Monday, April 10, 2017
Week 6 - Cross Content
In observing in the middle school this week (7th grade Pre-Algebra) I Social Studies teacher cam over and asked for myself and/or cooperating teacher to review a worksheet that was embedded into his lesson plan to ensure the answers were correct on his key, but also how we got to the answer, so he could better understand if the students had an incorrect answers, or they were stuck with how to process the information in getting the correct answer. The content was on World War 1 and how soldiers had to dig trenches on the battlefield. It gave some small information like it took one minute for four shovels, and (I think it was) those four shovels were equal to one cubic foot of dirt. From there were the questions like: "How many soldiers would it take...", "If one solider dug...", etc. I felt it was fairly extensive in Math for a social studies lesson, but I also found it great for the heavy cross content within the lesson. I feel that is my week area to blend multiple contents in one lesson. I have some project based ideas that will bring ELA in, but that's about it right now.
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I love the cross content in that lesson! I have a BA in history and do not do so great in math... but if I was thinking about soldiers digging their trenches in France I could visualize the math portion of the lesson a little better!
ReplyDeleteI know, right?!? I though it was a great way to bring math in, but also one of the struggles of trench warfare as well.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you are looking to do cross content. I find it hard to do in our present lesson plans because we have little interaction which allows us to work with other content teachers. I have seen it regularly, though, as I have subbed where content is overlapped from social studies to English, to math, to art. I really hope I can have a situation where that is prominent at whatever school I end up teaching in.
ReplyDeleteI think it is more lauded to do so these days, regardless of district, etc.
DeleteThis is a great cross content lesson. I feel pretty confident in crossing reading/writing into other content lessons, but math is a difficult one for me as well. This lesson seems really engaging for the students! Thanks for sharing this experience!
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome. I was blown away by the amount of math that was in his lesson, plus it actually met and played off of standards for proportions for the 7th grade level. I just had to share it!
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