10-11+Bachar

= Unit 1: =

= Description of project: = Eighth grade students will be completing a RAFT (role, audience, format, and topic) for a concept in math of their choice. They will be taking on a role of a popular holiday character. Once they know the role they will be playing, they will pick an audience they will be writing to. All students will be creating a holiday song for their format. The song has to be in the same tone of a popular holiday song. This is a cross-curricular project so the topic they write their song on should be an 8th grade concept taught from our math textbook. The students will create a wikispace to display their song and key vocabulary. In addition to creating a wiki that will display their song and key vocabulary each student must post their RAFT plan to the discussion board and use their class Wallwisher to post at least two comments or questions. Finally they will create a Voki that fits to their character and adds additional information on their topic. Finally, the students will write a reflection on the project detailing what they did and what the pros and cons were of the project.

Please use the link to view student examples, the unit plan, an other additional information.

http://sbsmas.wikispaces.com/10-11+MAS+Kristi+Bachar

= Unit 2: = = Description of project: = = =
 * Eighth grade students used two different wikispaces I created to help analyze a cumulative 8th grade test they took recently. They used my first wikispace as an online resource to go back and review the topics they missed or didn’t understand. Considering that the test was on 7 chapters I knew I wouldn’t be able to go back and re-teach everything from the whole year in just one quarter. I identified areas that 40% or more of the students got wrong and I am going to conduct mini lessons on these areas. For the rest of the problems the students needed to use my online resource that included key information, examples, vocabulary, and instructional videos to help them understand the missed material. Additional assignments included a self reflection, a note taking sheet, and an online notes (the second wikispace). I included the link to the first wikispaces where the directions are listed for the students along with the links to the second wikispace. **

Please use the link below to view student examples, the unit plan, and other additional information.

http://sbsmas.wikispaces.com/10-11+MAS+Kristi+Bachar

**Unit 3:**

We spent about 12 weeks working on the forgiveness program which was a curriculum already created for us to use. This wikispace was designed to help students understand the curriculum and to share ideas with one another. Not all of the lessons were on this wikispace. I found the lessons in the curriculum started to become boring to the students because it involved so much discussion questions. So to break thinks up from writing and sharing out loud, I created this wikispace as another avenue of sharing. I also posted a lot of the websites we viewed and videos on here so students could easily go back and view it if they missed something or were absent. Please understand that this wikispace was in addition to the curriculum and does not include everything covered in the 12 week course. http://forgivenessedu.wikispaces.com/