In our Bloom/Gardener grid, we came up with wonderful learning experiences to give our students.  We have gone beyond the paper and pencil worksheets to exploring the world around us, collaborating with peers and using our creative mind. 

Now…. What if I told you had to grade each and every student on each and every idea and project in the grid?
For example.. How would you grade the following assignments? What is the difference between an assignment grade of a B or a C for each of these? 

1.                  Create a photo collage about their assigned community helper.

2.                  Make a vodcast showing pictures of each type of element. Pictures must contain the characteristic you talked about before.

3.                  Hypothesize what kind of food you would want to eat if you were a butterfly.

4.                  Make up a chant to describe animals that fly.

5.                  Find a series of parabolas in nature

6.                  Create a human fact and opinion chain about farm animals.

7.                  Tell which element you are most interested in and why.

 

Read this article

http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubrics.html

Create a rubric for one of the assignments in your Bloom/Gardner Grid.  It may a rubric for the lesson plan you just completed.  It may be a rubric for any other assignment in your Grid.  You may use any rubric generator to create you grid although I suggest Rubistar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/  Your rubric is due Saturday.
Please post it on your website/blog as well as emailing it to me.  Please label it "RubricYour NameSpringII".

Here is a rubric tutorial you may watch if you feel you need more information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV3Fjis0k8U

I will be using Aunt Olive’s rubric on rubrics to grade your assignment. http://www.carla.umn.edu/assessment/VAC/Evaluation/ref_2.html

We are nearing the end of class.  Our last assignment is a Unit Plan.   Below is the template and a sample.  Your capstone is MANY, MANY, MANY things but it is usually based around a curricular unit.  You have already brainstormed over 35 ideas (Bloom/Gardner Grid) and completed a lesson plan as well as this week's assessment rubric on one curricular area.  Let's use all of this information to create the Unit plan.  Hopefully, you have or will have additional projects to this unit plan from your other classes.  Feel free to include these other projects in your unit plan.  This unit plan will be an incredible jump start to your CAPSTONE.

Unit Plan due THURSDAY, JULY 29th.

NOTE: I will add the template and sample by Monday evening :) Sorry I am a

The Bloom/Gardner Grid is complete!!!   I hope you enjoyed trying to be creative to fill in those squares.  I am painfully aware that many of those great ideas can not be used in our program improvement schools on a grand scale but think small to add moments into your day that spark learning for those students with a variety intelligences. As each person posts their grid to their website/blog, you will be notified on your google reader.  Please look at a few of the other student's grids.  Feel free to leave positive comments.

First Task
Now...  we will test how well we understand and can identfy multiple intelligences in people (mostly our studnets).  Our website has a new blog, entitled Movie Night.  Please watch each video and use the document below (Multiple Intelligences in Life ..or movies) to record your thoughts and ideas.  If you would like to get together as a group either  on your own or at APU Wed evening to watch the movies, you can work together to complete only one worksheet per group.  I will be at APU Wed evening to watch with anyone who prefers a group setting (we will discuss the movies in lieu of completing the worksheet).

Second Task
Ready for a field trip? Well, actually it's field trips! Your mission is to FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE CHOOSING TO IGNORE in terms of how people use technology to learn, and what is really out there being used.

You must visit the following three locations (yup, all three).

• A toy store (Kaybee toys, Toys-R-Us, etc)
• A technology store (Best Buy, Circuit City, the Mac Store, etc)
• A place where people go to play games (Dave & Busters', GameWorks, etc)

At each location, you most do the following:

• Spend 20 minutes watching kids, teens, and adults at the store. What are they playing with? How are they using the equipment/toys? What are they learning? Write down your observations in a journal.
• Spend 20 minutes playing with the toys/equipment yourself. You MUST spend 20 minutes - no cheating. Write down observations about what you learned/discovered in a journal.
• Think about it: write down how these toys/pieces of equipment could be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning.

Post your reflections in the discussion area no later than Saturday this week. Have fun! Take your family with you. 


Our next assignment is to choose one of those ideas on our grid and create a lesson plan.  It is your choice if you choose an idea that is most likely to be used and successful in your classroom today, OR you may choose the idea that you wished you could do!!  Imagine laptops for everyone and unlimited time restraints.  Sometimes these crazy (if I could do anything ideas) lead to practical possibilities once thought completely through.  If you have a classroom, you may be more likely to choose practical. If you do not have a classroom, you may wish to dream big.
Use the one idea from the grid that you choose and complete a lesson plan using the template provided. At least 2 multiple intelligences should be covered as well as a technology component (possibly an idea from your field trip)
The template provided has a blank for "STANDARDS".  I would like both the California State Standards and the National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for Students. (NETS.S).  The NETS.S can be read online. Please read the NETS.S and add the appropriate ones to match your lesson plan.  (PLEASE NOTE: the sample included may not have NETS.S.  Your lesson plan needs NETS.S)

  Google Reader. 


You have already set up a Google Reader and added everyone's blogs to it.  I STRONGLY suggest either setting up the google reader as your home page. Directions here.  OR you could create an iGoogle page.  iGoogle will allow you to have your google reader as well as other apps such a time, facebook, joke of the day, calendar reminders and weather all on the same page which can be set as your homepage. Directions here.



Your first assignment is to watch and comment on everyone's vodcast. Please comment directly on their blog.  For our next assignment, you will need to understand all of the multiple intelligences as well as Bloom's taxonomy.  Each vodcast should provide you with the basic understanding needed for the assignment.

 

Our special guest to share spatial intelligence is Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin gives a fanastic speech. She is a very successful woman who has autism.  http://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds.html   Her speech is not only important to hear for your children with autism but she is an amazing visual learner. Her speech helps us understand how the mind of a visual thinker works. (I strongly recommend the movie out on DVD Aug 17th.) I believe EVERY mother and EVERY teacher should see this movie!!

 

Bloom’s Taxonomy
Read the article on Bloom’s Taxonomy.  This is a brief article.  Most students have a basic understanding of Bloom’s from undergraduate work. If you need a more in depth look into Bloom’s, please let me know and I will send you more information. Leave a comment on the article on the discussion board.  Continue the discussion on two other’s comments. 

 

Upcoming Assignments
Due July 10– Bloom/Gardner Grid
Template and Sample can be found on last week's blog.  Choose a unit of study that is broad enough to think of many activities to teach. If you have already decided on a capstone, use that topic. Fill in the squares using an activity that meets both the multiple intelligence and the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy in which it intersects. A sample has been provided n last week's blog.  I expect 90% or more of the grid to be completed.  It should be saved as "Grid Your Name Summer”. You will post it on your blog and email it to me by July 10th (midnight).

Due July 17th - Multiple Intelligence Lesson Plan.
Template and Sample to follow.  Choosing just one idea (one square) from your Bloom/Gardner Grid, you will create a lesson plan.  If the topic of your grid is related to your upcoming capstone, then this lesson will be one of many in your capstone.  You may use the lesson format from the template and the sample or you may choose any lesson plan format you wish as long as it includes all the components of the template and sample.

 

Please note; I will be traveling some this week.  Please feel free to call or text message me as I may not always be near a computer.

Is your google reader set up to notify you of the upcoming videos on everyone's blogs?