Monday, April 14, 2008
Final e-Math Collaborative
The e-Math teachers at SCES had our last official collaborative on Wednesday, April 2nd! Here are some comments from the day’s presentations.
Wynn--good use of manipulatives; liked the way you linked both physical and virtual resources and provided students opportunities to use both to refine their thinking--most excellent. Great way to teach multiplication. I loved the flip chart. Manipulatives were great. Loved the way the students participated in the lesson and designed the T-shirts! Great manipulatives! I want a T-shirt! Great idea.
Allison: Transformations, rotations, reflections - Used Shirts in the Mirror BAM - -good student use of technology (digital camera) -good cross curricular links (with art) -students demonstrated evidence of linking concept to real life - Good job. I know the students loved doing this! Super job relating the areas and making connections with shapes and letters! Great job with transformations! Made a possibly boring topic into one of interest by making a flipchart that was fun to use.
Dana: Blast off with Geometry/Soar of Crash and Burn -Good progression through Bloom's Taxonomy of Skills -again, good student use of technology (using digital cameras) -liked the way students had the opportunity to employ the protractor tool -really liked the examples of real life angles--good way to build for transfer of learning -Birthday Cupcakes BAM -I'm impressed that you collaborated with an EIP student and asked the pupil to help create flipchart content.
Good job. Very interesting for the kids. Keeps them thinking. Great job with BAM! It's great that you exposed your students to images of world icons--Eiffel Tower. They'll need this core knowledge to understand concepts in other disciplines. Cupcake BAM was great! Good job explaining. Cute BAM! I know the kids could relate to this!
Cynthia: Chapter 14 Percents -Like the way students followed in a flipchart of their own while you presented the lesson -Per Cent paint looks very engaging -Using per cents in context of money was a great way to link concept to real life -Nifty idea: percentages of clothing components -Cool--you had students create circle graphs that employed percentages -Great flipchart created! Grid used to "paint" to create percent was great too! Bringing money in to teach decimals and percents is a good way to make it real world for the students. Students benefit by having this on their stations to read from as well as the board. Clickers used for assessment. Great performance assessment - creating their own circle graphs with topics of their choice. Love the percent paint link! What a "catchy" tool to help reinforce percent! I love the percent paint link! Great activity!
Carol: Triangles -Smart use of time, using content from Promethean Planet -I'm glad you pointed out how what the students are doing is linked to what they'll be expected to do on standardized test (you also did a masterful job of pointing out potential pitfalls) -Liked how you took this concept a step further with the use of the Math TV video--preparing kids for a foundation in algebra -Liked the magic magnifying glass Good job. Can't wait to use it!!! Much needed in fifth grade! Great flipchart! That was super. I know they will enjoy working on this. Ann: BAM related activity, Broken Clocks -Good way to demonstrate how well students understand elapsed time...they really have to articulate their conceptualization of how we tell time -This lesson really calls for a higher than average level of sophistication. It's evident you have high expectations for students. Way to go! -very engaging! Higher level thinking!!! Good job with the broken clocks. Great job and flipchart! Time is such a hard thing for all elementary school kids! Great flipchart. Flip chart was great!
Josh: Patterns and Algebraic Relationships (Review for CRCT)/Assessment for Chapter 8 for distributive property -Use of ACTIVotes for feedback -Making sure to include the model before having students complete an operation is very sound teaching The kids love using the ACTIVotes Love the baseball theme-Good way to prepare students for what they'll be experiencing on the CRCT -chapter 8-students used flipchart at station Sometimes bells and whistles are not needed to get the information! Great use of modeling the problem rather than just solving the problem! Loved the baseball theme.
Winona's portion: Millie and Mel -use of scanner -Winona has been using this with students in her Google Docs and Spreadsheets -Her students have been working groups to create a presentation in Google Docs
Yvonne: Adding different numbers -students have to be very good at articulating their understanding of the process -She's making good use of the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Pam: Leopard's Leap -Based on a BAM -The flipchart allows you to model the problem solving skills. I like how you pulled in other skills - Multiples -Great use of the promethean software. - To solve the problem. -Liked her idea of having each group draw it out, scanning the image, and then sharing groups' work with the entire class
Jennifer: Good idea to have students plan their flipchart before creating their flipchart. Students were folding paper so that each "box" represents a flipchart page -Manipulating the software and typing took a while -It's obvious that the students grasped the concept
Vickie: Do your best, bust that test! Good idea--use pages from previously made/used 3rd grade flipcharts (this idea saves time and reinforces concepts) -wow! You certainly encompassed lots of ideas with this - What an easy way to review by pulling from flipcharts that have already been made.
Kiersten: Grassy Parks (BAM) -Working with area and perimeter -Vickie's point about using a policeman to check the perimeter and the area is a good idea.
Retta: Solid and Plane Figures -downloaded from Promethean Planet -Great use of "borrowing" from others. (Why reinvent the wheel if the resource is already available? Very smart and efficient.) -Brain Pop videos using flipcharts not only can you borrow, but you can add to and alter the flipcharts that you find.
Melissa: The Trouble with Tables (BAM) - Use of calculators -Good idea: modeling skill by collaborating with students and then having them independently demonstrate the skill -Very adept with her use of the flipchart and its tools –
Holly: 5th Grade Station 6-Solid Figures - Highlights the skills in the 5th grade GPS -Exploring polyhedrons -Parts of polyhedron –Sorting
Jeff also left us with some great resources - animated resources from Learner.org (Annenberg Project) – webnode.com (for making blogs) – when using delicious, use the Georgia Performance Standard as a tag – ktq.webnode.com (Georgia’s Keys to Quality)
