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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Coaching Edventures: Navigating Obstacles to Discover Classroom Innovation by Jeannie MagieraAbout the BookChart a course to innovation using educational technology. Let's go on an edventure! Want to leverage digital tools to innovate and take risks in your teaching? Looking for ways to troubleshoot common classroom challenges? Jennie Magiera charts a course for you to discover your own version of innovation, using the limitless possibilities of educational technology. Packed with lesson plans, examples and practical solutions, Courageous Edventures will show you:
3-2-1 ReflectionWe all have preconceived notions of how the classroom "should" look, sound, and feel. We may have to put that aside in order to use technology as the vehicle for innovations. The author quotes a definition of innovation from George Couros. "Innovation can come from either 'invention' (something totally new) or 'iteration' (a change of something that already exists), but if it does not meet the idea of new and better, it is not innovative." Jennie encourages us to consistently "audit our practice" by asking if our educational space is both new and improved. 3 Lessons I Learned
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Animated GIFs are a fun way to communicate and share your personality. Sometimes, you can't find the GIF that says exactly what you want, but there's a 4 second chunk of a YouTube video that says it perfectly. Solution: GIFit! Check out the video and get the extension here. I don't know about you, but when I actually take the opportunity to sit down and color, it is one of the most relaxing activities. The thought of spreadsheets probably evokes an opposite emotion for most people. This activity combined Google Sheets, coloring, and identifying text structure to create an engaging activity for 7th grade language arts students. A colleague shared this site with me that provides a few templates for creating color by number activities with Google Sheets as well as a tutorial in how to re-create it yourself. The templates serve as an answer checker and the picture only colors in if you enter the correct answer. My 7th grade ILA team had a paper activity that students shaded different colors based on their answer. They could color the image in incorrectly if they selected the wrong text structure. With a bit of conditional formatting, we were able to make this digital and the picture shaded different colors based on the answer selected. This provided an excellent opportunity for students to identify text structure to complete the picture, then compare their masterpiece with peers to check for accuracy and revise if needed. Face-to-face students were able to physically compare. Virtual students were pushed into Zoom breakout rooms to have the conversation. I had a blast making this one and the students asked when they can color by number again! I'd say it was a hit! I can't wait for the next one and I'm starting to wonder what other cool things I could do with Google Sheets!
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