Enhancing Lessons with Technology
Click the .ppt file below to download one of the many presentations I created and animated to enhance learning within the classroom. This particular .ppt was a supplemental presentation for 4th grade students struggling to understand that conversion between units correlated to multiplication and division skills (as well as properties of decimals).
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Integrating Math, Literacy and the Arts
It is my belief that education and learning are best fostered when its foundations are explored within the classroom through authentic experiences. In a multi-age classroom setting (K,1,2) I developed activities using a SMARTboard to discuss and compare colors, size and directional concepts in a literacy rich project. Students were initially provided physical manipulatives (shape pieces of varying color and size) to model and create a story scene.
Eventually, the math and literacy activity evolved into a two-week art project. Students built their own 'image' or 'picture' using the shape manipulatives to design a setting for a story character. Students described their setting orally while a peer faced the opposite direction and drew a picture based on the oral description. Both students would discuss ways in which either the oral/written description or the listening skills could be enhanced.
The students collaborated with their peers to determine a common story character to develop a class storybook that included all of the various settings. Students selected Dora the Explorer as their story character. She traveled through fields of flowers and conquered ferocious zoo animals throughout the 23 various settings of our class book.
Eventually, the math and literacy activity evolved into a two-week art project. Students built their own 'image' or 'picture' using the shape manipulatives to design a setting for a story character. Students described their setting orally while a peer faced the opposite direction and drew a picture based on the oral description. Both students would discuss ways in which either the oral/written description or the listening skills could be enhanced.
The students collaborated with their peers to determine a common story character to develop a class storybook that included all of the various settings. Students selected Dora the Explorer as their story character. She traveled through fields of flowers and conquered ferocious zoo animals throughout the 23 various settings of our class book.