Friday, February 28, 2014

Working with stations

We want to do so many things in the class: working visual, hearing, kinesthetic… we want to make a project, we want to work with new technologies, we would love our students throwing conclusions, reading articles, writing, analyzing…
However, we don't have time or it seems we don't have enough time. Or we don't have enough calculators, or enough computer… or enough patience.
Have you tried to work with STATIONS?
"What's that?"
Create different spaces in your class, let say around 5 or 6. In every space you are going to create a different activity. Let's see an example.
Let's say we are working with equations:
Station 1: Solving equations using algebra tiles and modeling some equations
Station 2: Solving equations using a calculator
Station 3: Solving real world problems using an equation
Station 4: Explaining in a wiki using their own words how to solve equations.
Station 5: Watching videos on how to solve equation or some inter actives activities.

The students should move around the room discovering the different stations and completing some assignments.

HINT: Duplicate some stations so the students don't have to wait to move from one to the other.

Try it and tell me your experience!!!

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