I looked at Class2Class for math projects and one that appealed to me was the Geometry Gallery of Imaginary Animals Project. This project used geometric shapes and terms in a creative way that I thought might interest the students. I will have to look at this idea in more depth, but it seems very promising.
Design a collaborative project with another classroom.
I think it would be a great collaborative project to team up with our second grade learning buddies.
The content objective would be that TSW design a survey question, conduct the survey and tally the results, and then create a graph to display the results.
A variety of graphs could be utilized, but the ones that the student could cocreate with the second grade learning buddy would include bar graphs, pictographs and pie graphs. Line graphs could be an extension the fourth grader could create for his/her own class.
The implementation would be best early in the school year preferably September. This would be a great project to start off the year with our learning buddies.
The tools that the students use could vary. They have access to Google Apps so that would be a good starting point. They could take notes or create their basic beginning documents here.
After the initial meeting and sharing of ideas, the buddies could set up a shared document(s) where they could share and post ideas and create their project documents throughout the week while in their respective classes until the next face to face meeting.
Finally, the graphs could be developed online and posted to a class blog or wiki or a slideshow could include the process and graphs to kept in their student folders and shared with parents later.
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