{"id":5159,"date":"2017-06-16T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2023-01-14T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T17:15:27","slug":"which-one-doesnt-belong-a-starter-activity-to-highlight-connections-contrasts-and-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/which-one-doesnt-belong-a-starter-activity-to-highlight-connections-contrasts-and-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhich One Doesn\u2019t Belong?\u201d: a starter activity to highlight connections, contrasts and comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overview\"\"<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Students are presented with four simple images (or statements) and challenged to give a reasoned answer to the question \u201cWhich one doesn\u2019t belong?\u201d. There isn\u2019t any single \u201ccorrect\u201d answer. As such, any student or group of students can gain points for any valid reason given. From obvious surface differences, students should be encouraged to draw out their existing knowledge to keep on spotting increasingly sophisticated connections, contrasts and comparisons.<\/p>\n

Case Study 1: Maths<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This approach is already very popular with Mathematics teachers (check out #WODB<\/a> and @WODB<\/a> on Twitter) and was brought to my attention by two of my friends here at the International School of Toulouse – Jim Noble<\/strong> (@teachmaths<\/a>) and Simon Gregg<\/strong> (@Simon_Gregg<\/a>). It is also the focus of a book<\/a> by Christoper Danielson<\/strong> (@Trianglemancsd<\/a>) and a blog by Mary Bourasa<\/strong> (@MaryBourassa<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Case Study 2: History<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Although originating in the mathematics classroom, #WODB can clearly be used in any curriculum subject. In History, students could be presented with the faces of four people that have been studied:<\/p>\n

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In the first round it is likely that the points made will be based on surface appearances (\u201conly one of them is clearly a child\u201d, \u201cOnly one has a beard\u201d) and these points could either be given less credit or discounted altogether. Better students will make more meaningful points demonstrating contextual knowledge (\u201cThe second one was the only monarch to rule England for more than 40 years\u201d, \u201cThe first one was the only one to have any children of his own\u201d). Once these ideas run out, display the names of the individuals to hopefully provoke another round of ideas.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the exercise, various points should have been identified that could then be shared with the class:<\/p>\n

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Taking it further<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • Students could design their own #WODB challenge that could be used in\u00a0subsequent\u00a0lessons.<\/li>\n
  • The \u201cWhich One Doesn\u2019t Belong?\u201d approach is clearly applicable to any curriculum subject, and does not need to be limited to images. Quotes, diagrams, keywords, dates, places, names of books, objects, colours, musical instruments, countries, animals, chemicals, tools – the list is endless. Here are a couple\u00a0more examples from Twitter:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Overview Students are presented with four simple images (or statements) and challenged to give a reasoned answer to the question \u201cWhich one doesn\u2019t belong?\u201d. There isn\u2019t any single \u201ccorrect\u201d answer. As such, any student or group of students can gain points for any valid reason given. From obvious surface differences, students should be encouraged to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[539,537,541,343,540,342,538],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}