We have been collaborating to chose an animal for our classroom to study.
I told my kids that our principal wanted us to pick an animal so we have been trying to decide on the animal for the past few days.
Yesterday, we narrowed it down between a turtle and a rabbit. To decide, the class voted anonymously by placing a magnetic unifix cube in either the turtle box or the rabbit box; then we decided to make the cubes into a graph. Students then had to tell our principal about their choice by describing our graph. This was the most meaningful work I have ever seen some of the students do. Here is an example of their work:
http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=lPzLj04
We used the app "show me" to describe the graph. First, the kids used their iPads to photograph the graph on the white board, then they had to manipulate the graph and record the meaning of it while asking for their rabbit.
I am loving the app show me; it's a wonderful tool to use in the math classroom.
It gives students confidence because they can vocally express themselves, then listen to their recordings to hear how they sound, they learn to recognize if their diction makes sense.
My goal for next week is to explore using it during writing and
reading. I believe it may be very powerful to sound out words while writing them.
