Good Day to you all,
Today is Camel Day, December 7, 2011. You all have been doing a remarkable job with the past few learning modules, the Colonization/Exploration blogging, and ALL THE FRUSTRATIONS WITH THE TEXT BOOK TESTS. Well, today all your hard work, headaches, and conferences with me should all pay off. Let me explain...
Remember the "C" in WICR? Yeah, that "C" doesn't just stand for "Cool Christianson"; it also stands for "Collaboration". What better way to collaborate than a tribes activity? The tribes activity is called Bumper Stickers. To launch this activity you are going to need an "ADMISSION TICKET". If you have ever played poker, an admission ticket is kind of like an ante. It's what you pay to get into the game. Your admission ticket for Bumper Stickers will be one or two nuggets from the work you have done on your modules thus far. A nugget for this admission ticket could be one of the following:
-a fact you remember
-new schema you know now that you didn't know before
-a lingering question you have after reading and studying
-a question you remember from an online test that threw you for a loop
-a concept we talked about in class
-an idea you recorded in your Cornell Notes
-a connection to something else you have read
-a blog post you or someone else posted
Write your nugget on a post-it note WITH YOUR NAME and park it in the parking lot that we know so well. This will take us to the next stage in out tribes day activity. Grab your chairs and let's head out to the office commons just like old times.
When we get back from the office commons we should be ready to start creating our bumper stickers. In groups of 4 we are going to compile our nuggets into a bumper sticker we would all put on our cars, but instead of putting them on a car we are going to redecorate our walls and windows in our learning space. Based on some of the things we have read and talked about in our energizer, create a "BUMPER STICKER MESSAGE" that the group can mutually agree upon. Please try to include everyone's nuggets if possible. We need to throw all our collective knowledge up on the walls. I hope you all enjoy!
Yours Truly,
C
P.S. I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
Do your best and forget the rest!
From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy
