Integrated Group: P.E.T.S Primary education thinking skills
P.E.T.S. is an enrichment program that provides students the opportunity to develop higher order thinking skills. The students use hands-on activities to develop the skills of convergent, divergent, and evaluative thinking.
THis Week's Lesson: inventor thinking
Objective: Students will learn that there is many correct answers, the importance of seeing things creatively and learn how to piggyback ideas from others.
Vocabulary: inventor
Activity: Students will be introduced to what a inventor is plus list famous inventors and what they invented.
Students will be introduced to "Isabel the Inventor" and how she thinks.
Students will create Brainfocals that will help them see things in different ways. Then using the Brainfocals, students will create different objects with Bubble Bonanza.
AZCCR
Standards:
Mathematics
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Evaluative Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Visual/Spatial Reason with shapes and their attributes.
ELA
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Vocabulary: inventor
Activity: Students will be introduced to what a inventor is plus list famous inventors and what they invented.
Students will be introduced to "Isabel the Inventor" and how she thinks.
Students will create Brainfocals that will help them see things in different ways. Then using the Brainfocals, students will create different objects with Bubble Bonanza.
AZCCR
Standards:
Mathematics
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Evaluative Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Visual/Spatial Reason with shapes and their attributes.
ELA
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
VERBAL GROUP: Junior great books
This week's lesson: imagination
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QUANTITATIVE/Spatial GROUP: TANGRAMATH
COMING SOON!
This week's Lesson: DISCOVERING TANGRAMS
Objective: Students will understand a variety of ways in which tangram shapes can be used in math.
Vocabulary: Tangram, Triangle, Square, parallelogram, flip
Activity: Students will use the seven pieces of the tangram puzzle to learn how to create different shapes. They will also learn about the area of each shape and which shapes have the same area.
AZCCR Standards:
K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientation or overall size (e.g., circle, triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder, sphere).
K.G.B.6 Use simple shapes to form composite shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”
1.G.A.1 Distinguish between defining attributes (triangles are closed and 3 sided) versus non-defining attributes (color, orientation, overall size) for two-dimensional shapes; build and draw shapes that possess defining attributes.
Vocabulary: Tangram, Triangle, Square, parallelogram, flip
Activity: Students will use the seven pieces of the tangram puzzle to learn how to create different shapes. They will also learn about the area of each shape and which shapes have the same area.
AZCCR Standards:
K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientation or overall size (e.g., circle, triangle, square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, hexagon, cube, cone, cylinder, sphere).
K.G.B.6 Use simple shapes to form composite shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”
1.G.A.1 Distinguish between defining attributes (triangles are closed and 3 sided) versus non-defining attributes (color, orientation, overall size) for two-dimensional shapes; build and draw shapes that possess defining attributes.