Science+Readers-FQR

=Science Weekly Readers: Using Google Drive for Student Fact Question Responses=


 * **Title**: ||< Weekly Science Reader FQR ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Science and LA ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 5th ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< Off and On all year (another choice for student responses) ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Activity: Students were sent directions on how to submit a Fact/Question/Response (FQR) to their “google drive” account (integrated with Language Arts). Students were told to access their “shared folder” and create an FQR on their weekly science reader that was sent home. For homework students then created an FQR and sent it to me through their google drive. Next, they are going to create another FQR for their next weekly reader and share their work with three other kids who have the same book as them in other classes and respond to their FQR through goggle drive. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< Teacher Directions: How to Create a FQR - Fact, Question, Response (connection to the text)

1) Please include 2 Facts, 2 Questions, 2 Responses (must have real world connections to the text) 2) Facts- Two sentences of information from the text. 3) Questions- These stem from your fact. What questions do you have about this fact? 4) Response- Your connection to the text. What connections/responses do you have from your life to help you remember the fact you wrote about.

-If you have been at Wilchester, you should know how to complete an FQR. You have been working with this format for 3 years. If you are new to Wilchester, we have discussed this procedure in class, in detail and you should be able to follow these directions. I have included a student example for you to view. ||
 * Objectives: ||< This targets objectives in MANY different areas for science, reading, writing, and technology. ||
 * Assessment: ||< This is one of many projects, activities that students will use throughout the year. We are compiling a list of activities/ choices that students can use to respond and share on science weekly readers (nonfiction text) ||
 * Resources: ||< * weekly reader (non-fiction books sent home weekly)
 * computer
 * google drive account ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || This went very well and my teaching partner for the LA block is going to tweak the lesson by reviewing with the kids how to improve on writing FQR's. It is a lot of work for teachers in the beginning and checking all of the responses takes quite a bit time. However, the students will now be sharing their work with each other and responding according to what they have learned in class (teaching role turned over to kids). ||
 * **Examples**: ||< This is a student's work that I received on their FQR (October 2013).

F Q R- Fact , Question <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;">, <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Response <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;">)

//__<span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;">The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth __//

<span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;">By: Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen

<span style="color: #4a86e8; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Fact #1: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> The outer shell of the earth is made up of layers of hard rock and soil that it is called earth’s crust.

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Question #1: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> What is soil?

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Response #1: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;">Soil is a substance made out of small pebbles, sticks, bits of dead leaves, and clay mixed with broken up rock. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Chewy,serif;">LIFE CONNECTION: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> There is always rock and soil under you.

<span style="color: #4a86e8; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Fact #2: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> A volcano is an opening in the earth’s crust were hot boiling rock can flow out.

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Question #2: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> What is hot boiling rock?

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Chewy,serif;">Response #2: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> Hot boiling rock is known as magma or lava. When magma or lava cools, it hardens into rock. It takes years for soil to form again and new plants to grow so animals can live there and grow. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Chewy,serif;">LIFE CONNECTION: <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;"> There are many Volcanoes and Volcanic eruptions that have happened around our world and I saw one in Hawaii with my family and took home volcanic ash. <span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: Chewy,serif;">EXAMPLE- <span style="font-family: Chewy,serif;">Volcanoes: Mount Vesuvius and Mount St. Helens ||

Discussion:
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