Last Friday #TechTakeout had the pleasure of going out to Ratcliffe Elementary. We had a blast doing computation with fractions! We first started off doing a Kahoot to get everyone warmed up. It was 5 easy fraction questions, just enough to get everyone excited. Here’s the link to the Kahoot if you want to use it in your classroom. The students then split into four groups and each did a different activity involving fractions.
While the students were working we had the 3D printer going! The students loved watching the printer work. Since our focus was fractions for the lesson we printed two fraction pies for each class. We downloaded the templates here, changed the colors of the pies, and then printed while in the class. Our Elementary Instructional Technology department wrote a grant last year to the Henrico Educational Foundation for the 3D printer. We have been using it in classrooms across the county in multiple curriculum areas with huge success.
Mrs. Green and Mrs. Smith used fraction manipulatives to solve fraction addition problems on this manipulatives website. http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html
Then they took a screen shot of their work using the snipping tool and uploaded it onto http://www.abcya.com/talkify.htm to make their work talk. They added their mouths and recorded their voices. Here is an example.
fraction talk from Sarah Green on Vimeo.
Mr. Covais and Ms. Browne had students copy a Google Slides template to add fractions with unlike denominators. They worked in partners to find a common denominator and dragged stars to represent their problems. After that, they saved their pictures to their desktop and uploaded it to the website, Educreations. They recorded their voices explaining how they solved their problems.
Mr. Caratachea and Mrs. Robinson’s group worked on simplifying fractions. The students all signed in as a guest to a newer resource called BoardThing. This resource is somewhat similar to Padlet but has some different features. Prior to starting the lesson Mrs. Robinson and Mr. C uploaded 5 images and placed them across the top. When the students joined the board they each picked a different colored post-it note to use for their fractions. Then they placed their names on the post it placed it under the flag they were racing to. Then we were ready to start our game. We found an awesome set of fraction task cards that we printed, laminated and took into the classrooms. Each kid started with one task card. Their job was to reduce the fraction to the simplest form and then create a post-it note on our BoardThing. Then they placed their post-it in their column and worked their way to the finish flag. We had an awesome time racing to the top! Check out one of our BoardThing walls!
Mrs. Hues and Ms. Wright did Nearpod on fractions.
Students had to fill in the blank, find common denominators, watch a video, and take a short quiz. Students watched a short quiz in Educreations on how to find the common denominator without multiplying the two fractions together.Students then practiced what they learned on Nearpod. At the very end students had a mini quiz for review.
We had a blast coming out to Ratcliffe! We can’t wait to bring #TechTakeout to the next school!
