I just taught my first UbD lesson and I left overflowing with thoughts and reflections. There is so much wonder and excitement I have about the social studies content I'm teaching. I just wish I could transmit that to my students through osmosis. I wanted to incorporate student voice and boost status thorugh a jeopardy activity, and I think it was good. The group of students hasn't had activities like that ever before so, all things considered I think they did really well. They were responsive and provided measureable, appropriate feedback. With this activity though, I had one student in every group that was really engaged, the rest of the students were still getting over the novelty of being placed into groups for a "game" ( I didn't call it that, but that's what they were thinking.) How can I scaffold these activites appropriately if I want to start introducing them this late in the year? Do you just have to dive right in and begin by telling them your new expectations for experiences like this, or do you work up to them?