Grams and Kilograms
This is my lesson that I did for TIE blog 2. I taught the students by using voicethread for this lesson. My lesson was over grams and kilograms. I mainly taught the students about grams and kilograms and had them weigh objects to see if they were heavier or lighter than the weight of a gram and a kilogram. The voicethread did seem to work for me in my lesson. The only thing that was difficult was that I did not have enough computers or time for all of the students to have a response. So what I did was put students into groups of five and have one student be the reporter and come up to the computer and report what they observed as they weighed their objects. The only thing that I would do different if I taught another lesson using voicethread again; is to give the students days to work on a project instead of one hour.
1.How can you change this activity to make it suitable for older students ?
2.How can you use this lesson in other subject areas besides math and science?
Christinas voicethread was very cool. It was over the dustbowl and had great pictures!
Margos voicethread was nice also. I love learning about plants. Her blog was very neat.
Roszellas blog looked so nice. I thought that she showed great organizational skills.
1. To make this lesson more suitable for older students you can use pounds and ounces instead of the kilograms and grams.
ReplyDelete2. This lesson can be used in helping students with their language skills or writing.
Perhaps you could use partial weights for older students such as 1.76 kilograms. The students can also convert from one measurement to another. You might be able to tie it to Social Studies by finding out how much something like the Liberty Bell weighed?
ReplyDeleteYou might be able to expand this lesson and work on conversions from grams to kilograms and many others.
ReplyDeleteHow can you change this activity to make it suitable for older students ? It would be awesome for older students to continue this assignment at home. Students could post pictures and comment on objects that they find. You could give them an at home scavenger hunt and have them find objects that are less than, about, and more than a gram or kilogram.
ReplyDeleteHow can you use this lesson in other subject areas besides math and science? Language Arts can always be used. The students can write a script before they record their comments.
All components completed. It would have been more participatory and easier for you to design if you would have had only a couple of slides and let the students reply with a web cam showing what is less than or more than a gram on the appropriate slide.
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