Shapes, Shapes, Everywhere

TIPC Ratings

The teacher has modeled how to find and record shapes, the students are left to complete the research and use the research to guide their work at other stations. During the journal writing, the students are applying information they already knew and learned to complete an authentic task. They are also assembling and organzing shapes to complete the sort and collage stations.

The students are given some choice in forming groups, the students are left to complete assignments with partner without direct supervision. In most stations they are required to collaborate to solve or address an authentic task like the iPad picture hunt and shape sorting stations. In some stations (iPad photos/ Dropbox, MacBooks, the sort with digital camera, and iBeam presentation at the close of the lesson) students are asked to use appropriate digital tools to facilitate collaboration.

Students use higher level thinking to solve open-ended questions in the writing prompt station, sorting station, and collage station. They are required to generate responses and problem solve.

Students were using research, collaboration, and critical thinking in all stations to complete tasks given. In the journal station, they were making predictions and creating original work. Students were also create original work in the pattern block station by making animals that could be constructed in a number of different ways. At the end of the lesson, students were required to self reflect on their behavior and to what they could do better the next time.