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Our City of Ember building!

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As we are beginning a novel, City of Ember, we worked on prereading strategies and activities to prepare us for the story.

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The idea of using each Monday for Terms 2-3 to complete a project based on a problem that students came up with.

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For the beginning of the second semester, we focused on Non-fiction texts and their features.  The first topic was on Missouri and the historical impact and timeline of our local community on modern society.

Student were to work in small groups to research and develop a timeline of cause and effects examining and explaining how Missouri has evolved to be the way it is today.  They then gathered this information and presented it on a poster to showcase the top 8 most important categories that have impacted modern society.

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Reflection: Looking back on my journey this year towards my stated goals, I veered from the path to make my students learning more applicable to their own lives.  I tweaked and changed my views on the learning stations and 

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Reflection: Looking back on my journey this year towards my stated goals, I veered from the path to make my students learning more applicable to their own lives.  I tweaked and changed my views on the learning stations and 

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This lesson was my most recent successful STEM lesson. I incorporated critical thinking and collaboration for students to analyze and discover many STEM careers that are essential to saving our environment.

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My goals for the year are to incorporate more data monitoring for both students and myself.  Also, to  integrate learning stations where students are in control of their learning.

My STEM indicators are Communication, Collaboration and Critical thinking.

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http://growthandinnovationinela.blogspot.com/

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My most recent find has been scratch.com. This is a "free programming language and online community where students can create their own interactive stories, games and animations". I have introduced this to a a few beta- tester students, to allow them a differentiated opportunity to be assessed on our most recent literature study.