Assessing Understanding with Project Menus
Assignment
You are being tasked to explain the concept of volume to your peers. Your goal is to chose a project that allows you to create something that you would be proud of, as well as to enter into this year's "Educate U" contest. You may chose any one of the projects below to turn in as your assignment as long as you, illustrate your understanding of our volume unit. As a responsible member of our class, you may chose up to 2 partners to complete this activity with. You and your partners must submit the link to your Google Doc that outlines each person's responsibilities as well as your project timeline. As a group you should also use the rubric menu below to chose the 4 graded areas of your project. Put your chosen categories into a table in your Google doc, so that they can be used to grade you at the end of the project. Your projects are due (completed) in 14 days from today. Please check back into your project outline and rubric to ensure that I have typed in my approval of all of your tasks, and timelines. All of your project rubric, materials, descriptions, web links, etc. need to be added to your Google Doc and labeled with their specific headings. Any portion of the assignment that is missing from the Google Doc, will not be considered for grading.
Short Review and some pointers from me before you begin...
Activity Menu
You may chose any of the activities below to complete this assignment. If there is an activity that you would like to do, that is not on the list, please submit your proposal for that activity (with details) via email.
This menu is a sample from the book Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Middle School Math Book. It can be purchased here.
Rubric Menu
Please make sure you choose 4 criteria to put into your rubric. The criteria you select should address the type of project your group chose. For example, it is not appropriate to choose "organization/neatness" if you chose to create a play and turn it in as a YouTube video.
Assignment Submissions
Assignments must be submitted in your created Google Doc. The second to last page of your assignment should be the "presentation" part of your assignment where you will pull all of your items together and "present" to the class. The last page of your assignment is required to be your Reference page. Make sure you are keeping detailed (and correct) references to all material you use in your projects.
Examples of completed projects....
Here are some links to examples of finished products...
to a POEM
to a Crossword Puzzle
to a Drawing by Leonardo DaVinci
And below you can see an example, of a song created, a video, etc....
to a POEM
to a Crossword Puzzle
to a Drawing by Leonardo DaVinci
And below you can see an example, of a song created, a video, etc....
EDLT Reflection
I built this assignment as another piece to my flipped classroom. It is designed to be a capstone from the volume unit that I have been working on this semester. In this model there is not video from me, because now students are using all of the materials and videos from previous classes to create their own projects. The companion videos were setup as samples of finished projects so that students could get a feel for their own projects. This sort of project brings their flipped classroom to the forefront because at some point during this assignment they are also becoming agents of the flipped classroom, and their projects will teach others. The ability to have whole class periods to touch back to all of their materials from the unit gives them much more freedom to create at their own pace, as well have every type of support they could need in order to create their projects, with only intervention from myself. I used the menus idea from a professional development that I attended about 2 years ago. I have yet been brave enough to use them in the classroom, but it is one of my goals to integrate into my flipped classroom. I love the constructivism that can be used and culminated in a project of this size. The first time it is used, these kinds of projects can be daunting to teachers and students alike, but they are also very worthwhile. When students come together and are asked to create their knew knowledge in an intelligible manner, that is seen by their peers, and embraces their different learning styles.... magic in the classroom can happen.