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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Our Class Can ...

Learning Target: 
  • I can describe the strengths of my science class community
HOWLs Target:
  • participate in my classroom and community by listening, looking, suggesting, and trying.
Agenda
  • Warm-up: SCIENCE CLASS (2min)
    • What should a well functioning science class look, smell, and sound like on a good day?
  • Classroom mini-tour
  • Build a tower
    • objective: be the class with the tallest tower
    • materials: scrap paper, ruler, scissors, pencil, heavy paper
    • rules:
      • tower can be made from only one piece of paper
      • no tape, glue, staples, gum, spit, etc. can be used to stick pieces of paper together
      • tower must be free standing for 10 seconds (or long enough to be measured by official measurer)
      • towers can be measured more than once, the highest version will be counted
    • timing:
      • 5 minutes of planning
      • deep breath
      • 20 minutes of building
  • What Went Well? (WWW?)
    • individual
    • table group
    • report out
  • Strengths of class: Our class can ...
Homework:
  • gather supplies (a notebook, a mess of pencils, a folder)