Amazon. Gnowledge. Next Vista for Learning. Illuminations: Welcome to Illuminations. Google Docs for Project Questions = BRILLIANT! I teach 6th graders. I’ve learned that they struggle with following directions (written and verbal) and really good at asking millions of questions (you know, when they don’t listen or feel like reading the directions).
This SHOULDN’T drive me crazy, because I know it is a skill they are still learning. I know that many of them have been spoon fed each and every step, one step at a time, in elementary school. I know they are sometimes just too excited to listen to me, or read the directions. But, they have to now. Because otherwise I NEVER get to everyone’s questions. And they just sit there, with their hand raised, waiting on me to help them, while they do nothing, but wait. Enter Google Documents. Ok, I KNOW – enough already. I created the step by step project instructions, as usual, and made them available to the students. I told the students how to use the question document. In the end, it looked like this… Like this: Like Loading...
NLVM 6 - 8 - Number & Operations Manipulatives.