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Socratic STEAM SeMINARS

10/3/2017

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What to do with extra time in a day so you don't waste learning opportunities? Here is a flex structure I created for a class class that will meet 3 days a week for 4 weeks, but this can be adapted as a daily class, or other.  Thanks to Mr Ciambrone and the 7th grade teachers for the daily theme title inspiration.

I'm going to begin with some class-building discussions the first Tues and Weds and move into external content the first Thursday. 

 Socratic STEAM

Talk about it Tuesday - Students talk about the previous Thusrday's wonder in a circle facing one another and following socratic seminar rules for discussion.


Write about it Wednesday - Students write plans of action, invention blueprints,  private journal entries, advocacy letters,  or social media posts about their final musings on what they saw and discussed. They will research if needed and  have a share out. 


Think about it Thursday- Students view together a video on and then read about a compelling topic in science or social science, Tech, Engineering, Arts or Mathematics (like TEDed, Nature video, video about how to make optical illusions with math, etc) then think about it or do more research for the rest of class or on their own if desired. 

​Resource Links:


http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/first-days-of-school-how-i-create-climate
http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/discussion-catalyst
https://www.paideia.org/socratic-seminar-rules/
http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/host-an-academic-conversation

Nothing formal. I have a "no labels" rule and a serious talk about the reductive power of labels on Day 1. Would ♥️ more

— Kristin S Doucette (@KSD502) August 14, 2017
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Readworks.Org

5/6/2016

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PictureThis is a screenshot of all the content areas covered in the readings.

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This is a screenshot of all the skills you can find readings for
ReadWorks is a free site that lets  you choose and use readings for your students that relate to your subject and at the lexile you choose. Even better, you can sort by skill! Perfect for thinking skills, close reading, content-based reading, and more.

To use Readworks
  1. go to Readworks.org
  2. Select the blue tab called "reading passages"
  3. search for the reading you want - sort by grade, lexile, topic, text type or strategy.
  4. To save it, email it, add it to edmodo, etc just sign in or sign up using your school email and create a password- you will automatically be signed in.

So many choices. For example, here are 7th grade life sciences readings

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if you are a sixth grade teacher you can use any of the other blue tabs as well since they are K6, but only the Reading Passages tab is grade K-12
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Introduction to ReadWorks Curriculum from ReadWorks on Vimeo.

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Perplexors: Higher Order Thinking prep +Reading and math Skills

5/6/2016

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Perplexors are word puzzles that require close reading and or math skills plus deductive reasoning to solve the problems.

​ Introduce Perplexors the first weeks of school next year as group activities, then you can incorporate them into your lesson plans throughout the year any time you need:

 An Additional Center Activity in your mix
AN EMerGency sub Assignment
A dispersal Assigment
A team-building Activity to practicE in Groups
Enrichment Assignment for Compacted students
An Extra Assigment for Odd Schedule days, etc:

 Since my last lesson idea post was very standardized EOG prep, I thought this was a good time to mention two math and reading skills resources you can incorporate into class that will help your student not just with standardized testing skills but also with logic and higher order thinking skills that will help them well past the time their standardized test taking days are over.

Ms. Lyttle and Ms. Malone saw Perplexors in use during their PL visit to Park Road Montessori's sixth grade.

Perplexors offer free samples and here is the Link To Purchase  if you like the samples. Specific types of perplexors such as Grid perplexors, Venn Diagaram perplexors and more books are available on Amazon and elsewhere.
Perplexor Tutorials are available on Youtube:
Basic level Math Perplexor Sample:
bakers_get_the_bues_perplexor.pdf
File Size: 347 kb
File Type: pdf
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Expert Level Math Perplexor Sample:
expert_level_math_perplexor.pdf
File Size: 27 kb
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Basic level Perplexor sample
basic_level_perplexor_dog_race.pdf
File Size: 28 kb
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Level D Perplexor Sample 
report_card_fun_perplexor_level_d.pdf
File Size: 30 kb
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Here's an embedded perplexor for you to see:
starving_artists_perplexor.pdf
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