Elementary Student Projects

Cardboard Arcade Project

Students have been working very hard with creating cardboard games from scratch for our Kindergarten classmates and friends! This is a collaborative and hands-on project that draws interest and engagement from all students. These questions are the base and foundation for this project.

Essential Questions: What makes a strong community? How do games connect us through collaboration and play? How do game designers tell a story with their game?

Driving Question: How can we, as engineers, design and build something to strengthen and support our community?

Copy of Project Planner: Cardboard Arcade - Think Outside the Box

CGI Math Lesson

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Here is some footage from a recent CGI Story Problem.
Students were asked this question: Four children each want to eat a fourth of a waffle. How many waffles should I make to feed the 4 children? What if I want to feed 8 children the same amount per child?
Comprehension: Should I make more or less than 4 waffles?Should I make more or less than 8 waffles?
Number Sentence: 4 x 1/4 = 8 x 1/4 =

This lesson directly builds off of their previous lesson learning about how to cut a square shape into multiple equal parts. With this context, we learn what it means to create equal parts and how to build them into fraction form. Students will understand what value is placed at the numerator and what value is placed at the denominator.

Lesson Goals:Students will be able to identify four equal parts in various ways on a square. Students will be able to correctly write one part as ¼ as a fraction. Students will be able to think deeply and collaborate with each other into figuring out to solve this problem.
Lesson Standards:CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.1Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.

Leveled Literacy Intervention

I've been working with a bright and brilliant group of fourth-graders with Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)! As a group, we decided to name ourselves the "Foxes Reading Group" and agreed on creating group agreements as we work together to support each other's learning progress. Each meeting we either start, complete, and reflect on our current non-fiction book. Whenever we first introduce a new book, we review the vocabulary and break down new/difficult words.

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Leveled Literacy Intervention is a key component for reading support. This is a group that I meet with every week to direct a new book! When we connect, we make sure we make connections from our previous book, make predictions for our next book, and make wonderings throughout the book. We identify what the table of contents represents, why images are placed in certain places, what titles and caption boxes mean, and how to identify non-fiction vs fiction. Here is some footage from a recent session.

PRIMARY

Orange System, 2ed.Kindergarten (Levels A–E)

Green System, 2ed.Grade 1 (Levels A–K)

Blue System, 2ed. Grade 2 (Levels C–N)

INTERMEDIATE

Red System,Grade 3 (Levels L–Q)

Gold System,Grade 4 (Levels O–T)

MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL

Purple System,Grade 5 (Levels R–W)

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