Miss M's Learning Space

This week I had the privilege of attending Brock University's Arts Matter Conference . The day was divided into 4 workshops and concluded with a performance, and I thought I would share some of the ideas with you here. Dance We began the day by exploring dance in the curriculum. I haven't done a lot of work with dance before so this was completely new to me. We talked about how miming isn't the same as dance and were introduced to Action Pak cards . These cards are a teacher resource designed to level the playing field in the realm of dance and make it accessible to all students - especially those who are uncomfortable because they don't 'know' dance.  Drama In drama we explored Story Drama and it was truly powerful. Basically, you read part of a book (we used Henry's Freedom Box ) and do activities at each pause to help you understand and connect with the book. We did a couple of Tableaus depicting various scenes and the most powerful activi...

This week was our final week of presentations and our last traditional class, and therefore my last reflection post. We went over technology in the classroom in general, but specifically their applications within the data management and probability strand. The first resource was Prodigy , which I discussed in detail in my post from week 8 , so I won't go into detail about it here. In addition, we talked about an activity called story graphing . The idea is students graph some variable over a series of time. Based on the above story, students could get a variety of specific height answers since they're making an estimation, but hopefully their graph would look something along the lines of: This activity allows students to interact with, and clearly understand, what a graph means . I would consider this an appropriate activity for students in grades 5-8 as a part of the data management and probability strand. Another interesting activity is the video below. It doesn...