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Lesson for Students

Wed Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2006

Subscriber Marije Martijn graciously sent suggested the following Visual Thesaurus learning activity for students, after she read our "Wanted" posting from a teacher:

"In response to the teacher's query: I was thinking it might be nice to give kids an association assignment, telling them to get from, say, tree to society in four steps. Entering tree in the VT would get you, among others, wood. Clicking on wood gets you club, and from club you get to society.

If this is too difficult, you can just ask them to find two words that are entirely unrelated in a small number of steps. This kind of assignments will make them think about synonyms (e.g. "club") and in general about relations between words. And to tell you the truth, I think it is also just fun to do. Best, Marije"

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