To the Lighthouse Lesson Plan

Wisdom of the Crowd

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Students will better understand how reality can be considered a collection of mulitple subjective experiences

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.2

Structure:

In advance, prepare at least one jar, vase, bucket, or some other vessel. Fill it with jelly beans, mancala beads, or something similar. For ease, these directions will use the terms jar and jelly beans.

Students will look at the jar and write down, individually, their guess for how many jelly beans fill it. Have each student turn in their guess without any input from the rest of the class. Before you reveal any of the answers,...