Creating

==Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things, designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.==

//**Example activity**// - (Space Unit) Design a new space suit. (Don't forget your name).

Language Arts - After reading __The Very Hungry Caterpillar__, by Eric Carle, assign parts to perform the story as a play. Students can take the parts of the various food items, as well as the caterpillar, leaf, etc. Students can work together to paint posters of their food item, and can rehearse the play to perform it for other classes or parents. //REFLECTION: Our class worked on the play, painted posters, learned lines, etc. It was a wonderful (and exhausting) experience, which I'm sure the children will remember for a long time. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and loved designing the posters and set. Most of them did a great job learning lines and following stage directions. Parents and other classes were invited in to watch our performance, and we received many positive comments. The only change I would make would be to allow an additional week for rehearsals before the performance. (Carol Russell)//

Using graph paper, draw 5 lines with different slopes. Exchange your paper with your partner to see if you can find the slopes of each others lines. (Angela Socorso) **//REFLECTIONS: This was a very successful and fun activity. The class really enjoyed trying to figure out the slopes of the lines created by their partners. The only difficulty encountered was the fact that some students didn't draw their lines to exactly cross at points on the axis. This made finding slope a bit more challenging. But students made estimates which were reasonable. I will definitely do this activity again.//**

Make your own personal foot ruler. (Angela Socorso) **//REFLECTIONS: The class worked on measuring their foot and creating their own ruler. They divided their foot by 12 to get the number of their personal inches. They really enjoyed making and decorating their rulers. I then had them measure objects in the room with their ruler. Most of them did a great job following directions and finding success with creating the rulers. I then had them figure out how many personal feet make a personal yard, personal mile, etc. They struggled with this. I think I would change my lesson by practicing making conversions using the standard units. Although I did spend some time on this, I don't think it was enough because most of them could not make their own personal conversions. Next time I will spend more time making conversions with standard units. I probably will also give a sample "personal foot" to show how to make the personal conversions.//** Design a hydroponics systems to grow plants. (Jay Davis)

Economics: After 3 days of selling at Mini Society, use your experience to make a Business Plan. This plan must include improvements/alterations to your product or service and any changes in cost. Be sure to include your reasons for each decision. In addition, develop a proposal which would allow you to successfully raise your price and increase demand. (Jessica Newman)

9 CP English: //To Kill A Mockingbird// Unit - Create a wikispace for the Novel. Plan categories, construct an outline, and produce a page that will be informative and helpful to next years 9th graders.(J. DeLoach)

French activity: -ir verbs- Choose an "ir verb" and create a poster illustrating its definition. Use all six subject pronouns in sentences and illustrate them. Instead of having students create posters, I actually had them create their own wiki page. I created my own page: http://hanebutt-french-irverbs.wikispaces.com/  and had them choose a verb from the list. They were to then create their own page and define and conjugate the verb, use it in six different sentences, and add any graphics that might help others to understand its meaning. At first this lesson was chaotic; we were in the computer lab in the Mod at the 9th grade academy, and we quickly found it impossible for students create usernames and log on simultaneously. I think this was a kink in the internet connection in that particular lab. I spent two periods trying to troubleshoot, and then was able to try the same lesson in a different lab for my 4th period class. That issue was resolved in the new lab, and I think that the lesson was extremely successful. Students loved using wikispaces, and were very skilled in creating their own pages. They asked me multiple times afterwards when we would be using it again!


 * 2nd Grade** - Art - //Insect Unit// - Students will work in groups of four to create a large foam board insect. Students will draw all insect parts on the foam board, cut the parts out, paint the parts and assemble the insect. (Erin Murphy)
 * REFLECETION: This activity worked very well. They worked in groups of four to create their insect. The students really enjoyed the project. When we started painting, it was easier to have only two groups paint at a time rather then all six. This made the project take about seven class periods.**

Novel: Design a power point to share your chosen character. Each slide will have an attribute that best describes your character. Make sure to include clip art, strong words, and a specific attribute with each slide. There must be five traits from the evaluation planned into the power point. "Grab my attention" and make me want to learn more about your character and even better, make me want to read __A Recipe of a Rebel.__ (Lisa A. Neeld) Creating Evaluating Analyzing Applying Understanding Remembering