Dean Huffstetler's Advisory:
8:05 - 8:10 - Roll / Announcements
8:10 - Direct Instruction: What to expect in Advisory.
- advisory journals
- student-choice activities
8:14 - Fist to Five School Enjoyment Check
8:15 - Students choose Silent Ball for their activity.
- Students make a big circle around the room.
- Nobody talks.
- They begin throwing a wad of paper to each other.
- If you miss or have a bad throw you sit.
- Students are smiling.
- Dean is the ref ruling on bad throws and catchable balls.
- Elliot Hesler was the champion.
8:19 - Silent Ball Round 2
8:24 - Direct Instruction: What to expect next week.
- Learner Profile
- Chromebooks
- Q & A
8:25 - Bell
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Ms. Busshaus' 1st Period Science Class
28 Students
8:28 - Bell Ringer
- Students enter the room and retrieve their binders from the shelf.
- Direct Instruction: The Newline board displays a bell ringer periodic table scavenger hunt.
- "Voices at a zero" "we're seeing if you can sit by your friends"
8:36 - Review of Today's Agenda
- Review the 3 states of matter
- Solid, liquid, gas
- Choral read of today's goal
- Manipulatives vs. Models
- Busshaus displays a class point competition. 1st period is winning with 61 points. Points lead to a quarter celebration.
- Busshaus reviews what "shoulder partners are" and transitions to student-talk-routine with a timer during which students discuss solids, liquids, and gases.
8:45
- Busshaus uses kinesthetic miming techniques to symbolize mass and space as students use the same motion.
- Busshaus demonstrates the difference between a model and a manipulative
8:47
- Busshaus launches students into a 30 second group challenge to arrange their manipulatives at their table.
- Busshaus pays many compliments to the class for doing well. She puts a one-minute timer up for students to predict what the particles of a solid would look like when they are a solid. Class point to every person who predicts correctly!
8:53
- Busshaus uses Newline pen to highlight student contributions to Q&A
- She forms manipulative magnets to show "solid particles tightly packed"
- Students use the Newline board and Busshaus's demonstration to complete a graphic organizer for their binder.
9:02
- Busshaus guides students through a kinesthetic miming technique in which the student's hands represent particle behavior.
9:14
- Students journal in their binder as Busshaus coaches them on how to organize their binders.
