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Your task is to create a lesson in order to explain and show what you understand best about fractions
Role
You are a fourth grade teacher
Audience
Your audience is your classmates
Situation
The situation you find yourself in a 4th grade classroom
Product/Performance
You will create a lesson in order to explain and to show what you understand best about fractions
Standards
Using technology teach the part to whole relationship using a real world example and the learned core vocabulary.
Evidence of development of supporting understandings, knowledge and skills
(identify assessment criteria, strategies and tools for each)
EDM study links, math boxes, various quizzes
teacher created vocabulary quizzes
food activities to demonstrate knowledge
pre-test and post-test
Evidence of student application of selected National Educational Technology Standards during the course of the unit? (Note: assessment of the NETS standards should be integrated with assessment of unit understandings, knowledge and skills and embedded within unit learning activities)
Learning Experiences (Stage 3)
Consider the questions in the boxes below as you design learning experiences that support student achievement of desired results and exploration of unit essential questions.
Building Background/Connecting to Students’ Current Understandings, Knowledge and Skills
1. In Art, students create symmetrical representations of fractions using crayons and other media.
2. In Lab, students create PowerPoint presentations demonstrating their understanding of parts and wholes.
Use “Where To…” as a tool to assess the quality and scope of unit learning experiences.
How will you cause students to reflect and rethink? How will you guide them in rehearsing, revising, and refining their work?
Where are your students headed? Where have they been? How will you make sure the students know where they are going?
How will you help students to exhibit and self-evaluate their growing skills, knowledge, and understanding throughout the unit?
How will you hook students at the beginning of the unit?
How will you tailor and otherwise personalize the learning plan to optimize the engagement and effectiveness of ALL students, without compromising the goals of the unit?
What events will help students experience and explore the big idea and questions in the unit? How will you equip them with needed skills and knowledge?
How will you organize and sequence the learning activities to optimize the engagement and achievement of ALL students?
From: Wiggins, Grant and J. Mc Tighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
A success has been getting to know Stephanie (our new teammate)! Another success is really delving into higher-level thinking. We all know that's where the learning happens. It's nice to work together on a lesson that can actually be used.
A challenge is thinking through the UbD template. Philosophy vs. technology vs. time vs. resources. It's a little overwhelming.
Challenge-understanding verbage and what goes where for each section of our unit
Success-getting some of stage 1 completed--lots of great ideas and dialogue about stage 2. Having fun working together with my new team mates :)
Learnings and successes: I am not so scared of a smart board, now-- it looks workable. A challenge is that I am so technology illiterate that the basic operations and understandings of drag/drop etc. technology are missing for me, which is a handicap. 06-2-10
Success: feeling more confident and excited about using new technology tools
Challenges: feeling like we have a lot of $ to spend, and realizing that $12,000 won't go as far as we'd like
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Comments (4)
Ara McKelvey said
at 3:58 pm on Jun 2, 2010
A success has been getting to know Stephanie (our new teammate)! Another success is really delving into higher-level thinking. We all know that's where the learning happens. It's nice to work together on a lesson that can actually be used.
A challenge is thinking through the UbD template. Philosophy vs. technology vs. time vs. resources. It's a little overwhelming.
smerrill@... said
at 3:58 pm on Jun 2, 2010
Challenge-understanding verbage and what goes where for each section of our unit
Success-getting some of stage 1 completed--lots of great ideas and dialogue about stage 2. Having fun working together with my new team mates :)
wevans@... said
at 3:59 pm on Jun 2, 2010
Learnings and successes: I am not so scared of a smart board, now-- it looks workable. A challenge is that I am so technology illiterate that the basic operations and understandings of drag/drop etc. technology are missing for me, which is a handicap. 06-2-10
tdenisto@... said
at 4:00 pm on Jun 2, 2010
Success: feeling more confident and excited about using new technology tools
Challenges: feeling like we have a lot of $ to spend, and realizing that $12,000 won't go as far as we'd like
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