Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Project #14
In this lesson plan for project based learning, our fourth grade students will learn about the Solar System. This lesson plan includes the subjects: science, reading, writing, and art. Our group made this into a two week lesson plan. This project is intended for our students to grasp the concept of our Solar System including asteroids, meteors, and comets. They will create a science/art project to show their understanding of the information after one week of the lesson. On Friday of the first week, they will present their projects in front of the class. During the second week, they will write a descriptive paper titled "My Trip in Outer Space." Then they will peer edit their papers in small groups of four students. After peer editing each others work, each group will choose/vote one paper that they think is the best and should be read to the class. The next day, Thursday, the presenters will read their papers and then when our students are finished reading, everyone will hand in their paper. On Friday of the second week, our students will have a multiple choice/ short answer/ and matching test on the Solar System that is made up of about 10-15 questions. This lesson plan includes resources such as iCurio, YouTube, Smart-boards, and Mac laptops. The driving question for this lesson plan is, "How do we characterize and put into order the planets of our solar system?" This is the link to our site.
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Your contact me button on your site takes us to a page that has not been developed.
ReplyDeleteYour site says this was done for Project 13. Isn't it Project 14 as the title on your blog indicates?
It appears that you have done both Projects #13 and #14 collaboratively. I had intended for you to do on;y one of the 3 collaboratively. I will accept both collaboratively done but the third must be done individually.
Why are there no documents related to Inventions and Inventors when the site page indicates both should be there?
All 5 documents show either Kohn or Lusker as their author. What did you (Dukes) contribute to project 14? And, since I am asking that question, what about for Project 13?
Why is Alex Hopson listed as an author on the Overview. Did he really contribute to that project? Who has contributed to the first two projects.
OK, I have found the documents related to Inventors. The link "Subpages Forms and Docs" should be renamed so the user can understand where things are.
The bottom link on the page where your link takes me (calendar 1) is a calendar for Inventors and only part of it can be seen. This needs to be corrected.
Substantively the plan is interesting, thoughtful, and should be interesting to implement.
There are questions for Dukes to answer (by email to me).