Monday, November 11, 2019

5th Grade - The vocabulary word was Tantamount which means equivalent to, virtually the same. Ruth Wakefield, today's future thinker, invented the chocolate chip cookie by mistake when she ran out of baking chocolate. For the warm up activity, students were given words and phrases associated with aviation and were to create a crossword puzzle. The affective lesson focused on communication, tolerance and diversity, and getting to know each other. Students quickly filled out an idea brainstorming sheet for their Exploravision projects. Finally, students read newspaper clipping of Amelia Earhart's final trip. From those articles, students were to plot her progress until she disappeared.