Today we used many scaffolds. Choose one scaffold you used today. How would that scaffold help a student develop one or more of the Core Thinking Skills? Explain your answer.
The Excel graphing functions were AMAZING. Core thinking skills: Analyzing infomation. With the graphs, students can visually compare the collected data-I can't wait to use this for my simple machines unit. It will allow us to determine if we got reasonable answers for our investigations-if most groups are showing that it took (for example) 15 joules of work to lift the hex nuts and one group says it took 35 we can analyze their data to see how they got a different answer.
Today I used the show/hide tool to scaffold a book report. This scaffold would help students to organize information into new formats, because students are sorting information from a book into story elements such as character, setting, etc. It would also allow students to produce a new product, since the book report is an organized summary that the student has created.
The Rocks scaffold would help a student develop skills on organizing information by having them sort into categories. Additionally, they would develop skills analyzing information by having to decide what category each rock would fit into.
I would use the rocks graph scaffold as a math tool to introduce the vocabulary word "attribute". We could use the attribute blocks to make graphs and help us understand what an attribute is so the students can then take that information and apply it to the attribute game. This is a great way to introduce new material as well as provide a stepping stool to analyze that data at a future point during the math game.
To be honest with you, I really liked the poetry magnet scaffold because it leaves endless possibilities for individual students, partner pairs, and small groups of students. An individual student can take the same group of words and rearrange them to make so many different kinds of poems. This hits the Digital Scaffolding List of developing "new, deeper AND creative learning". The word choices that were made allowed both boys and girls to be fully engaged in the poems.
The Kindergarten sentence building scaffold (with the boy holding the cat) helps students improve their communication skills as it encourages them to write longer, more descriptive sentences (as the words are prewritten for them). In addition, the scaffold helps the students produce a new product (1-2 quality sentences).
I loved today! The scaffold for the literature circles is definitely one I will use with my 2nd graders. I liked that the kids will have to analyze and organize the story elements from the core thinking skills. It had lots of opportunity for differentiation.
I think that I would like to use something like the lit. circle preview scaffold for lit. circle book selection. It was helpful to color code the postives or negatives for each book while also reading the overviews of the texts and to have students see those. This would tie into the bigger idea of the Lit. Circle scaffolds, but there would be many modifications that I would need to make.
Jack's Cat meets many of the core thinking skills. For example, it meets the core thinking skill of producing a new product because the student begins with a group of mixed up words and the end product is a paragraph composed of several sentences that commmunciates information. Jack's Cat also meets the core thinking skill of improving communication because the students (kinders) will most likely communicate in more detail about the picture by using words from a word bank than if they had to generate the words independently. Finally, Students also need to analyze the information and organize it into new formats.
Today we looked at the poetry magnet scaffold where kids can create free verse poetry with the supplied words. This scaffold would help a student develop the Core Thinking Skill "producing reports and new products." Free verse poetry can be very overwhelming for some students. This scaffold simplifies the creation and leaves each student with a poem as their product!
The 'Rocks' Excel graph scaffold especially helped students analyze, locate, and harvest information. This was achieved through having the students sort the rocks by their chosen attribute, and then input the data to create their graph. This scaffold also produced a new product(final graph)for the students to immediately view their groups data.
Today we used many scaffolds. Choose one scaffold you used today. How would that scaffold help a student develop one or more of the Core Thinking Skills?
The Three Little pigs scaffold used the Core Thinking Skills of Organizing info. When we had to manipulate the various pages and coordinate them according to our post-its we were organizing the text. When I first wrote this, I had said we analyzed info too-but now I'm not so sure. I look forward to understanding the Core THinking Skills in more depth. Julie
The scaffold we looked at with Lit Circles showing scaffolding for Three Little Pigs required students to make decisions about the order of events in the story and to choose the appropriate main idea to match the picture. It provided good scaffolding for analyzing information for beginning readers and would be more engaging for many learners than similar activities done on paper.
I would tweak The Rocks Assessment for my kiddos by turning it into a review of theme/content learned over a couple of weeks. This activity would help a student develop communication by encouraging them to express what they have learned. It would help to develop organizing by moving pics/items around. It would also benefit students for analyzing as they would have to review what they know and talk about it in a different way. They would be producing a report as well that I could include in our book area so that they could continue to look back on their experience.
One scaffold we saw today was the use of hidden text in a word document. This scaffold helps students develop a couple of Core Thinking Skills. It helps develop Improving Coummunication because it helps the students expand on their ideas when writing a report. Also, it helps with organizing information into new formats because students are taking their knowledge from the text they read and putting it into a written report.
Let’s Rock: This particular scaffold provides students with the opportunity to develop several core thinking skills. Students improve communication by selecting specific attributes and sorting sorts into categories – with the help of teammates. From there, students organize information into a new format by inputting data into an Excel spreadsheet and having that data displayed as a graph. The graphed information enables students to analyze data and again communicate with each other. Finally, the formative assessment, in the form of a PowerPoint provides for evaluation of learning. ~ Dana Verhoff
The lit circle scaffolds would be a great way to help students with analyzing information. While the students worked on narrowing the stories into a few main ideas, they would be thinking about which elements of each story were the most relevant for someoneto understand the overall meaning of the each piece.
The "It Rocks" activity class graph would help students develop the Core Thinking skills of Locating and Harvesting Information because we had to go and collect the rocks. We organized information by sorting the rocks into different categories. We had to analyze each rock to determine which category the rock actually fit into.
Today was great. I learned many new ideas and ways to utilize the information. The rocks scaffold covered the core skills. The excel organizer was one that covered organizing information and new formats.
I am not sure. I think the difference is that scaffolding is multi-level. That children can go to the hidden files for information that will help them complete assignments and work through problems they encounter.They become more independent. With a worksheet, the resources for help are the teacher or peer.
