Inspired by John Larmer's Blog in Edutopia, titled: Start the Year With a Project...or Wait?, our 5th grade teachers decided to... Start the Year With a Project.
Using his suggestions, they introduced one of each of the 4C's through hands on collaborative activities each day.
Using his suggestions, they introduced one of each of the 4C's through hands on collaborative activities each day.
The foundation they built during the second week of school will grow as students embark on a yet to be determined service learning project. This ties into the Bluebonnet Book they are reading: Laugh with the Moon, by Shana Burg
Day 1: Critical Thinking
Students participated in a teacher-led discussion to increase their awareness of what critical thinking was.
Students participated in a teacher-led discussion to increase their awareness of what critical thinking was.
Day 2: Divergent Th
Critical thinking, collaborating communicating
Mission Difficult ( not mission possible)
Worm
Activity
Get the life saver to the worm with a paper clip
No hands only paper clip
10 minutes
Roles on slide
See photos
Practicing group skills.. See above
Didn't have to accomplish task to be successful
Shared as a group how accomplished skills...
"We all had a fifferent idea do we decided to try them all..."
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