Breakout of the Ordinary:Less Lecturing and More Problem Solving
My students need the boxes, locks, flashlights, and UV pens to experience lessons where they have to accomplish tasks, solve clues, and break into their box as a group.
$306 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
We all need more students coming into our libraries. Our school library services middle school students from sixth to eighth grade and we operate on a flexible schedule. This allows us to accommodate several classes at once, individual students, and small groups of students. We are also open before school and during both of our students lunches. Students can come in whenever they need a new book, need to find resources, work on projects, in groups, need a safe place, or with their class. Between before school and just our two lunches we see approximately two-hundred and fifty students in a day. This doesn't include when we have scheduled classes.
We have a wide range of different socio-economic backgrounds in our school and we see this in the library every day.
We have many students from different ethnicities as well. Our library is a classroom where I get to see so many different students throughout the year. The amazing thing about the library is that we are able to provide lessons and resources to accommodate different languages, backgrounds, reading levels, and interests. We are able to provide resources and lessons not to just a singular class but multiple classes.
My Project
We will use all the materials funded to create lessons students can work on cooperatively together. Students will have to accomplish tasks and solve puzzles using clues to break into their box. These materials will be utilized for library lessons but will also be used in classrooms. The boxes will be set up around a theme with the object for students to work together to break into the locked box.
The library and the teachers at my school will have access to these materials for lessons to break students out of their ordinary routines.
Lessons will take approximately 20-60 minutes, depending on the theme and lesson. An example of this would be a library orientation. Our school mascot has gotten locked into the box and students must work together to accomplish tasks and solve clues to rescue our mascot. The team who can accomplish this in the fastest time will receive an award. Tasks will include getting oriented to the library, using different areas of the library, finding books, and working together. By using the materials for a library orientation, the thousand students who attend school will get to experience breaking out of the ordinary.
By using a breakout model instead of traditional lecturing, students get to use their own skills and continue practice working in groups. This can motivate students and make learning about a topic or new concept fun. We can always add a little more fun to academics.
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