5th graders at Glenwood School made walking graphs. Anyone else try it?
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Casey Hodel
10/10/2016 07:58:50 pm
I love that you started the year with this challenge! About how many class periods did it take for kids to collect their data and create the graphs?
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Melody
10/11/2016 05:22:53 pm
We spent one class period (about 1 and 1/4 hours) to do the walking which I explicitly described. We were warned that students would walk differently if we weren't explicit. That took some time. Then they got into groups to do their walking and data collecting. For most groups this took 1/2 hour. Others had difficulty with the data collecting as they did not start where directed. Most groups had time to create a graph of their data. This graph was on 8 x 11 paper. I kept their draft graphs and data so we could create the large graphs the next day. The second day took a good hour. Some groups got right to work, correctly created the graphs (which I explicitly taught first, of course) and had time to decorate. Others, had difficulty drawing the graphs, starting their talking at 4 seconds or something like that. Or they labeled them incorrectly. Some avoided labeling altogether. It was a quite a scene at times. Only one group had to completely begin again, and most could correct minor omits or errors. I'd say- it'll take 2-2 1/2 hours to complete.
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Mike Schulist
11/8/2016 01:39:24 pm
Great to see this done with 5th grade students! We have done many varieties of this in 8th grade at Miller Creek. In some versions, we have the students create an imaginary (or real) walk to school, which must include certain speeds, changes of direction, stops, and backward motion. Students work in groups to create the graph and present them to the class. In another lesson, students were given pre-made graphs that included different types of motion, including acceleration and deceleration. Student groups then had to figure out how to walk these graphs, and present their walk to the class. Other varieties have included taking data and about a toy car race and graphing the motion. Let me know if you are interested in any of these lessons.
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Mary-Clare Neal
11/14/2016 11:23:43 am
As a middle school math teacher I love seeing how students are introduced to ideas that will growing through the years in math. I like Mike's comment about how this grows into students trying to look at a graph and then interpret the walking movements that must have occurred based on the data. What a fun concept-building lesson!
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