Take a look at how I decided to introduce the idea of the sun appearing to be the biggest star. I had the idea of introducing some sort of piece of news, breaking a lot of my students misconceptions that the sun IS the biggest star. The sun in fact is NOT the biggest star in our galaxy and the students need to understand why it appears to be the biggest star.
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A three day week calls for a quick review on how to represent fractions greater than one and mixed numbers, and then a smooth transition into comparing these types of fractions. This lesson plan lays out how I went about introducing this concept with my third grade class. In the end, I learned a lot about instruction within my classroom. To read my reflection on this lesson "What Happened in Math Today?!" click on the button below.
I thought introducing fractions was going to be one of the hardest math lessons to teach. With a little collaboration amongst team members, enthusiasm, and a well thought out plan, I actually enjoyed teaching this lesson and learned a lot from doing so.
This is a lesson on heat energy. This is based off of The Mitten Probe located in Uncovering Student Ideas in Science.
You know when you were a kid and your teacher said the infamous quote "You will need to use math for the rest of your life." Yeah. We still say this today, but students are seeing no reasoning behind that saying. It wasn't until I began to teach math, that I understood this infamous quote.
One thing that I have taken into the classroom after being in Cambridge is making math relatable to students by connecting it to the real world. This week, as we are still working on multiplication and division, we introduced arrays. I thought to myself it wasn’t enough to show students a box or rectangle of equal groups of shapes. This model had nothing to do with the “real world” purpose of using arrays. With the help of Pinterest and an idea from another third grade teacher, I was going to plan for my students to have a classroom scavenger hunt for arrays.
Last week I got the pleasure of teaching what I think has been my most successful lesson yet. To summarize, my lesson was about creating hypotheses and testing them with the question “What would happen if everyone threw their trash on the ground for a day?” We tested our hypotheses by throwing paper on the ground in our classroom to help visualize how the Earth might look, while I also read an article that talked about what happens with trash and what we can do to decrease the amount of trash we make. There were so many elements that I incorporated into this lesson. The students really loved it!
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