Shark Lady
Minds On
What do you think of when you see this picture?
How does this picture make you feel?
Take a sticky note, and draw a picture or write a word that shows how you feel about these animals.
As a table group organize your sticky notes into categories that make sense to you. Make sure to label your categories!
Quick Alternative: Use a thumbs up or thumbs down to quickly gauge student voice.
Not -so-Quick other Alternative: How might students generate a human graph to show their voice (Love, Afraid, Undecided?)
Let's Read!
Learning Goals
- I can identify and restate information from the text with some interesting details
- I can gather information and organize ideas to support my thinking
- I can identify characteristics of a few text forms
- I can identify some text features (ie - diagrams and labels) and explain how they help readers
- I can create multimedia artifacts to communicate and share my thinking
Let's Make!
There are plenty of artifacts we can create to share our learning about sharks.
Make some connections through research!
Use the PebbleGo database to learn more about sharks.
Use cue cards to write/draw three things you have learned.
Make a shark sensory bottle!
Make a bottle to share some of the facts you've generated.
What type of shark might you create?
How big will it need to be?
Can you include something they'd eat?
How big will need to be in comparison?
Make and label a shark out of loose parts!
One of the activities you can complete in the PebbleGo database is a diagram of a shark, labelling all of its body parts.
What if students created a shark of their own with loose parts and created their own labels?
I bought my wooden arrows from Stockade.ca. I bought the 4 inch arrows...thinking maybe I should have purchased the 2 inch ones :}.
How might you create a shark out of pattern blocks?
Begin with a template and then explore shapes of your own!
What type of shark have you created?
How might you describe it?
What shapes have you used?
How did you create it?
How might you share your learning with others?
What might you modify?
Make Scratch Jr animation to showcase your shark facts!
Use the app ChatterPix to share your shark facts!
Make a shark come alive in 3D VR!
Make a mind map using Mindomo to share your learning!
Reflect and Connect
Think about it:
What skills and competencies are students developing while learning?
How might we document, share, reflect and connect with our learning communities in order to drive thinking forward?
Create, reflect upon and share learning via a documentation panel or audit trail
How might this panel provide you more insight to what is happening in the learning environment?
How might this panel spark dialogue and discussion about teaching and learning practices?
How might this panel empower learners (students and teachers)?
How might you caption the learning? How might the students?
What might you continue to wonder in order to drive learning forward?
Document and share learning with a learning story
Forest of Reading learning journals and badges
What if students documented their learning with a learning journal created with Google Slides?
What if students got badges for the skills they used through Forest of Reading learning opportunities?
