GOGOs are the mini activities that make ImaginGO™ Creative Classroom fun and engaging.
ImaginGO™ Creative Classroom is made of six GOGOs. The GOGO’s content is randomly generated and unusual so that students do not know what to expect. Students must stay agile and flexible in their thinking to satisfy the goal of the various challenges.
The Current GOGOs
Inventing GOGO
Your students’ brains will go into “invention overload” with Leonardo’s Inventci. Students respond to situational problems by using their imaginations to design and invent solutions.
Aligned with Standards
- Write the manual – step by step directions
- Chronological order
- Description
- Scientific
Music GOGO
How does music spark your imagination? Get in touch with emotions, feelings and how music translates into visual imagery with Themo. Student emotions become the basis for developing and exploring interesting characters.
Aligned with Standards
- Vocabulary order
- Inferring grammar and usage
- Storytelling
- Develop real or imaginative experiences
- Clear and coherent written language to accomplish a purpose
Visual Storytelling GOGO
Students are challenged to not only think about creating visuals stories but they have to incorporate specific images, squiggles and shapes to complete the Brain Space challenges.
Aligned with Standards
- Sequencing
- Beginning, middle, end
- Parts of a story
- Cause and effect
- Inference
- Drawing conclusions
- Multiple interpretation
Listening GOGO
Often, imagination is focused on words and imagery. With Hachoogie! students have an opportunity to practice their auditory response to random, unknown sound to spark new and exciting ideas.
Aligned with Standards
- Incorporating new vocabulary
- Inference the sound and incorporating into story
- Analyzing ideas and relationship between sounds
- Drawing conclusions
- Interpretation
Word Definitions GOGO
Wordinski gives students an opportunity to create their own definitions to unknown/new words. Students define the word and explain how it works and even what it may look like.
Aligned with Standards
- Vocabulary
- Descriptive words
- Adjectives, adverbs
- Meaning and content
- Demonstrate
- Understanding
- Syllables and sounds
- Decoding words
- Analyze relationships amongst ideas
Microfiction GOGO
Students take inspiration from seeing an interesting photo. They then have to not only imagine a story based off of that photo, but are challenged to do so using “10 or Less” words!
Aligned with Standards
- Vocabulary
- Order
- Inferring
- Grammar and usage
- Storytelling
- Develop real or imaginative experience
- Clear and coherent written language to accomplish a purpose amongst ideas
Different GOGOs use different primary sensory input and output. The idea is to target a variety of sensory inputs and outputs in order to help discover multiple intelligences and talents in students. For instance, Hachoogie uses sound as a sensory input and then is followed up by writing and then drawing exercises.
There are also opportunities with GOGOs where a student can rap, mime, dance or act while also challenging students with writing a blog entry or composing a song. ImaginGO™ wants to ensure that there are equal opportunities for different types of learners and accounting for various ways that students express themselves in the classroom.
