Crime

A teacher, Keline, showed two trigger videos to her class in order for them to generate ideas on the topic of ‘Crime’.

Both videos were trailers to Crime Watch episodes, with the first clip showing scenes of people running, abandoning their gloves, and being caught by police. The second clip showed a knife, robbers who tied up their victims, and CCTV footage. 

Students first wrote down their ideas on a 'see think wonder' worksheet. After this individual idea generation, Keline got her students to share their ideas with one another. When similar ideas were brought up, she taught the class how to scaffold their ideas to build onto their friends’ ideas; for instance, using the line “I would like to build on _________’s idea”. She also taught students to use the ‘New information’ and ‘Putting our ideas together’ scaffold to write down new ideas they heard from their friends and to come up with better, more complete ideas. 

In this way, Keline incorporated the KB pedagogy into her lesson without using KF.

Healthy vs. Unhealthy Food

Two teachers were covering the topic of Healthy and unhealthy food with their classes. Instead of relying on the package prepared by their school, they led off the topic by showing students a video clip on junk food and healthy food.

The trigger video showcased an animation of 'Junk Food Bandits' playing a basketball match against the 'Pyramid Powers', in a face-off between healthy and unhealthy food.

The first teacher, Huixuan, posed an open inquiry question to her students after they had watched the video, “What are some of your takeaways from the video?”. She then guided them to post their ideas and questions on KF (Fig. 2). 

Fig 2. 'Healthy vs. Unhealthy Food' KF view of Huixuan's class

The second teacher, Shoba, posed four questions to students prior to showing them the video, in order to guide their thinking while watching it: "What do you think is the purpose of showing you this video?"; "What do you think about the video?"; "What stands out to you in the video?"; and "What interests you?" After watching the video, she directed students to post their thoughts and ideas on KF (Fig. 3). 

Fig 3. 'Healthy vs. Unhealthy Food' KF view of Shoba's class

Fire

After going through the school’s slides and content coverage for the topic, both Angela and Beth set their students out to complete group compositions.

Under the voting scaffold ‘I chose this because’, students were to read all the groups’ compositions and post a note on the view of the group composition which they liked the best. They were also prompted to state their reasons for their choice, as well as to quote phrases from the original piece to support their stand.