Teaching 2 Grade Students How to use a Ruler nd

Teaching 2nd Grade Students How
to use a Ruler
EMPACTS Project; Clarissa Saka, Michelle Garner
Introduction
• Teaching students how to use
a ruler in a fun, innovative way
is a great approach to help
students understand their
lesson and allow them to
conceptualize the idea fully.
• We created a modern study
tool to teach 2nd grade
students that measuring can
be enjoyable and simple.
Course Content Objectives
• To further develop our own skills in order to share
ideas and better our workmanship.
• To achieve the ability to invent new ideas and teaching
strategies to help students to learn easily and quickly.
• To organize a lesson that the students will be able to
benefit from.
• To generate a study tool for students to use that is
comfortable and easily accessible for their age level.
Project Overview
We created an interactive website for 2nd
graders to serve as a technology-based,
hands-on activity in order to allow students
to feel more comfortable using a ruler to
measure objects.
Community
• This project intends to help students by giving
them the opportunity to use our study tool at any
time inside or outside of the classroom.
• Students are learning basic measuring skills while
increasing their knowledge with modern
technology.
• Any school can access the website in order to
introduce the study tool to their students.
Methods
• First, we introduced a short
lesson on using rulers to
measure in inches.
• Then, we took the students
to the computer room in
order for them to use our
interactive website for a
hands-on activity.
• Last, we asked them a set
of questions to evaluate
and rate our website.
Project Results
• Pre-lesson: the students
enjoyed using their rulers we
made for them for the initial
practice exercises.
• The students enjoyed the
kid-friendly animations and
sounds.
• The computer lab teacher
took our permission to use
our website for different
teachers and in different
school districts.
Skills Achieved
• Ability to build a
website
• Ability to incorporate
modern technology
with classic lesson
plans
• We witnessed first
hand the value of using
a hands-on activity to
teach a lesson
Technology Used
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www.wix.com
Windows XP
Microsoft : PowerPoint, Word and FrontPage
Flash
Sony Digital Photography
Acknowledgements
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Elkins Elementary School
Mrs. Bradley, cooperating teacher
Mrs. Georgia Gabbard, computer lab teacher
Dianne Philips, EAST/EMPACTS lab
Dr. Hammack, MATH Structure II instructor
Dr. A.J. Shirey, Introduction to Education
instructor
Website Link
• http://www.wix.com/mgarner1/SchoolProject