Thanks for this excellent unit plan sketch, Christine! You have done a great job of thinking through the rationale, assessment plan, pedagogical approaches, and a variety of activities and problems for students to work on. Your project offers lots of choice and agency to students, while also keeping them focused on the curriculum.
There will be more details to fill in as you actually teach this unit in the context of your/ your SA's Thinking Classroom, but there is not too much I can add to this unit plan assignment! The only suggestions I have at this stage are: (1) for the math/art mandala assignment, make sure to have your own mathematical marking rubric, which will be different from those of the art teacher who devised the Radial Symmetry activity; and (2) for the project, I would give more specific suggestions and create a few teacher-made samples of art formats that could illustrate the sorts of resulting works you are looking for. Otherwise, some students might just default to a typical poster -- which is ok, but less exciting than what you might be hoping for. Thanks again for this great work!
Thanks for this excellent unit plan sketch, Christine! You have done a great job of thinking through the rationale, assessment plan, pedagogical approaches, and a variety of activities and problems for students to work on. Your project offers lots of choice and agency to students, while also keeping them focused on the curriculum.
ReplyDeleteThere will be more details to fill in as you actually teach this unit in the context of your/ your SA's Thinking Classroom, but there is not too much I can add to this unit plan assignment! The only suggestions I have at this stage are: (1) for the math/art mandala assignment, make sure to have your own mathematical marking rubric, which will be different from those of the art teacher who devised the Radial Symmetry activity; and (2) for the project, I would give more specific suggestions and create a few teacher-made samples of art formats that could illustrate the sorts of resulting works you are looking for. Otherwise, some students might just default to a typical poster -- which is ok, but less exciting than what you might be hoping for. Thanks again for this great work!