Egg Drop Gallery Walk

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Egg Drop Gallery Walk

Teaching a scientific discipline bird this yr has me doing to a greater extent than projects than I've in all likelihood always done inward all my previous years every bit a math teacher.  Setting upward projects inward an effective means has been a definite learning curve.  

This week, my students convey been working on designing egg drib devices.  I had students suspension into pairs in addition to brainstorm 3 possible designs given a listing of allowed materials in addition to projection constraints.  They had to pull a moving-picture exhibit of each blueprint in addition to label all of the components.  

The side yesteryear side day, I posted these designs to a greater extent than or less the room.  Each distich of students was given a pad of mucilaginous notes to purpose to comment on each design.  Students had to portion an expression of the blueprint they liked in addition to a proposition for improving each design.  This was my outset fourth dimension always implementing a gallery walk inward my classroom. 

I bought a bulk pack of mucilaginous notes (affiliate link) a few years ago, in addition to they come upward inward super-handy for an activeness similar this! 

This ended upward working actually well.  Students were giving thoughtful suggestions to assistance the other groups better their designs.

Some groups were hesitant to participate because they stance this would Pb to the other groups stealing their ideas.

10 minutes subsequently launching this activity, I had an stance that I *really* wishing I had had 10 minutes BEFORE launching the activity.  Since each grouping had made 3 designs, I wishing I had told the groups to reach the designs from 1 to 3 on their mucilaginous notes inward add-on to giving written feedback.

When students were done rotating, they got their designs off the wall in addition to read the feedback from their peers.

Each distich had to determine which blueprint they would live on edifice from the 3 potential designs they had come upward up with.  Then, students had to finalize their plans for the design.

I asked each educatee distich to write a paragraph describing their in conclusion design.  Then, they had to depict how they had used the feedback from other groups to refine their designs.

I promise I structured this projection inward such a means to brand my students intend critically almost their designs.  I approximate we'll run across how the egg drib goes tomorrow! 

Post-It Note Puzzle

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Post-It Note Puzzle

Today I desire to part 1 of my favorite puzzles that I used amongst my students final year. It involves 1 of my favorite things inward the world, Post It Notes (affiliate link)! I learned virtually this puzzle from Chris Smith's amazing maths newsletter. If you're non signed upwardly to have his newsletters, yous withdraw to create then ASAP. Each 1 is total of fun puzzles, teaching ideas, as well as then much more. 

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The featured puzzle from Volume 373 definitely caught my eye. 

I recreated it amongst actual post-it notes on my dry out erase board. 

My students were straight off drawn in. At first, they assumed the puzzle would live on super easy. After struggling for a few minutes amongst no success, around students started doubting the puzzle's solvability. I loved that when a pupil see he/she had arrived at a solution that it could live on verified past times truly moving the post-it notes.

Some classes did grapple to brand it at a solution. Others gave up. I used this puzzle equally a random fourth dimension filler final year. This year, I'm considering incorporating it into my outset calendar week of schoolhouse activities.