Division Unit with Technology
I have attached my grade 4 introduction to division unit. With all of my math units I like to focus on conceptual understanding first then move to the applications so my units are fairly slow paced in the beginning then pick up as we move along. I find that my students typically respond well to…
Social Media for Teachers
I have used social media for teaching ideas for a long time. At the beginning of my career I was focused on making everything Pinterest or Instagram perfect, forgetting that those were stills from half a second in the life of a classroom. I thought I needed to have the classroom that looked like the…
Number Sense Activites
I chose to create my Pinterest board focusing on number sense. Number sense routines are something I do daily with my students and that provide a lot of opportunity for students who may not normally engage in mathematical discussions to engage. My goal when choosing number sense activities is to pick Low Threshold High Ceiling…
Hour of Code
Scratch Coding
Overall Scratch is something that I want to use in my classroom after reviewing all of the information. Looking at scratch is really a great introduction to coding the block-based coding language is very visual it’s drag and drop in the scratch interface so that students don’t need to have a lot of background in…
Coding in The Classroom
specific training in coding. My own coding education was limited to a little bit of HTML in grade 9 information technology and first year computer science using C++ which proved to be more of an exercise in frustration then actually learning to code. In speaking with professional software developers and software engineers in my social…
Unplugged Coding
While I enjoyed exploring all of the options and am looking forward to trying the Lego Maze when we return from spring break I chose to write about an activity that I use in my classroom. We regularly use our coding cards to code partners so one student is the “coder” and the other is…
