Spring Break

It has been a while since I have posted, so I have a few goodies that I plan to share in the next few days to catch you up on the activities that were considered successes.  The first one was how I dealt with students who would rather talk about Spring Break plans than do work.  Kids on the day before any long vacation are not at their prime for learning.  Keeping this in mind, I created a review egg hunt.  The problems were scattered around the room/hidden and they had to try and find them to solve.  When they completed the question, I asked them to put it in a new location to keep the hunt a little more exciting. They did well for the review considering domain and range is sometimes a challenging section.  Also, some of the eggs were silly note the back of the red egg in the picture.

Next, I used a graphing activity from math aid.  We were going into a graphing unit next, so I used it to see who could graph and who could.  They turned out to be cute and added color to my walls.

Multi-Step activity

So my students will need tons of practice on this section.  Previous to our quiz today, I had the students walk around the class and answer each question of the set of 8.  Once they have solve a problem, they find the card matching the solution.  They should complete all 8 problems.  If they didn't solve all 8, then they need to revisit their work.  If they can't find their answer, they need to revisit their work.

I send them in groups of three or four depending on the size of the class, so there isn't a pile up.  If class all end up at the same equation, I may sit them down in groups and allow them a "runner" to get the next equation.  I'll post an update on it later today, since I didn't share any goodies yesterday.

So I take back my comment...

Two of my students gained from the oragami envelopes. One sent a version of the envelope in the mail to their family members and another said she went in exploration of other oragami that weekend. Isn't this our goal as educators?  We strive to inspire students to take initiative outside of the classroom. So my never again will actually reappear. I was ecstatic to see a lesson encourage independent learning!