Teacher(s) Name: Ms. Royal, Ms. Perry
School: Carver ES
Grade Level(s): Grade 3
Content Area(s): Creative Communication, Reading
Lesson Summary
Mind full or Mindful? Mindfulness is an important but often difficult concept for students to grasp. After learning about mindfulness from their school counselor, students in Mrs. Royal’s class were tasked with developing digital stories in Scratch to teach about a mindfulness concept. Student had to use their critical thinking and problem solving along with creativity and innovation to develop their digital stories in Scratch to reinforce their knowledge of mindfulness. Their digital stories were also uploaded to a website in order to be used in the future for class lessons by their school counselor.
TIPC Ratings
Research & Information Fluency
Rating:Not Observed – Explanation: Was not a focus of this lesson.
Communication & Collaboration
Rating: Approaching – Explanation: While this lesson was done individually by students, it fits into the approaching category of communication and collaboration. Students had to choose how to appropriately convey their mindfulness concept to others while their project will go beyond their class walls when their school counselor shares them as a teaching tool with other students.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: This lesson fits into the idea category of critical thinking and problem solving. Students were able to choose their own mindfulness concept and then had to decide how to best tell a story to teach others this concept. They also had to problem solve and “debug” their Scratch programs when something did not work the way that they wanted it to.
Creativity & Innovation
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: This lesson fits into the ideal category of creativity and innovation. Students had to synthesize existing and self-generated knowledge to create their Scratch project while doing so in a way that was easy for others to understand.
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