I'm drafting the routines I'll put into place next year as I teach community, science, and math. Each routine includes the following foci:
- Focus on the learning standard and goal.
- Question, knowledge share.
- Determining, creating learning paths.
- Multimedia resources, independent/collaborative study.
- Writing and vocabulary.
- Assessment and share.
Math
Each class will meet to learn math for about 60-90 minutes a day. I'd like to focus on one learning goal each week with the following weekly routine:
Monday:
- Introduce the learning goal and vocabulary.
- Discuss what we know/think we know and questions.
- Determine the learning path: How will we meet this goal?
- Choosing the path(s), exploration.
- Home Study: Students review learning goal with online videos, games, and/or other information.
Tuesday:
- Focus Lesson: Teacher provides a short focus lesson as a follow-up to yesterday's lesson and the home study assignment.
- Students choose their learning/practice activity and continue the learning.
- Home Study: Practice choices listed on online document.
Wednesday:
- Check-In: What have you learned so far related to the goal, and what questions remain?
- Continued learning activities, practice, and enrichment.
- Home Study: Practice choices listed on online document.
Thursday:
- Writing about what we have learned. Students compose reflections, descriptions, scripts, comics, posters, videos, or other compositions explaining the concept with words, diagrams, and images.
- Home Study: Students complete the composition at home.
Friday:
- Students share compositions. A few compositions are published on weekly newsletter.
- Short Assessment.
- Teacher reviews assessments and determines next week's goal.
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Science Routine
There are approximately six weeks and 12 lessons per unit with two lessons per week.
Lesson One:
- Topic Introduced.
- Teams Created.
- Topic Website Exploration.
- Questions Generated.
- Website will include a number of home study choices. One home study choice will be required by the end of the project.
Lesson Two - Three:
- Hands-On Resources Introduced.
- Exploration.
Lesson Four:
- Project Problem Introduced.
- Hypothesis Generated.
- Teams Design Investigation Path.
- Investigation Begins.
- Teams Keep a Journal of the Investigation.
Lesson Five - Nine:
- Investigation continues in school and at home if desired.
Lesson Ten & Eleven:
- Investigation completed and a short concluding composition is created.
Lesson Twelve:
- Compositions and investigation results shared.
- Short Assessment.
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Reading, Writing, and Community
The biographies of famous scientists, technologists, engineers, artists, and mathematicians will serve as the program framework. I will weave this effort into the learning as time allows.
- Introduce famous person and generate questions and knowledge statements.
- Read the story. As I read ask students to write down questions, fascinating facts, or reactions.
- Choose one quote from the famous person and have students copy that quote into their STEAM Inspiration notebooks. Have students reflect on the quote. Share reflections.
- Possible follow-up activities could include videos about the individual, TED talks, timelines, Skype or Google Hangouts.
Below is the online template I'll use to guide students' home study related to the routines above.
Home Study List
Please check the home study list nightly for class updates and news.
Team 15 Home Study Chart and Message Board
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Biography of the Week:
Weekly Quote:
Math
Standard:
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Related Vocabulary
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Day
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30 Minute Home Study Activity:
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Monday
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Review Online Study Links. List Questions.
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Tuesday
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Practice Choices:
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Wednesday
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Practice Choices:
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Thursday
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Complete Composition:
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Science Standard:
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Project Choices:
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Due Date:
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