Educational "Shoplifting"

Jennifer teaches in the same school as Lisa.  She liked the lesson that Lisa did with her class on measurement that was shared on the blog a few weeks ago.  Jennifer wanted to make a few modifications to her lesson to make it fit the needs of her class.

For her Minds on she reviewed the learning goals with them, and then co-created the success criteria.  Here is what her anchor chart looked like:

She then had her class get to work on their problem.  To differentiate the lesson a little bit, she offered her Grade 2s the opportunity to choose what problem they wanted to do.  The Grade 3 students had to choose the problem that involved standard units of measure as this is the expectation for the grade.

To consolidate, Jennifer wanted to have her students really take a look at what they are writing in their answer.  She grouped their work into groups with similar answers and then talked about what was positive in each group, and what the students could work on.  She took the feedback from the success criteria that had been co-created with the class.

The students were then given the opportunity to go back and 'edit" their work to add what they thought that they needed to in order to make their answer a stronger answer.  Here are some individual student samples.  You can see what the original work was, and see what the new comments are because of the two different colours.

This student elaborated more on "drawing a line" (original answer: blue, improvement: red)

This student used more math vocabulary in their improvement (e.g., half).

The last picture is the whole class' work.  You can zoom in and see all the different colours for "editing."  A great lesson, and a great learning experience for these students.