12/13 Hudson

Today's day we centered and organized around 5th grade.

Notes included:

How do we Acquire new information?

MAP Skills:

·      Scientific Method

·      Transition from Facts to critical thinking

·      Hands on

·      Science fair projects – with groups

Examples:

·      Consider purchasing Page Keely Formative

·      Do more questioning activities

·      Scientific method based activities

·      More hands on

·      More informal assessment (lead to feedback)

·      More consistent Benchmarks along the way

·      Using data to identify areas of weakness BEFORE the assessment

·      Look for ways to make more personal connections (PBLU.org)

·      Lacking connections to the diversity of all learners background

·      Have McGee over to share MAP data (tear apart together)

How do 5th graders acquire new information?

Now:

·      Notes

·      Activity

·      Discussion

·      Video or video clip

·      Websites

·      Vocabulary

·      Demonstration

·      Research

·      Story books

·      Field trips

·      Current news

·      Act it out

·      Science journals – everything we do, notes, research, labs and activities

Possibility:

·      Songs

·      Movement

·      Coloring

·      Sorting

·      Play

·      Investigation

·      Removing the fear of risk

·      Focus on the process as opposed to the outcome

·      Be willing to give time

·      Science Journals – Wonder pages, questions, collecting data, science at home, favorite experiences, real life examples, collection from year to year, focus on the emotional connection to the experiences

·      Idea of capturing a document/image to preserve for future years.

Learning Designs

·      Do the lab and leave it set up for 3 to 4 more days – part of the daily 5 workshop

·      Video your lab and have it available

·      Bits of a video to wrap up the day

·      Play a game

·      Integrate movement and vocabulary – Charades

·      Act it out using an object

·      Seek to integrate the curriculum within other areas/times

·      Discussed how other schools do it

·      Discussed the advantages and disadvantages of specializing

Afterwords we continued conversations by focusing our efforts on Chemical Interactions unit

We created the following Goal/objectives:

Essential Learning Goal:

SWBAT identify patterns of changes.

Objectives:

• ·  SWBAT Construct models of atoms and molecules to demonstrate three-dimensional structure
• · SWBAT Describe and compare the properties of matter, including density, state of matter, volume, and mass
• ·  SWBAT Describe ways to Separate components in a mixture/solution
• ·  SWBAT Identify chemical changes in common objects as a result of interactions with heat, light, water, and air

And then discussed assessment and preliminary learning designs: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/1cVhAnc3v74ZUVkujDJ3wIy_335mXmxBPF3JRhccxaCg/edit#