Draw What was Said

One sentence and a room full of pictures.

The same instruction can become very different drawings.

Students draw without comparing, then put their interpretations side by side. They explore which words they understood differently and what stayed similar across the drawings.



How to use this:

Keep the twist quiet.

Explain what students need to do, but leave the comparison until after they have drawn. Different interpretations are something to explore, not a mistake to catch.

  • Share the PDF digitally. Students read the instruction once and draw without looking at each other’s work.

  • In pairs, they identify one difference and one shared meaning. Close by asking which words led to different interpretations and what the group still understood in common.


Frankie Griffin

I’m Frankie, a Visual Designer for Curriculum & Learning Content at Kami. I spent more than a decade teaching, and those classrooms still shape the questions I ask and the things I make.

Previous
Previous

The Future Museum