tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post6595350755692269029..comments2024-03-20T05:40:38.114-04:00Comments on Notebooking, Teaching, and Technology: Weekly Lesson PlansEve Heatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342106467437789200noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-24121746885209766732009-09-25T20:22:09.015-04:002009-09-25T20:22:09.015-04:00I'm reading your blog for the first time!! Wh...I'm reading your blog for the first time!! What an awesome job you are doing with these notebooks. I'm starting my own version of the notebooks with my 3rd graders. In your lesson plan description you mentioned various activities you had them work on... the scientific methods puzzle, and others... would you mind describing them for me some or if you have those... maybe sharing those :) As a newbie to the ISN's I'm feeling stuck as to what to have them do when they are done... or finish quickly, Thanks<br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks so much!!!Vero McLanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734724055330104726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-23535162685630031602009-09-15T21:56:28.449-04:002009-09-15T21:56:28.449-04:00Thank you so much!Thank you so much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-74970910350307983822009-09-13T17:53:31.811-04:002009-09-13T17:53:31.811-04:00In the case of my weather title page I drew a titl...In the case of my weather title page I drew a title page on the board and asked students what kind of tools do they think are needed to study the weather? I then drew a picture on that spot on the board. Then I asked what kinds of severe weather have they ever seen on TV or here in town then drew something in that block. I went through each block asking students to give me idea of what we can draw in each block. This really helped in preassessing their knowledge of weather (the third block had a weather safety drawing and fourth block had weather map symbols). I had one class that could only think of very basic weather tools and another class that was suggesting things like doppler radar and satellites. After we did it together as a group on the board I had students draw it in their book. They had the option of drawing exactly what I did or they could draw any of things that were mentioned when we discussed the specific blocks. I liked this method. You can also use the textbook to get ideas for pictures to put in the blocks (which is what I will probably do for our next unit - Astronomy). <br /><br />EveEve Heatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342106467437789200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-69445952777337535942009-09-13T16:18:53.852-04:002009-09-13T16:18:53.852-04:00I just found your blog and love it! I have a quest...I just found your blog and love it! I have a question about the weather title page: do you go over the information first and then have the students complete the title page, or do they do the title page first and then you go over the information? I would like to use this with my second graders and I am trying to figure out the best way to do it. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-18380606124262612682009-09-13T12:34:11.380-04:002009-09-13T12:34:11.380-04:00John - Students were isolating independent and dep...John - Students were isolating independent and dependent variables in several examples on the board. One example asked about the speed of buttoning a shirt with your thumb taped down vs. without being taped down. The students all wanted to try it. So the next day I got a couple of my husband shirts and tried it. It did not go well in my first class. Students weren't engaged, it was taking too long, etc. So with my second class I changed the question to who adapts better to having their thumbs tied down - boys, girls, or adults. We listed what we knew about all three groups (boys possess good hand eye coordination, girls develop faster, teachers are older but wiser, etc). They then had to make a hypothesis based on what we knew about the different groups. I was able to get two groups going and activly engage 8 children (rotating them) in three different rounds (one person had the shirt on, one was buttoning, one was timing, and one was making sure they didn't cheat). I minimized the button number to only having to do 5 buttons on the shirt and capped the time to 4 min. max. It went much better after that and we recorded the data. Really the point was to show them the steps of the scientific method, how to design an experiment and the importance of recording data. Was it the "best" experiment? Probably not but it was inexpensive and fun for my fourth graders. <br /><br />EveEve Heatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342106467437789200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-59295019608491669552009-09-13T10:47:30.128-04:002009-09-13T10:47:30.128-04:00Thanks so much for sharing your lesson plans, I lo...Thanks so much for sharing your lesson plans, I love seeing what other teachers are doing in their classrooms! Love the mini-science fair board idea!5th Grade Sciencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00819218013056907258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239061985324296356.post-28286158473615765292009-09-13T04:09:12.649-04:002009-09-13T04:09:12.649-04:00Sounds like a busy week. great photos. I would lik...Sounds like a busy week. great photos. I would like to know more about the adaptation/button lessonJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07404861386828866916noreply@blogger.com