Plan Week 8 Session 5

Week 8

Session 5

We will be asking for an extra hour with the Minecraft group. Period 2 Tuesday

Recess will be open to any students who choose to stay from the group. And the scheduled hour will be for the structured program.

 In the extra hour and recess the students will be given the opportunity to have free sand pit time or start building their project if they choose to. In our observations the students seem to be in one of two categories,

 Minecraft skilled – want to get in and use all the elements of the software

Lower skilled – need to use the program more freely to increase develop and enhance their skills.

This time is geared to give them the opportunity to do this.

Tuesday period 3 structured hour plan

Whole group task

20 mins of dictionary development - begin defining the words the groups have already identified. Write definitions for each of the words under the heading identified last week. Extension: add pictures to support the definitions. Take picture from net and Minecraft screen captures (command shift 3)

Project time – all teams will be set to task on the structures to build interactive structures as outlined in the previous week.

Team focus groups

 We will be working with one team at a time in ten minute blocks, to develop communication skills. Our aim is to enable them to relay their understandings to other students. How to relay information to others (year 3 students)

This sessions focus is:

Learn the communication skills of working as a team.

 Implementing effective delegation and responding to team leader.

 Taking direction from team mates.

Negotiating and valuing the opinions of team mates.