Group6

__**Group #6**__:


 * Initial Thought Discussion:**
 * Based on the materials provided to you prior to the workshop (and posted on the Resources page), record your initial thoughts about what makes a good 21st century lesson for CFF below:


 * Student Engagement
 * Teachers who are willing to take risks
 * Teachers who are willing to take ownership and make it part of what they do.
 * Student centered activities
 * Students who know more (technologically) than the teacher. This can be empowering and threatening.
 * Project-based, problem based, inquiry based learning activities
 * Students creating wikis and writing, creating content, an e-portfolio
 * Focus on the content, not the technology

Smog-City Lesson - Louise Maine, Punxsutawney HS
 * Revised Thinking:**
 * Now revise your thinking based upon what you have seen:
 * Simulation - variables for weather, population and emissions to identify how they affect air quality
 * Engaging for students and addresses the content
 * Use of Wordle

Math lesson - Jeannette Fabbri
 * Volume of a cylinder lesson - use of manipulatives. Rice filling paper tubes, compare large to small cylinders
 * Problem-solving - relationship between height and radius.
 * With technology, use NLVM site for "How High" simulation
 * Making predictions: 3x4x4 rectangular prism pour into a 2x3x? rectangular prism. Make a prediction about the third dimension and then try it out.
 * Do the same for cylinders


 * Designing an efficient product package activity
 * Building a box - Three Dimensional Box applet. Let them play with it instead of telling them what to do.
 * Fold the corners of the box; animation folds the corners up and tells you the volume and surface area. Maximize volume, minimize surface area. Record results in a spreadsheet and find optimal dimensions.
 * We don't want the students to have to crunch the numbers; we want to get to the concepts. Same for probability simulations.


 * Bars of soap. Stack 12 bars of soap and build a box for them that minimizes surface area.
 * Students taking Calculus - max/min problem for enclosing an area with a fence, building a box for curlers.


 * Backyard structures project - student competition
 * Build a treehouse, backyard shed. In addition to surface area and volume, also have to consider other construction calculations. Calculus students going to vo-tech students for help with carpentry. Link to home supplies web sites for costs.
 * Use Google Sketchup to draw the shed from various perspectives. Make a Jing video of the animation to put on the wiki.
 * Rubric under development

Project based learning, Social Studies - Dayna Laur EQ: How does the political system of today reflect the ideological and philosophical traditions inspired by the Framers of the Constitution?
 * Constitution Underpinnings
 * Survey
 * Create iMovie documentary on the founding of the United States and the creation of the Constitution
 * 21st Century skills - information literacy, inventive thinking, communication, productivity
 * Use Scrumy.com for project management within the group
 * NETS-T and NETS-S
 * Teacher as a facilitator
 * Digital citizenship - copyright-free pictures, requesting permission.
 * Use Google Spreadsheets to do survey analysis

Can gain a better understanding of information through project-based learning, not memorization of facts without context.