How Students Turned MISTAKES into MASTERPIECES!

How students may respond to a "mistake" prior to this activity:

How students will respond to a "mistake" after this activity: 

Showing students that making mistakes is okay one thing, but embracing them and seeing them as opportunities is something that takes practice!

Here's how our students changed their mindset: 

Download the Beautiful Oops activity here. There is a primary and intermediate version. Below shows the intermediate version. 

• We squiggled a random scribble on paper...
• We read Beautiful Oops 

• We reflected on the message through some close reading. 
• We looked at things differently. 

• 5. ...Then got a second opinion (cough..peer feedback...cough). 

 

• After...we got CREATIVE! We added details to make our "mistakes" beautiful. We shared our masterpieces with peers and received MORE feedback! 
• FINALLY, we reflected on the experience. 

BAM. In one 45 minute lesson, students practice the following Genius Hour skills: peer feedback, planning, AND reflection...with a little sprinkle of creativity.

Students had a blast turning these doodles into masterpieces. It made some students really shine. Here are some "after" photos of examples of what students came up with!

This one is unreal. If you look at it like this, it's a wolf...

But cover up the other side, and it's a bird! So creative!!