Below you will find a newly minted video to introduce a project that had tremendous effects on my 1st graders. You are invited to join. It is called Exploring Space and Time and here on this blog from time to time I've talked to what we have been doing.
It is not a tremendously time involved commitment for a class but it does require my class every Tuesday at 11AM to mark a shadow cast by the sun, additionally once a week they are engaged in some connected activity. It might be in working on directions with compasses, making circles, work on a grid showing data points, construction of a grid that is directional around the central pole used to cast the shadow, it might be figuring out coordinates, noticing shadows in chalk art pieces. It might be playing a directional game on the grid to internalize coordinate systems. It has many forms. The film does a better job of giving a peek.
Suggests even more.
Briefly in Exploring Space and Time students track the shadow cast from the sun to learn about the earth's rotation, data collection, inquiry, seasons, and a host of math and science standards mapped at the MESA site. I'll be re-mapping these over the summer to provide myself with greater understandings of how the project fit the 1st grade requirements.
Please just email at
smpuglisi@gmail.com
so that we can get you, your class, your school or community involved.
It's exciting. In my next EST post I'll show you a sample weekly interaction.
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