Wednesday, October 19, 2011

4th Grade - This week's word was Cartographer. A Cartographer is someone who makes maps or charts. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American female doctor, was today's pilgrim. The warm-up activity was a Quotation Quizzler. Today's affective lesson finished off the family traits lesson. Students then completed an exercise in creativity and listening to directions so they could get a feel for listening to directions without seeing the finished product as well as developing directions. A similar activity followed with the See-Run-Do poster. We had a discussion about what we learned from both activities. Students then designed the robot the class would be building and writing directions for to send to the other schools.