Science in Motion!
We had a lot of movement in the science lab this week, and I definitely got my daily step allotment in! My seventh grade students were conducting student choice labs, so in order to help the labs run smoothly they were spread out across the area outside of my classroom. There was a lot of movement between the groups since most of the students were conducting labs in which they were having classmates participate in the lab (mostly through taste-testing to see how much sight and smell had an effect on taste). This led me to putting in a lot of steps between groups, checking in on their progress and results (and possibly participating in a few of the labs as well)!
The eighth grade classes were moving a lot as well, but that was more due to the lessons I was doing with them. The students have been learning about the rock cycle this week, and we have a quiz tomorrow. One of my lessons was a review of the science notes they have been taking to help them study, so we did a TRIBES activity called "Milling to Music." I queued up some songs that had "rock" in the title and played them while the students "milled" around the room. When the music stopped, they needed to partner up with someone nearby and quiz each other with questions they made from their notes. They also needed to work together to answer some questions that I displayed. Hopefully the review will yield some positive results. Another lesson I planned for the students to get them moving was to have them move through the rock cycle as though they were rocks. One of the concepts we are learning about is examining stability and change within the rock cycle and identifying how long it takes to rocks to change when going through the cycle. I found the idea for the lesson on a website but no specific resources to carry it out, so I made my own. Every student started out at a certain place in the rock cycle and then needed to roll dice to see what would happen next. They would then need to write what happened to them and what they changed into (if they changed at all). A few students struggled at first but then got the hang of it, and I think it really helped them to move to the different stations to be part of cycle and grasp the amount of time a rock may be in one form before changing. I have a link to the resources I used in case you would like to use them :-) A Rock's Journey
With both grade levels in full swing and learning different concepts, it is definitely keeping me busy. But I'm hanging in their and moving right along with the students!
Mindfulness thought for the week: Success is the sum of small efforts repeated every day.
I need to give thanks to Tom J. Deters, host of the ProYou Podcast, for this piece of advice for my students (and me)!
The eighth grade classes were moving a lot as well, but that was more due to the lessons I was doing with them. The students have been learning about the rock cycle this week, and we have a quiz tomorrow. One of my lessons was a review of the science notes they have been taking to help them study, so we did a TRIBES activity called "Milling to Music." I queued up some songs that had "rock" in the title and played them while the students "milled" around the room. When the music stopped, they needed to partner up with someone nearby and quiz each other with questions they made from their notes. They also needed to work together to answer some questions that I displayed. Hopefully the review will yield some positive results. Another lesson I planned for the students to get them moving was to have them move through the rock cycle as though they were rocks. One of the concepts we are learning about is examining stability and change within the rock cycle and identifying how long it takes to rocks to change when going through the cycle. I found the idea for the lesson on a website but no specific resources to carry it out, so I made my own. Every student started out at a certain place in the rock cycle and then needed to roll dice to see what would happen next. They would then need to write what happened to them and what they changed into (if they changed at all). A few students struggled at first but then got the hang of it, and I think it really helped them to move to the different stations to be part of cycle and grasp the amount of time a rock may be in one form before changing. I have a link to the resources I used in case you would like to use them :-) A Rock's Journey
With both grade levels in full swing and learning different concepts, it is definitely keeping me busy. But I'm hanging in their and moving right along with the students!
Mindfulness thought for the week: Success is the sum of small efforts repeated every day.
I need to give thanks to Tom J. Deters, host of the ProYou Podcast, for this piece of advice for my students (and me)!
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