Week 4: Club Content
- Ice breaker: What Scratch block am I? (5:30 - 5:45)
- Resource: Tips about blocks inside of Scratch
- Only ask one question of each person; then move on to a new person
- Talk with people outside your club and ask them what went well and what didn't on their first day
- Whole class: (5:45 - 6:00)
- First day experiences -- anything particularly well? any catastrophes? do you need to do anything differently next club?
- Pick representative from your team different from last week
- Connect to previous club: either "Similar to the previous club, we also had problems with X..." or "Unlike the previous club that experienced X, we had experience Y..."
- Attention getting techniques
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/silent-attention-getting-technique (Links to an external site.)
- First day experiences -- anything particularly well? any catastrophes? do you need to do anything differently next club?
- Homework Due at Start of Class:
- Becoming Established with Student Groups (quiz)
- Read portfolios from your club site
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Homework:
- Gather resources and record theme for clubs - DUE TODAY(per group)
- Continue personal weekly reflections
- Post weekly lesson plan after Week 2 club (per group)
- Read about PB and J (quiz)
- Read http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/new-frameworks-studying-and-assessing-development-computational-thinking and take "quiz"
- Work time with Feedback from Peer Mentors
- Figure out how to display pod laptop on pod display
- Read these tips and pick one you like (Finish by 6:15)
- http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip54.html (Links to an external site.)
- Go to another table and use your technique with them
- Prepare for next club (Finish by 6:40)
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Role play lesson OR discuss Club Tips (6:40 until end)
- If role play: Practice giving lesson out-loud to others in your team
- Use projector; make lesson as interactive and real as possible; teammates should ask/answer questions as if they are in your club
- In Canvas: State which week's lesson you role played and give brief feedback to presenter or things your group will do differently
- If Discuss Club Tips
Download Discuss Club Tips
- Structured discussion to encourage everyone to talk:
- For each subtopic (e.g., Overall Tone and Goals):
- spend about 1 minute independently reading suggestions and picking 2 suggestions that you either:
- agree strongly with and plan to follow in your club
- disagree with
- have some question about
- Each person in your group shares 1 of the suggestions (try to not repeat what others said) for about 30 seconds
- spend about 1 minute independently reading suggestions and picking 2 suggestions that you either:
- In Canvas: Record how far your group got through the Club Tips list; summarize something that you all agreed with.
- If role play: Practice giving lesson out-loud to others in your team
- Next week: Celebrate with PIZZA for all!