Hello all!
I cannot believe that this will be my last post for EDBE 8F83! Soon we will be off to our second and third teaching blocks, and I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by. It feels like we were just in September starting our Teacher's College journey.
This week in class we finished off presentations with Workplace and Locally Developed Learning Activities. The activities that were presented were very practical and followed a fun and exciting format.
The first presentation was done by Jenny, who focused on
Grade Eleven Workplace. This activity was to have students plan a trip such as bowling or the movies. Each student was given a worksheet with the following steps:
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1. Budget
2. Destination
3. Transportation
4. Cost of Activity
5. Food and Beverages
This activity was particularly great because of how practical it was for students. Often in mathematics students find themselves wondering how the math they do in class could ever relate to the real world. But this activity provides students with an activity that relates directly to their world. This is something that students may already be doing; planning a trip based on budget, destination, transportation, cost and food.
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The next activity was presented by Courtney and focused on Grade Ten Locally Developed Mathematics. Her activity was similar to Jenny's, but instead of planning a day trip students were asked to plan an adventure. This wasn't limited to a day trip, and could have many different possibilities. The activity started with picking three departure time cards and three arrival time cards. The first task was to calculate how long each of the three trips would be. Next we picked one of those trip times, and had to plan an adventure based on those times. Our adventure could be any activity of our choice, but we had to use at least one form of public transit. I thought this activity was so much fun and gave students a lot of freedom in planning their adventure.
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The last presentation was done by Teagan who focused on Grade Nine Locally Developed Mathematics. Her activity was focused on Breaking a World Record and Proportional Reasoning. We watched a video of a guy clapping very fast for 4.5 seconds and had to make a prediction of whether or not he would break the world record of 721 hand claps in one minute. In 4.5 seconds he clapped 63 times. We needed to use our proportional reasoning skills to make a prediction. My group used cross multiplication and guessed 840 claps in one minute. We were then shown a second video that showed the same guy clapping 485 times in 35.9 seconds. This second video allowed us to make a more accurate prediction of 810. In the end, he did beat the record with 802 claps. I thought this activity was awesome and was something that would really interest Grade Nine students.
Overall, these activities all had a common thread. They were all practical, real world activities. They were activities that students would find interesting and useful in their own lives.
