We are doing a mad dash to the finish line to get ready for our Expert Project Fair, which starts tomorrow. The students are excited to share their learning on the Era of Expansion in the U.S. Our target audience is the CMS Fifth Grade, as they “requested” we help introduce them to this topic. This year we completed projects in less than two weeks. As a result, much of the display and product creation happened at home, while research and thesis paragraph writing was supported at school. Students worked, at their own pacing, through a series of six online lessons in the computer lab and signed up to conference with me as needed. They were challenged to find reliable and relevant sources, create an annotated bibliography, and answer an essential question in a mini thesis essay. In addition to this they created 3-D interactive displays that would draw their 5th Grade audience in. As was expected, the energy has been high, and while students have not always been on the steps I thought they should be, everyone has been engaged with their independently chosen topics.
During the day of the project fair we will have the room set up as stations. I will ask your students to come and sit in the middle of the room for a welcome, and then we will send them to rotate through each station in groups of two-three. I will signal when it is time to move to the next station and we will rotate clockwise.
Here is a link to the topics/projects that will be covered by each of my sections.
Link to project topics by section: http://moodle.cms.edu.do/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=13805
During the day of the project fair we will have the room set up as stations. I will ask your students to come and sit in the middle of the room for a welcome, and then we will send them to rotate through each station in groups of two-three. I will signal when it is time to move to the next station and we will rotate clockwise.
Here is a link to the topics/projects that will be covered by each of my sections.
Link to project topics by section: http://moodle.cms.edu.do/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=13805