KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION

Knowledge construction activities require students to generate ides and understandings that are new to them Students can do this through interpretation, analysis, synthesis or evaluation.  In stronger activities, knowledge construction is the main requirement of the learning activity.

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HOW ANANSI BECAME A SPIDER

There was once an African king who had the finest ram in the world. When this ram happened to be grazing on Anansi's crops one day, Anansi threw a rock at it, hitting it between the eyes and killing it. Anansi knew that the king would punish him for what he had done to the prize ram, and he immediately schemed how to get out of the situation. Needless to say, Anansi resorted to trickery. Anansi went to sit under a tree to think of an escape when, all of a sudden, a nut fell and struck him on the head. Anansi immediately had an idea. First, he took the dead ram and tied it to the nut tree. Then he went to a spider and told it of a wonderful tree laden with nuts. The spider was delighted and immediately went to the tree. Anansi then went to the king and told him that the spider had evidently killed the prize ram; the ram was hanging from a tree where the spider was spinning webs. The king flew into a rage and demanded the death penalty for the spider.

plagiarism and citing sources

plagiarism and citing sources

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