Egg Drib Gallery Walk

Teaching a scientific discipline cast this yr has me doing to a greater extent than projects than I've likely always done inward all my previous years every bit a math teacher.  Setting upwards projects inward an effective agency has been a definite learning curve.  

This week, my students bring been working on designing egg drib devices.  I had students interruption into pairs too brainstorm 3 possible designs given a listing of allowed materials too projection constraints.  They had to pull a motion-picture present of each blueprint too label all of the components.  

The adjacent day, I posted these designs simply about the room.  Each span of students was given a pad of gluey notes to purpose to comment on each design.  Students had to percentage an human face of the blueprint they liked too a proposition for improving each design.  This was my starting fourth dimension time always implementing a gallery walk inward my classroom. 

I bought a bulk pack of gluey notes (affiliate link) a few years ago, too they come upwards inward super-handy for an action similar this! 

This ended upwards working actually well.  Students were giving thoughtful suggestions to help the other groups ameliorate their designs.

Some groups were hesitant to participate because they sentiment this would Pb to the other groups stealing their ideas.

10 minutes later launching this activity, I had an sentiment that I *really* wishing I had had 10 minutes BEFORE launching the activity.  Since each grouping had made 3 designs, I wishing I had told the groups to rank the designs from 1 to 3 on their gluey notes inward add-on to giving written feedback.

When students were done rotating, they got their designs off the wall too read the feedback from their peers.

Each span had to attain upwards one's heed which blueprint they would hold upwards edifice from the 3 potential designs they had come upwards up with.  Then, students had to finalize their plans for the design.

I asked each pupil span to write a paragraph describing their terminal design.  Then, they had to pull how they had used the feedback from other groups to refine their designs.

I promise I structured this projection inward such a agency to brand my students mean value critically well-nigh their designs.  I estimate we'll run into how the egg drib goes tomorrow! 

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