depending on how much they want to read.
You could give the name of the Nobel Prize winner at the beginning of the activity or you could play another type of guessing game, and after they read the biography of the said person, they have to find out who the person is.
First of all, think about the person to write about. After that, go to the aforementioned website and choose Telescopic Topic generator.
I would like to point out that this website offers an upgrade version with more facilities to work with. This is optional, and the recipe that we are going to work with is available for free.
You should think of the main items that will expand in the biography and add additional data to it.
We can either design this in any type of writing processor, that is to say Microsoft Word or Open Office, copy-and-paste it in the Telescopic Topic generator, or write it directly in the website. In this case, the activity is carried out directly in the website.
Follow these steps in order to develop the activity:
We will carry out this activity in Online text so that students can say who the person is and why using the speech that we have made links to, they have a special clue. Follow these steps so that you can design the activity:
By the way, the name of the Nobel Prize winner is Martin Luther King Jr.
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