Boundary Breaker: Humpty Dumpty was pushed! Who did it and why?
Today we learned to play the code breaking game, Mastermind, as we focused on using information to make a logical decision as critical thinkers. They really enjoyed this and were getting pretty good at using their clues to eliminate possibilities! We played the old fashioned way but to play at home, you can use this link!
Our ancient civilizations project focus today was looking at the FINDS model of research. We are using the FINDS checklist to help students address the task in a step by step manner. They were able to explore sources helpful to their topic on our Symbaloo Site and begin to use their digital notebooks for citing sources and note taking.
Research checklist: FINDS
Focus
_____ Civilization you will research ______________
_____ Topic (Cultural Universal ) you will research ________________
Investigate and choose resources
_____ Explore Symbaloo web site and choose web sites
_____ Explore books and choose books to use for research
_____ Site the sources that were used in taking notes
Notes
_____ Type notes in the digital notebook about your cultural universal from the resources chosen
_____ Describe at least 3 artifacts that are part of your cultural universal
Develop notes into project
_____ Write a research paragraph on your topic from your notes
_____ Create an artifact, model or visual about your topic
Score work
_____ Complete check list
_____ Rubric
_____ Reflection
As an example of an artifact resulting from research, we looked at notes and a project exemplar on Ancient Rome's Art. The example used research to describe the role of the mosaic in Roman culture. Students then got to create their own highlighting a scene or pattern from their daily life.
We wrapped up the day by taking a second look at our math check-ups to make corrections and review some of the errors and misunderstandings that we had. In general students did very well!
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