Alice+D,+Summer+2013+Activity+Design

=Put a Short Activity/Lesson/Project Title Here=

learned, student generated questions and answer, videos of their learning, and extra examples to help clarify learning. || Please identify opportunities for differentiation. || Reflections: || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round.... ||
 * **Title**: ||< Math Interactive Notebook ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Math ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 6-8 ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< On going ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Students will add pages to a class interactive notebook which will serve to be a resource for the grade level. They will document the vocabulary
 * **Tasks**: ||< Included on each page:
 * Wordle of math vocabulary to reflect how little or much the class knows about the vocabulary for each unit (scribe duty)
 * Students will brainstorm vocabulary words that they know about a new unit and submit them to the class scribe.
 * The scribe will create a frequency chart of the vocabulary and input onto Wordle. This will give provide an insight into what the cognitive understanding of the concept is of the class.
 * Students create videos of learning activities through the year (all students' input)
 * Students generate questions about the content of before each unit is taught and submit to a Google Doc. which will be embedded
 * A historical or real world application of the content learned (Class researcher duty)
 * Students will conduct a google search using different extensions to notice the difference in the quality of their search for a historical perspective or mathematician/ and or real world application
 * A discussion page between class periods to offer insights or suggestions
 * Class examples of work (video or photograph) ||
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? ||
 * Assessment: ||< * Student responses to the questions generated at the beginning of the unit.
 * Unit quizzes and exams
 * Resources: ||< * What resources will be needed?
 * Ipad, I Mac, or PC
 * Wordle
 * Google Sites
 * Explain Everything
 * Evernote ||
 * Teacher
 * Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

Discussion:
Use the Embed Widget tool to add a Discussion Area widget. Bump the number to 100. This will take the comments from the discussion tab and add them to the bottom of the page. This will encourage teacher reflection and modification.