Workbooks
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Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I'd like to thank Ashley Burko, Antoinette Rienzo, and Katherine Jones for their contributions, time, resources and hard work. I'd also like to thank Principal Dena Chronopoulos for helping me release the teachers and making this possible.
How to use this resource
Version 1.0 of these workbooks and accompanying assessments are now available to our teachers and students for all of cycle 2 and 3 (grades 3 to 6 inclusively). That said, because these resources are so new, there are bound to be some issues that slipped by during the editing process. Please feel free to email me any corrections you feel should be made - be specific so I know where to make any changes. Moreover, many of the engaging elements of a typical lesson may be missing - these will absolutely be added in version 2.0 of this resource.
Download and print the slides (2 per page is recommended) in portrait orientation - these will become the student booklets where they can take notes in the margins. At times, fill-in-the-blank spaces are peppered in the student versions to scaffold younger students who are learning to take notes.
What you will find in version 1.0
Slideshows with notes, definitions and examples
Slides with GIFs to convey hard to see concepts (e.g. when movement or change is important)
Sides with finger voting or coloured card voting (also referred to as hinge-point-questions HPQs)
Notes for the teacher in the presenter notes section - these notes sometimes include links to useful simulations to do with the class
What's still missing in version 1.0
We would like to continue to add engaging whole-class questioning activities like the HPQs
We would like to add and explicitly indicate good opportunities to do mini whiteboard activities with the class
We would like to add demos, labs and hands-on activities as well as explicitly indicate when they should be done
We would like to add more assessments (formative and summative)
Examples
