Student using SMARTboard while learning a math concept.
Bay Point Middle school students and teachers are doing some amazing things in their classes.
This is a chance to share with the world what we falcons do around here. Check back often for more!
Mr. Howat’s and Ms. Shorter’s geography classes are creating podcasts of conversations between an American student and a student from countries in Africa. The classes have worked in teams to research several different aspects of the culture of their chosen country, then write scripts and are recording their conversations…Stay tuned to hear some here soon!
They will then listen to classmate’s conversations on the ipods and have a gallery walk, showcasing all they have learned about their country.
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Mrs. Sehner’s students work on marking example FCAT essays to better understand how to become better authors. They are marking for word choice, transitions, elaboration, and vivid examples.
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Challenge-Based Learning is the topic of this camp that Ms. Buehler and Mrs. Giuffre took three of our students to in November and December. They are working to learn how to help the teacher and be project managers and facilitators for their class in working through the projects. Each team of “campers” received a Macbook [...]
Mangahigh.com is a math game-based learning website, free to schools! Some of our math teachers have started using it for review and practice. Teachers sign up their class and can assign games to students based on their standards for class. The site has lessons to teach the concepts if the students need remediation.
The students are really engaged and showing progress. This can be accessed from home as well, so students – ask your math teacher about MangaHigh!
Several of our teachers use a great resource, CNN Student News, for high-interest news stories relevant to students. CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program for middle and high school students produced by the journalists and educators at CNN.
Some teachers show it to the whole class and have a discussion, others have the students watch them on ipods along with the study resources on the site. It has good background information on current events and relates back to their daily life.
This year at BPMS, a binder is required of all students. We are an AVID(Advancement Via Individual Determination) school and we think binders are a great organizational strategy for all of our students. The students have a section for each class, and each class assessed it each grading period.
Mrs. Hughes 8th grade class decided that some students might need some direction in setting up their binders. They wrote the script, acted and filmed on the iPads the following video:
Students who complete their assignments like to play McGraw-Hill’s Baseball app and review their multiplication facts.
Number Line app gives instant feedback in comparing and ordering fractions, decimals and percents by lining them up on a number line.
Ms. Buehler’s class worked with the ipads on the following project using the ShowMe app for ipads. We made our our mini-Khan academy videos! See below for details on the lesson.
Review Lesson
Student writing her script for explaining a problem.
Students solved two review questions, showing all of their work. The students then chose one of the problems that they felt the most comfortable with. With the ShowMe app. on the iPad, they recorded short videos explaining and showing how they solved the problem. They uploaded the videos to the teacher’s ShowMe account so that she was able to easily watch all of the videos to ensure the students understood the concept and/or procedure.
Students Teaching Students
Each student chose a team and a concept from Chapter 2 in the 7th grade Big Ideas textbook that they would research and then teach to the rest of the class. The students used three class periods to research their concept and design a lesson to teach. Once the students designed their lesson, they used the ShowMe app on the iPads to create a video explaining their concept. These videos include vocabulary terms, key ideas, procedures and example problems.
The students also had to create an activity for the class to do while they presented, like a handout, notes, activity, etc. Some students utilized the SMARTboard and had students coming up to the board. Others had created a notes handout with vocabulary and examples.
Students each taking turns in recording their teaching video.
MA.7.A.5.1 Express rational numbers as terminating or repeating decimals.
MA.7.A.3.2 Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers, fractions, and terminating decimals, and perform exponential operations with rational bases and whole number exponents including solving problems in everyday contexts.
