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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Response to Ms Colette Bell's math webinar

I enjoyed the webinar by Ms Colette. The last weeks of school were hectic and it was fun for the kids to revisit some of the math tasks from earlier in the year. They completed them with a little more confidence. We talked about their growth as 4th grader and as a math student. Now that they had an understanding of the math standards I had them focus on being able to teach it to their partners.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Response to John Roberts' Science Webinar

I really enjoyed watching Mr. Roberts' webinar on heat transfer. While his webinar covered 5th grade standards, I chose a 4th grade physical science standard activity with my class. Ms Harn's class and my class got together and made paper roller coasters. Last year one of our science sessions introduced us to them. Our students looked up YouTube videos and we enlisted help from some middle school students to help assemble the various pieces, but the our 4th graders in collaborative groups designed and constructed the coasters together themselves.

Response to Geno's Season Webinar

I really enjoyed watching Geno's webinar on the seasons. I decided to recreate the same foldable to help solidify my students understanding of what causes the various seasons on Earth. Students often think that the Earth's position in its rotation around the Sun is what causes the seasons. This activity helps clear up this misconception and demonstrates that the seasons are caused by the tilting of the Earth forward and backward on its axis.

Fraction webinar with Jacqueline Burns

Earlier in the year 4th grade uses the performance task "Fraction Cookies" from Georgia DOE's Unit 4 frameworks. After watching Ms Burn's webinar on fractions, I decided to revisit this performance task. In this task, my students add multiple factions which will give them an improper fraction. Then they converted the improper fraction to a mixed number.