M4 Smart Exchange Ideas

Name of Activity: Fractions
Age Level: Grades 2 and 3
Subject Recommendation: Math
Description of how you plan to implement with students: Initially, I would use this activity as an introduction to fractions on the whiteboard, as a whole group activity. It explains the difference between numerators and denominators. This activity also relates fractions as parts of a whole and parts of a set. Finally, it has a check your understanding in the middle,matching the picture to the number and one where you match the number to the words. At the end, it offers students two different games they can play, where if they match the correct picture to the number, they move up a level. This part of the activity would be used as a station for children at the computers, while I worked with another group using fraction pies. Then the groups would exchange places.


Name of Activity: How to Read Maps
Age Level: Grades1,2,3
Subject Recommendation: Geography, Social Studies
Description of how you plan to implement with students: I would use this activity as an introduction to identifying maps, atlases, and globes, and reading maps on the whiteboard, as a whole group activity for my third grade social studies classes. It has great activities that allow students to take turns coming up and trying on the whiteboard. It also has questions geared for discussing with the group, or as partners, or tables. There are two parts to this activity, I couldn't get to work- locked out. One was the Category Sort. Students are to put the labels under the correct category- map, atlas, globe. That is not enough to deter me from this section. Writing the labels on tag-board with a magnet placed behind each would allow for the activity to still be completed. The other activity that wouldn't work was X Marks the Spot. I think we'd be okay to skip this. One activity, Connect-the-Dots, has the students using the pen that goes with the whiteboard. Even though I would use this as a whole group lesson, I can see students engaged and excited.


Name of Activity:Plane Shapes/ Geometry

Age Level: Grades 1-3
Subject Recommendation: Mathematics
Description of how you plan to implement with students: Initially, I would use this activity as an introduction to geometry on the whiteboard, as a whole group activity.It begins simple with identifying basic shapes. Then it has a matching game where you match the names to the shapes. For some reason, the shapes wouldn't show up. However, I'd just put the figures on tag-board with a magnet on the back, place it on the whiteboard and have student match the names. Next it has a matching game where you put the circles where the vertices are and the sticks go where the sides are. They also have a little quiz, called Guess the Mystery Shape. They also have some sorting games about angles. There is so much in this presentation, it would probably take the entire math period. So as to completely engage all students, I would pass out the dry-erase boards and markers. I would have them draw some of these shapes, angles, etc., as we went over them on the whiteboard. This would give students a good beginning in geometry.