5th graders at Dixie working on angles. Check out Liz Naughton's (Dixie School) comment below.
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Liz Naughton
10/20/2016 11:46:45 am
I tried this with my students this week. I paired it with a cool video on pro athletes and peripheral vision. It was interesting for the kids to hear that you can work on and fine tune your peripheral vision. (http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/sports/peripheralvision.html) It worked well overall and the kids had fun testing both eyes to see if there was a difference. Things I would do differently: I would model an appropriate drawing/text combination to use for the vision test. The kids drew intricate trees, turtles, you name it, rather than limiting it to simple shapes. It took two 45 minute class periods to get through 3 kids/group doing both eyes. Post activity: We quickly tested for our dominant eye. Fun!
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Mary Acord
11/9/2016 05:21:49 pm
I am so excited to see how clearly laid out this lesson plan is. To add to this, and because I am a fourth grade teacher, I want to spend a little more time on the eye and the parts of the eye and what each were for as an introduction. I found a great resource from Scholastic Books called "The Body Book" which have "Easy to make hands-on models that teach". They say these models are meant for 5-6th grades but I have used them with 4th graders in the past and they work really well. There is a lesson plan and pages that you can run off on regular paper to build each of the models. For the eye model you need to have a piece of clear plastic or plastic wrap for each student.
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Melody Murphy
11/4/2016 02:36:20 pm
Thank you for the video reference. I want to do this lesson too. Do you recommend doing both eyes? Or is doing just one enough information for them. It would be fun to do this before we go to outdoor ed next week. Thanks for the info.
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Liz Naughton
11/8/2016 07:05:20 pm
Hi Melody. Definitely do both eyes if you have time. It leads to a cool discussion about the dominant eye.
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Melody Murphy
11/20/2016 07:18:00 pm
Thank you. I will do both! 11/15/2016 06:32:52 pm
I really appreciate this lesson posted, the video and the ideas for adaptation of the lesson in the comments. I plan to do this lesson with my class as part of a study of animal structures that help them survive in their environment. I think the video will be really helpful to build background knowledge to maximize what my students get from the activity.
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11/16/2016 05:07:05 pm
I forgot about this lesson and I'm glad it's posted. I am with Mary on this one. It's a good lesson to do when studying how the eye works as part of a unit on functions of systems. This lesson also reminded me of the hands on mini project we can do with the aluminum foil, wax paper and small cylinder to represent the eye and how the amount of light it receives can vary the focus of an image. Excited to this lesson when the time comes.
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