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The Excel graphing functions were AMAZING. Core thinking skills: Analyzing infomation. With the graphs, students can visually compare the collected data-I can't wait to use this for my simple machines unit. It will allow us to determine if we got reasonable answers for our investigations-if most groups are showing that it took (for example) 15 joules of work to lift the hex nuts and one group says it took 35 we can analyze their data to see how they got a different answer.
Today I used the show/hide tool to scaffold a book report. This scaffold would help students to organize information into new formats, because students are sorting information from a book into story elements such as character, setting, etc. It would also allow students to produce a new product, since the book report is an organized summary that the student has created.
The Rocks scaffold would help a student develop skills on organizing information by having them sort into categories. Additionally, they would develop skills analyzing information by having to decide what category each rock would fit into.
I would use the rocks graph scaffold as a math tool to introduce the vocabulary word "attribute". We could use the attribute blocks to make graphs and help us understand what an attribute is so the students can then take that information and apply it to the attribute game. This is a great way to introduce new material as well as provide a stepping stool to analyze that data at a future point during the math game.
To be honest with you, I really liked the poetry magnet scaffold because it leaves endless possibilities for individual students, partner pairs, and small groups of students. An individual student can take the same group of words and rearrange them to make so many different kinds of poems. This hits the Digital Scaffolding List of developing "new, deeper AND creative learning". The word choices that were made allowed both boys and girls to be fully engaged in the poems.
The Kindergarten sentence building scaffold (with the boy holding the cat) helps students improve their communication skills as it encourages them to write longer, more descriptive sentences (as the words are prewritten for them). In addition, the scaffold helps the students produce a new product (1-2 quality sentences).
I loved today! The scaffold for the literature circles is definitely one I will use with my
2nd graders. I liked that the kids will have to analyze and organize the story elements from the core thinking skills. It had lots of opportunity for differentiation.
I think that I would like to use something like the lit. circle preview scaffold for lit. circle book selection. It was helpful to color code the postives or negatives for each book while also reading the overviews of the texts and to have students see those. This would tie into the bigger idea of the Lit. Circle scaffolds, but there would be many modifications that I would need to make.
Jack's Cat meets many of the core thinking skills. For example, it meets the core thinking skill of producing a new product because the student begins with a group of mixed up words and the end product is a paragraph composed of several sentences that commmunciates information. Jack's Cat also meets the core thinking skill of improving communication because the students (kinders) will most likely communicate in more detail about the picture by using words from a word bank than if they had to generate the words independently. Finally, Students also need to analyze the information and organize it into new formats.
Today we looked at the poetry magnet scaffold where kids can create free verse poetry with the supplied words. This scaffold would help a student develop the Core Thinking Skill "producing reports and new products." Free verse poetry can be very overwhelming for some students. This scaffold simplifies the creation and leaves each student with a poem as their product!
The 'Rocks' Excel graph scaffold especially helped students analyze, locate, and harvest information. This was achieved through having the students sort the rocks by their chosen attribute, and then input the data to create their graph. This scaffold also produced a new product(final graph)for the students to immediately view their groups data.
Today we used many scaffolds. Choose one scaffold you used today. How would that scaffold help a student develop one or more of the Core Thinking Skills?
The Three Little pigs scaffold used the Core Thinking Skills of Organizing info. When we had to manipulate the various pages and coordinate them according to our post-its we were organizing the text.
When I first wrote this, I had said we analyzed info too-but now I'm not so sure. I look forward to understanding the Core THinking Skills in more depth.
Julie
The scaffold we looked at with Lit Circles showing scaffolding for Three Little Pigs required students to make decisions about the order of events in the story and to choose the appropriate main idea to match the picture. It provided good scaffolding for analyzing information for beginning readers and would be more engaging for many learners than similar activities done on paper.
I would tweak The Rocks Assessment for my kiddos by turning it into a review of theme/content learned over a couple of weeks. This activity would help a student develop communication by encouraging them to express what they have learned. It would help to develop organizing by moving pics/items around. It would also benefit students for analyzing as they would have to review what they know and talk about it in a different way. They would be producing a report as well that I could include in our book area so that they could continue to look back on their experience.
One scaffold we saw today was the use of hidden text in a word document. This scaffold helps students develop a couple of Core Thinking Skills. It helps develop Improving Coummunication because it helps the students expand on their ideas when writing a report. Also, it helps with organizing information into new formats because students are taking their knowledge from the text they read and putting it into a written report.
Let’s Rock: This particular scaffold provides students with the opportunity to develop several core thinking skills. Students improve communication by selecting specific attributes and sorting sorts into categories – with the help of teammates. From there, students organize information into a new format by inputting data into an Excel spreadsheet and having that data displayed as a graph. The graphed information enables students to analyze data and again communicate with each other. Finally, the formative assessment, in the form of a PowerPoint provides for evaluation of learning. ~ Dana Verhoff
The lit circle scaffolds would be a great way to help students with analyzing information. While the students worked on narrowing the stories into a few main ideas, they would be thinking about which elements of each story were the most relevant for someoneto understand the overall meaning of the each piece.
The "It Rocks" activity class graph would help students develop the Core Thinking skills of Locating and Harvesting Information because we had to go and collect the rocks. We organized information by sorting the rocks into different categories. We had to analyze each rock to determine which category the rock actually fit into.
Today was great. I learned many new ideas and ways to utilize the information. The rocks scaffold covered the core skills. The excel organizer was one that covered organizing information and new formats.
I am not sure. I think the difference is that scaffolding is multi-level. That children can go to the hidden files for information that will help them complete assignments and work through problems they encounter.They become more independent. With a worksheet, the resources for help are the teacher or peer.
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