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Winona reminded us of some things that we need to keep in mind as we develop stage 3. It is important that each lesson to have a clear connection to how knowledge is built (put together) to answer the essential question. All activities should work towards building knowledge to complete the performance assessment. Activities should be scaffolded – students should see the connection to the “Big Idea.” Present the rubric at the beginning of the lesson as a road map to where you (and the students) are going in the unit. Kids have to know what you want upfront – present your expectations (for the end product) at the beginning. As you plan activities for each day, ask yourself, “Are these activities getting them were I want them in the end?”

Remember to include activities that require students to rethink and revise what do. It is important that students to have an environment were they can make a mistake and it is okay. They also need an incentive to continue on when they do make a mistake.

A variety of activities are needed to meet the learning styles of all students. In addition, learning activities should be sequenced.

After implementation changes will have to me made – do the best that you can now – knowing that if something doesn’t work, it can be changed later.

Here are some important pages from the UBD book, please take a few minutes to look at these . . .

Page 228 – breaks down stage 3 into the days

Page 238 – look through the learning activities and make sure that you have each of the WHERETO elements – label it in the unit, like this (W)

Below are the highlights from the Techno-Instructional Strategies that the Fifth Grade teachers shared during our Face-to-Face Day 4.

Allison showed a flipchart that she found and downloaded from Promethean Planet. The flipchart helped student calculate the area of a rectangle.

Dana also recommended using PowerPoint presentations from Discovery Educator’s Network.

Cynthia showed a flipchart that she created to teach part of a circle. She also showed geometry related websites on “Math Lab” and “Harcourt.” Here is another Harcourt site.

Dana showed a flipchart on polygons. She got some of her ideas from Promethean Planet. Dana also used Harcourt’s (on-line book) website – see her post below. We all need to take the time to check out the Harcourt site – student book pages come up – it is very interactive and great to use on our Promethean and SMART boards! Very e-Math compatible! Thanks for posting to the blog Dana!

Jennifer showed a flipchart that she found on Promethean Planet on finding the area of geometric shapes (triangle, parallelogram, circle, complex shapes, etc.). It has great graphics and modeling for students. She has stored all of these great resources on the “S” drive.

Carol showed “Mathopenref.com” showed kids how to use real-life geometry concepts. The site brings “flat, fixed” geometric figures to life. She also showed “mathsnet.net” which demonstrates the concept of volume.

Fifth grade teachers have done a GREAT job of taking advantage of Promethean Planet – there are some great resources there – why should we create new things from scratch!

I found 2 flipcharts from Promethean Planet to help with teaching area of triangles and area of parallelograms. One is the about the "area of triangles" and the other is about the "area of various shapes." Both can be easily modified to fit our needs. The clip in the triangle flipchart is OK, but you may want to put in something else in its place. Both flipcharts on on the S drive, 5th Grade Share, Math.

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Connie gave us the link for this website. I started looking through it just to see what we had coming our way next year. It is absolutely full of extra tasks for the students to do. It is very Promethean friendly and you can do activities on the board or allow the students to work at their stations. Every lesson/section has extra practice and activities. All you have to do is sign up for an account. Connie's email had the password.

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On the website there is a Georgia Dome activity where the students watch a video that reviews/introduces geometric terms (quadrilaterals)
You simply go to the section of the chapter that matches what you are teaching and look through the activities that go along with the topic.