Erin+Bull's+Math+Lesson

Hello everyone! This is where I will eventually post my lesson when I find some time to get it done! Is anyone else feeling the pressure of the end of the school year and Master's work at the same time?! Yikes!! :)

Hi Erin,

I hear you! I am stressed out right now too. Your page title scared me because I thought you were already finished your lesson!! It will all get finished and we will soon have more time off:)

Keep smiling, Lynne

Erin - I thought your lesson was current and really good. This is an authentic serious problem occurring in the world today. I thought all of your activities were really good too. One question I have for you is would the second to last section of the lesson take five days to complete? Students will be working in depth on four of your content standards, but this lesson will take nine days to complete. The time it takes to complete a PBL is one of the concerns I have about using PBL. Although the lessons are valuable and lend themselves to deeper learning, they take a long time to complete. I wish there were a happy medium:) I think it is amazing that you are incorporating visuals, a guest speaker and KWHL charts for your students. These types of activities benefit ELL and IEP students as well as visual and auditory learners. My last suggestion would be to add on some science standards (and social studies too if they are discussing the impact of the spill on their community) since you are obviously crossing this lesson over into science. Really well done! Lynne
 * My Problem-Based Learning Lesson:** [[file:PBL Lesson Plan Outline.docx]]

Lynne- Thank you for your kind comments! I will have to look up some science standards. I am having a more difficult time with the Online Collaboration Lesson. I tried to attach it to my Problem-Based Learning Lesson, but it's almost like they just build off of one another and I don't know that is right? Erin

Hi Erin,

I am still working on my Online Collaboration Lesson. The lessons are supposed to connect to one another, so I think you are on the right track. My lesson is just going to be in the same mathematical strand of measurement and Jen said that is okay. We cannot spend more than one mini unit per topic or we will never finish the curriculum. I will check your lesson out shortly and give you feedback:) Lynne


 * My Online Collaboration Lesson:** [[file:Online Collaboration Lesson Plan Outline.docx]]

Erin, It is so wonderful that your school allows your students to use Skype. With some monitoring it can be an excellent collaboration tool! I love your relevant topic and it will keep your seventh grader engaged and interested. ~Lauren

Erin,

A few questions for you to think about: Will the revisions in Day 1 be a result of online feedback/peer recommendations using social collaboration? How will students compare the two locations? Scale maps? You have listed 2 Day 1 sections. Is the second one supposed to be Day 2?

I think your day 3 collaborative activity is great! I think it is a good idea that you are monitoring each blog post, but that is going to take you a lot of time to go through and approve all of them. For your accommodations can you ask someone to volunteer to work on paper/pencil tasks with the child who is unable to use technology?

Good job! -Lynne

I agree with Lynn, it will take a while to appove each blog post. However I can not "trust" my students to make approprate comments ona blog and would have to see them before it was posted. Hoefully in the near ftur we will have a schoolwide policy/ consquence for innappropriate posts on a classrom blog and tachers may not hav to appove all posts. ~Lauren

Lauren,

I agree that it is important - we have the same policy of having to approve each post. I really liked the use of Skype to aid your students online collaboration. I think that will really encourage the students to be involved in the lesson.

Great Lesson - Anna Marie


 * My Digital Storytelling Lesson: [[file:Digital Storytelling Lesson.docx]]**