After taking a graduate course on teaching science, I have been trying to integrate the idea of science notebooks into my sixth grade science classroom. We are working on sky science, and so I created the following notebook. Using Google Classroom, I shared it with my students, who have been working through the different tasks. Below are some of the resources we learned about in my course on science notebooks that I found useful. My hope is that as the year progresses, my use of science notebooks will begin to be more authentic and align with the nature of science and the practices of real scientists.
http://www.sciencenotebooks.org/
http://goo.gl/XykRnA
http://goo.gl/XykRnA
http://ebecri.org/content/toolkit
Our Science notebooks:
http://goo.gl/p9nWY6
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Friday, 12 December 2014
Race to Save Christmas
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByN_OLXLIuI2bWdubW9EYUpzOWs&usp=sharing
In grade one, we have been working on a Christmas game, where the kids solve riddles and math clues to try and save the North Pole from some bad elves that have invaded! The link above is to the folder with all the resources if you wanted to check it out. When they solve a clue, we tweet "santa" (I made an account @mr_clausHOHO), and Santa Tweets us back our next clue the following day. We tracked our progress on a big paper map of the north pole, but I also made a digital copy.
Here is an example of our Tweets from Santa
In grade one, we have been working on a Christmas game, where the kids solve riddles and math clues to try and save the North Pole from some bad elves that have invaded! The link above is to the folder with all the resources if you wanted to check it out. When they solve a clue, we tweet "santa" (I made an account @mr_clausHOHO), and Santa Tweets us back our next clue the following day. We tracked our progress on a big paper map of the north pole, but I also made a digital copy.
Here is an example of our Tweets from Santa
This is an example of one of the math clues the kids had to solve
This project was just a fun way to spend December, while still working on math problems. The Twitter aspect made the kids really buy in!
#HourOfCode
I decided that I would introduce my class to the hour of code. After reading a lot about it on Twitter, I realized that even though it doesn't specifically align with our outcomes, it does teach students a whole bunch of essential skills that they need to learn, such as problem solving, communicating, patterning, enhancing their understanding of technology and engaging them at a difficult time of year. Below are the sites that we used for our hour of code:
www.madewithcode.com/projects
www.crunchzilla.com/code-monster
scratch.mit.edu
studio.code.org/s/frozen/stage/1/puzzle/1
codecombat.com
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