Building Vocabulary with a Morphing Mindset
Students will explore vocabulary words from other content areas and apply their learning of word parts to find meaning.
Teacher working with students
Which One Doesn't Belong? Proportional vs Non-Proportional Relationships
Students will make connections as they examine proportional and non-proportional relationships represented in functions including tables, equations, graphs, and verbal descriptions and think critically to determine which one does not belong in a set and why.
Outside observers watching students working
Explain Your Thinking!
Students will use numberless and numbered logic problems as well as a rubric to practice self-reflection and justify their thinking.
Sound Detectives
Through the application of mentor text, various poetry, cooperative learning, self and peer-evaluation, and sound devices, students will build self-motivation to better appreciate and understand the author’s usage of sound devices in poetry.
Example of What Students Hear
Balancing Act
Given a prompt, students will solve a multi-step equation using concrete and/or pictorial models.
Teacher Posing the Task
Breakout with Linear Relationships
Through a collaborative breakout station format, students will access prior knowledge to develop a deeper understanding of the relationships of slope through proportional relationships represented by unit rate and linear non-proportional relationships. A variety of representations will be practiced through scenarios, tables, graphs, and equations.
Why Would They Say That?
Students will analyze multiple texts on the same topic to identify the text structures used and find each author’s purpose.
Teacher compares author's purpose in text to the purposes of eating utensils.
Solving Multi-Step Word Problems with Rational Numbers
Students will apply strategies and the use of an analysis tool to break down steps in a word problem to understand the vocabulary and processes necessary to apply correct math operations and analyze solution feasibility.
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Through teacher modeling, blended learning stations, self-monitoring, and developing and responding to questioning strategies of reciprocal teaching, students will be able to examine a variety of visual and written expository texts and compare how the authors achieved similar or different purposes.
Fraction Division is Sweet
In learning stations, students use concrete objects, pictorial models, and digital models to represent and divide whole numbers by unit fractions and unit fractions by whole numbers.
Reread, Revise, Revive!
Students will use the revision process to turn simple sentences into compound sentences.