Beach Ball Challenge Team Building Activity
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What are Work Stations?
What would a math block look like?
Example 1:
Example 2
Why Work Stations?
· Because it’s not indoor recess or playtime it’s a time for work
· Emphasis on hands on learning and problem solving that highly engages students
· Provides a variety of learning tasks
· ALL work stations are aligned to pacing and the Eight Mathematical Practices
Important ideas to consider:
The key here is that stations are useful as a differentiation tool. You should use assessment data to break students into groups. Not all students will visit all stations and time at the teacher station will differ based on the data.
What would a math block look like?
Example 1:
- Whole-class warm-up
- Review station assignments made based on pre-assessment
- Pull a group to the teacher's station for a structured focus lesson.
- Other students work at their stations. You move around to monitor their progress when students at the teacher's station are working in pairs or independently.
- Whole-class closure activity.
Example 2
- Whole-class warm-up
- On-grade-level focus lesson for most of the class
- Above-grade-level students work on an anchor
- After focus lesson, students refine their understanding at a specific station or through an anchor activity
- Above-grade-level students receive their focus lesson at the teacher's station.
- Whole-class closure activity.
Why Work Stations?
· Because it’s not indoor recess or playtime it’s a time for work
· Emphasis on hands on learning and problem solving that highly engages students
· Provides a variety of learning tasks
· ALL work stations are aligned to pacing and the Eight Mathematical Practices
Important ideas to consider:
- how incredibly important it is to model the concept to the class
- you must give explicit instructions in the stations where students work independently
- using assessment data to divide students
- give students their station assignments during warmup
- students need a way to check their work in the stations
- you need an assessment tool or record of students’ work in the stations
The key here is that stations are useful as a differentiation tool. You should use assessment data to break students into groups. Not all students will visit all stations and time at the teacher station will differ based on the data.