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.
Things we going to do promote high level learning skills:
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How this week's work will be measured
We are planning to add Social Studies and English into our annual science/math field trip. We are going to specifically use observation and inquiry skills in all the cores as applied to this trip. Students will use mapping skills and reflective journaling. As well as geocaching and other measuring skills with some data sets. To measure this, we are going to give the kids all the skills they need on the bus, and see if they can use their critical thinking skills to make it back home with their newly found critical thinking skills.
ok, really, how will I measure this? We will see when we come back next week, how many new ideas have spawned from this meeting for the next field trip.
Science observation, testing, data analysis, and conclusions on water quality, watersheds, and invertebrates as how they relate to the ecological aspects of the lake area.
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This weeks work will not be measured until later.
I am excited to see what this group comes up with. The project based learning is exciting and getting all of the core subjects into it will be great.
ReplyDeleteKen--I hope the blogging becomes a simple way of recording and sharing your work as well.