Connie+L


 * clee15@students.towson.edu**

I am a teacher at Forest Ridge Elementary School and I currently teach fifth grade. I have taught second and fourth grades and look forward to middle school some day. This is my sixth year of teaching, since graduating from Towson University with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. My favorite subject is and always has been math, although I have really come to enjoy teaching history.
 * Bio**

Cooking is one of my favorite things to do--spending the time and care to concoct a delicious dish or meal for others to enjoy. Some days, I wish I could stay at home to have more time to cook. I would especially like to learn all my grandmother's recipes for traditional Korean dishes, but some of them take a long time to prepare. In my other spare time, I also enjoy running, doing puzzles of all kinds, playing Mario and Donkey Kong, and traveling.

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 * Learning Task #1: Universal Design for Learning**

If a Wordle was created about Web 2.0, it would include the following terms: create, collaboration, share, community, interactive, user-generated, network- or Internet-based. Web 2.0 has re-characterized the Internet and how information is shared. Moving past the individualized use of a PC desktop, Web 2.0 allows its users to interact in a way never possible before so that people are sharing and manipulating their ideas and/or creations with other users. [|Today's Meet] [|Ms. Lee's KidBlog]
 * Learning Task #2**

[|Prezi: Multiplying Decimals] [|Biteslide: Properties of Addition]
 * Learning Task #3**


 * Learning Task #4: Top 10 Virtual Manipulatives**
 * 1) [|Geometric Solids (NCTM Illuminations)] Great for introducing properties of geometric solids! The manipulative even unfolds the solid into its net, which can then lead to a discussion for finding its surface area. (6.G.4)
 * 2) [|Pan Balances - Shapes (NCTM Illuminations)] This balance manipulative can be used to find and write equivalent expressions and even solve unknowns. (6.EE.4 & 6.EE.5)
 * 3) [|Cubes (NCTM Illuminations)] Awesome manipulative that hits just about everything related to the concept of volume. (5.MD.3-5)
 * 4) [|Fractions - Rectangle Multiplication (NLVM)] The rectangle demonstrates the area model for multiplying fractions. (5.NF.4)
 * 5) [|Product Game (NCTM Illuminations)] Engaging way to have students practice multiplication, but it also encourages students to find common factors and/or multiples. (6.NS.4)
 * 6) [|Advanced Data Grapher (NCTM Illuminations)] Instead of creating and studying graphs on the traditional paper and pencil, students can create a virtual graph of various kinds using this manipulative or you can study a given set of data. (6.SP.4)
 * 7) [|Decimal & Fraction Number Lines (Glencoe)] Glencoe offers a variety of manipulatives, but their number line is one of the best I've seen out there. The number line can be set to count by decimals or fractions, which the students can even further manipulate using the pen tool. (5.NBT.7)
 * 8) [|Place Value Chips (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)] Students can manipulate place value chips to represent whole or decimal numbers. The chips can even be used to show addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. (5.NBT.7)
 * 9) [|Thinking Blocks: Ratio & Proportion (Math Playground)] Students use blocks to build ratios and proportions that represent real-world scenarios. (6.RP.1 & 6.RP.3)
 * 10) [|Volt Meter (Illuminations)] The Volt Meter helps students understand the concept of positive and negative integers and allows them to explore the result when you operate with both. (6.NS.5)

[|Mid-Year Check (Google Form for students)] [|Career Day Survey (Google Form for parents)]
 * Learning Task #5: GAFE**

[|Text 2 Mind Map: Properties of Operations] [|Padlet: Positive and Negative Numbers] [|Popplet: Surface Area]
 * Learning Task #6: Graphic Organizers**


 * Learning Task #7: Rich Tasks Incorporating Videos**
 * 1) Lesson Brief for Statistics: Any of the videos could really be used for this lesson idea, but I think The 100 Meter Freestyle video would work best because as students learn to understand and describe statistics, this video really lends itself in having students make predictions of what would happen to the data in the future with future records.
 * 2) Lesson Brief for Ratios/Rates: Again, any of the videos could be used, but I think The 100 Meter Dash would be fun to incorporate into this lesson--the students could even run their own 100 meter dash and compare their rates on double number line diagrams to each other and/or to the Olympians to really understand and appreciate how fast they are.
 * 3) Lesson Brief for Positive and Negative Numbers: In The Long Jump, they make a comparison of the jump distances to the distances of a basketball court. As marked in the video, the distance between one end of the court to the top of the key seems to be a pretty standard jump distance, therefore representing the 0 mark. Students could then make comparisons for some of the jump distances to the standard distance, using positive and negative numbers and represent this data in a diagram or graph of some sort.
 * 4) Lesson Brief for [|The NY Times: Recycle Electronics Responsibly]: This video could inspire an entire cross-curricular mini-unit. With the statistics that are given in this video and article (average phone is replaced every 18 months and approximately only 30% of what is recycled is refurbished and resold), students can explore what this would look like in one person's lifetime. This could further lead into some environmental science lessons and students could finish the project with an opinion essay based on the perspective they have gained from doing the mathematics.
 * 5) Lesson Brief for

LearnZillion v. Khan Academy: Although there are pros and cons to both websites, I prefer to use LearnZillion. I feel as though their lessons really break down the thinking process behind the mathematics and provide multiple examples to explain and represent the mathematics.
 * ~  ||~ Videos ||~ Pros ||~ Cons ||
 * ~ LearnZillion || [|Part-to-part ratios]

[|Relate positive and negative quantities] || * Common Core standard(s) listed for each video
 * each standard is nicely/detailedly broken down, gradually progressing from various conceptual representation(s) to more abstract representation(s)
 * pictures for conceptual understanding in every lesson
 * video lessons address common misconceptions
 * lesson plans incorporating videos are available
 * sets a purpose--always poses a question at the beginning that will be answered during the video
 * some videos can be translated into a powerpoint presentation || * not as friendly to navigate
 * some video lessons build upon previous video lessons; however, the video easily explains or catches the viewer up ||
 * ~ Khan Academy || [|Ratios]

[|Negative number basics] || * easy to navigate
 * videos are grouped more so in units than by individual standards
 * discussion board available for viewers to ask any questions, which are answered by other viewers
 * simpler || * Common Core standard listed for a group/unit of videos
 * not always intentional with vocabulary/terminology ||

[|Educreations: Absolute Value] [|Educreations: Division Using Partial Quotients Strategy]
 * Learning Task #8: Our Own Video Shorts**

(created via RubiStar) [|Evaluation of Verso App] (Kahoot!) [|Ratios & Proportional Relationships (Testmoz)]<span class="wiki_link_ext"> (password: leemath)
 * Learning Task #9: Assessment**

[|Mobile Apps (Popplet)] [|Web 2.0 Tool: Verso] [|Verso]
 * Learning Task #10: Projects**