Schneider Videos

When talking about sound waves, vibration, frequency, and pitch, I showed the students a video of different pitches. We cannot hear a frequency above 20,000 hertz. The video plays a freqency up to 18,000 Hz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=fFmiLHaKXhI&NR=1

I created a video which shows two different types of electric circuits and how they are different. The students made these circuits in class: a series circuit and a parallel circuit. This is a great way to review and clearify what happens for those students who didn't get their circuits to work. Also, this is a great recap for the students who were absent the day we did this in class.

Geometry Vocabulary Video

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This is a geometry vocabulary video that my fifth graders made to begin the unit. It was easy to use, and they really enjoy watching it. 

Audio Project

For my audio project, the students called in to explain how a room is heated up by convection. We talked about convection and observed a convection current in a beaker of water that was heated up on a hot plate. I put rice in the water so they could visually see the current. We talked about the process in great detail, wrote down explanations and drew diagrams. A few days later, I gave the students the audio assignment. They first said their name and then started explaining how convection works to heat up a living room.

I really enjoyed listening to the responses. Over all the kids did well answering the question. I recommended that the students would first write it out and then call in the answer. Most kids did this and it worked well. We played some of the responses in class and the kids loved it. They also loved seeing how the transcription was so different than the actual words the person used.

Some students messed up the first time, so they called back a second time to restart. The only complaint, if any, was that an "anonymous" student rapped a song about wearing pants. The nice thing is that it is easy to delete.

Schneider Audo Project

The project provided three students, of various abilities, the chance to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a journal entry. Students were asked to write a journal entry describing how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.

High Student - https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_AlJmlp33zNYSIEQc4-Fc3vAIFjaDjau6pzEUJ3Vl4eA5bbBDEVcZeNEHfmpx4-AkXiIsy8VOEe8SeoCmgEgDq_yr-ezBty3jQSJFZyT4AFaHYn8p_kkEM6gSVdkRXmc3fOMsdMzscLIjsv_q6f_CMqAuKhiQ

Low Student -
https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_AxaEigQQ_KDVzIiCHYs8aoaYTb5l9akmgKaaJicCU6I2e1A5DF-I1IcBRZl7ydRRi8HDNVXVsHSvkss9d1V9lv5xJH2kSsvGkfNJKNccb8hMXY7mGpQ8GnHIzcliaa1mhVrkfRBAce1wblC9_g0EcBUJFKuw

Mid-Level Student -
https://www.google.com/voice/fm/05119835789228360195/AHwOX_BEpxVem7kCt58kzCJAdWiUvQrWz936H5RaQ1YTwriYmKdDtWcuTcmnEU03FDURUqHyNFokvc8cni_iwsqT1boj8CmvxbJ2es_hKL2degy19Y7lJnlgftDh5g9Bnc1OcFB8ROJ31UJlE8TsIILVOpwwYDzffg

Audio Project Idea, Schneider

Six students, of various math abilities, will use Google Voice to record a read aloud of a math journal entry. Students will be prompted to write the steps of adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. Students will then listen to their audio play back.