So, I delivered the lesson that I’m offering as a download on my freebies page and the end results were mixed.
2 of the 3 classes that I delivered it to today were able to conduct the experimental piece of the task with relative ease. I let them use the graphing calculators to assist with the calculation.
A few (2 or 3) students were able to dig into the questions after the experiment.
I plan to go back and adjust some of the directions…perhaps adding a video component to the directions so I don’t have to waste time delivering them again and again.
Also, my students who are poor readers struggled to understand what it was that I wanted them to do once they got to the questioning.
My students who never do anything…still didn’t do anything. And their “do nothing” approach flies in the face of all of the research that claims that manipulatives will make math more engaging and accessible to struggling students….I never really bought into that anyway. If you’re willing to work you’re willing to do so if the lesson is s lecture or a project.
Overall, I think it went well…but my lesson was tainted but not one, not two, but three back to observations of my classroom. One of the many joys of working in a NI school is that I get observed ALL THE TIME…I mean…ALL THE TIME…to the point where it is distracting to me and disruptive to my students.
Ahhh well…back to work.
Oh yeah, I’ll post pics and video once I’ve completely delivered the lesson in its entirety.
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