Big Eleven and Kill Creek Planning

1)  What are we going to do over the next week that contributes to our PLC learning topic?





We are working to collaboratively link the content of Ms. Hornberger's and Dr. Hotz's study of Kill Creek and Big Eleven Lake to Mr. Willard's English writing skill standards and Ms. Kircher's geography and history standards.  Continuing the work they did last year to now include both the global freshman and sophomores.

We will be taking the Math/Science material and observational data and use it as the subject for students writing. We will also be exploring the geographical landscape and the ways that land use have changed overtime.


2)  How does this contribute to student learning?





This affects student learning by allowing students to work with cross-curricular information and see the real world connection of their daily work, thus growing their critical thinking skills. We will also be integrating professionals in many fields to expose students to possible career paths.

 

3)  How will the impact of this week’s work be measured?
The impact of this weeks work will be measured as we complete our first multigrade, multidiscipline field trip in October. Specific rubrics and the like are still in a state of creation.

Testing 1,2,3

Okay, this is my attempt to go back and access this blog.

This is just a test.

Ken Willard's reflection on PLC's plan to expand student experience in Science, and fully integrate other non-science domains

Things we going to do promote high level learning skills- We are working on collaboratively linking the content of Ms. Hornberger's and Dr. Hotz's study of Kill Creek lake to the English writing skill standards. Basically, what we will do is take the Math/Science material and observational data and use it as the subject for students writing, like free writing, writing in genre (writing their impressions first, then writing effective descriptions, and finally, reflecting on how their thinking has been changed by the experience.

Contributing to student learning: This directly affects student learning by focusing student work into activities that are integrated, directly into the experience they will have. In other words, the learning and the experience will be both in and of the same thing. The learning will be the activity, ongoing and kinetic.

How this week's work will be measured at this point, will for me, mostly focused on exercising -practicing immediate writing activities. The students will get used to writing, on a fast and regular basis.

And I hope, against all hope that this blogging that you are either reading, or not reading will be paired down to a few simple actions, which will allow me to get back here -and not be chasing around trying to log in.