4th Grade Measurement with Tech Takeout
This year all the elementary ITRTs have been working on a special project called Tech Takeout. We look at the needs of different schools and choose a school to focus all our resources on for one fun, intensive day of learning. Today we went to Adams Elementary to help the 4th graders with measurement. I worked with Ms. Wright, another ITRT, to help students create measurement websites using CheckThis. We brought a collection of interesting items including a Samurai Jack action figure, a boxing glove, a geode, a blowfish, a piranha, a bottle of Wonder Woman nail polish, a back scratcher, and a treasure chest from Paraguay. Each student in our group chose an item to weigh, and they used a balance to measure the mass of the item. Then they headed over to CheckThis to make their website. Within CheckThis the students were able to take a picture of themselves holding their item. Below that they created a poll asking the weight of their item. At the bottom of each website the students took a second picture of themselves holding a piece of paper with the correct answer. Ms. Wright and I added all their websites to one page so the students could view each others’ websites and answer the questions. You can see all the other projects from the Tech Takeout day at Adams Elementary here. UPDATE: Later, in March, we did a similar project at Baker Elementary. Check out the measurement websites they made here. We did the answer part differently by making a link to a Google doc instead of having the answer right on the website.