Educating Our Eagles - 11/2021
A publication of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District. Once a month we will be highlighting our students and teachers as they work together to grow and learn. The goal of this newsletter is to provide you with a window into our day-to-day experiences and an opportunity to see into our classrooms. Each day we strive to create interactive and highly engaging lessons that support and inspire all learners.
A publication of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District.
Once a month we will be highlighting our students
and teachers as they work together to grow and learn.
The goal of this newsletter is to provide you with a
window into our day-to-day experiences and an
opportunity to see into our classrooms. Each day we
strive to create interactive and highly engaging lessons
that support and inspire all learners.
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- instruction
- educating
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HIGH SCHOOL:
What is a centroid?
or How to find the center of gravity
of a triangle.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
Third Grade Math
Three Act Tasks
Mr. Schwartz’s
tenth grade Geometry
students
were taught to
mathematically
find the center of
any triangle. Student proved their findings by
balancing it on their fingers.
As a result of instruction, students will be
able to:
• calculate the centroid of any triangle.
• Find medians of the segments.
• Discover the centroid divides each median in the
ratio 2:1
Observation:
Students began to discover that one really must only find
where two of the medians intersect to find the center of
gravity since the medians only intersect at one point.
Third grade classes recently did a 3 act task that
required students to figure out how many chocolate
chips were used in a recipe. They needed
to estimate, ask questions ,and problem solve in
groups. Part way through the lesson, they were
given additional information and then expected
to come up with an answer. The students really enjoyed working
together and problem solving.
Student learning outcomes:
• problem solving
• questioning
• multiplication
• addition
• working in groups
Observation:
The students were very engaged and asked great questions.
They loved the open ended process and were able to articulate
not only what their guess was, but how they came to arrive at
their answers.
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