In this lesson, students are tasked with completing a full body surgery that will be navigated by the Ozobot 600. Students work together to solve order of operations problems and acquire color codes to code the highly intelligent robot through the surgery. After completing Operation Ozobot, students reflect on their experience via Flipgrid by explaining the procedure for solving one of the order of operations problems as well as potential complications or errors that could have been made by a less experienced doctor. An Ozobot is a small robot that can be coded two ways: online with OzoBlockly and screen-free with color codes. My colleague, Sharon Eckert created an awesome activity to review order of operations for 6th grade math students. Students answer math questions in order to reveal color codes for the Ozobot to successfully navigate the track, which in this case is a human body in need of surgery.
When Ms. Baker approached me to brainstorm ideas of how to make this an activity that our virtual students could participate in as well, I immediately called on Kayla Hicks after seeing activities she'd created for her elementary students. In this year's #DitchSummit, one of the things that stood out from the session with Esther Park is assigning students a responsibility within group work by using color coding. This activity presented the perfect opportunity since we normally would split the work amongst a group for the physical Ozobot activity. So, I cannot take all of the credit for this lesson. It is a product of teamwork from a lot of amazing and generous educators! You can grab a copy here!
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When a teacher brings you a 10-station packet that needs to go digital and work for both face-to-face and virtual students, you turn it into an interactive HyperDoc using Google Slides. Well, maybe not all the time, but that's what work in a pinch for this activity reviewing the Texas revolution. I'm slowly, but surely getting better at creating these. With the abundance of resources from Amanda Sandoval, I was able to incorporate a drag-and-drop map labeling activity, Flipgrid, Padlet, and a mini digital breakout. You can grab a copy here!
HyperDocs are defined as "a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction." You can find lots of information, templates, and examples at Hyperdocs.co. While traditionally created using Google Docs, I'm quickly starting to prefer Google Slides. Slides naturally creates chunks for breaking up lessons, there is so much possibility in the gray space around the Slide canvas, and editing the master make it possible to lock things in place. Plus, you still get all of the great collaboration and sharing features of the G Suite applications.
7th Grade Language Arts students were studying author’s tone and mood by reading and listening to “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” by Ray Bradbury with this HyperDoc as their guide!
I chunked content into three steps.
I used the gray space to provide annotation directions and a suggested paragraph structure to assist students in their analysis and application.
In addition, editing the master slide makes it possible for things that I don't want to be moved or edited to be "fixed" in the background of the slide. If you're not familiar with "editing the master," Meredith Akers provides an easy to follow tutorial.
You can grab a copy of this HyperDoc here! What's your experience with HyperDocs? Have you tried using Google Slides instead of Docs? If so, what's your preference? Ms. Roberts, an 8th Grade GT Language Arts teacher, reached out to me about a different way to introduce the dystopian literature genre before her students started their next round of literature circles.
Because I'm such a fan girl of Amanda Sandoval and and her awesome HyperDocs, I immediately knew I wanted to use Google Slides to create a HyperDoc. This lesson includes students brainstorming a perfect society, defining key terms, identifying types of dystopian control, listing traits of dystopian literature, a compare and contrast drag-and-drop activity, research, and reflection. You can grab a copy here! |
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