{"id":361,"date":"2020-08-29T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hailstonesequence.wordpress.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:14:47","slug":"1st-day-of-distance-learning-is-a-hotdog-a-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hailstonesequence.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/29\/1st-day-of-distance-learning-is-a-hotdog-a-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day: Is a hotdog a sandwich?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

@Allison_krasnow<\/a> (here’s her blog<\/a>) shared her amazing first day lesson on Twitter. I loved the idea and did it on the first day of school with my 7th graders too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feedback was overwhelmingly positive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wanted to share the materials I created, in case they are useful to other teachers. All of them are simple modifications of Allison’s creations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the lesson slides.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The card sort<\/a> on google slides. (For group work…I also used this as an opportunity to introduce the idea of having table leaders.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The desmos<\/a> link. (Used for independent think time and the cool down. )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is some of the work from my students. I would have loved to go deeper with this activity…and in actual school, in an actual classroom, it would have been much easier to push students further by asking them about discrepancies between their card sorts and their definitions. I LOVE the variety here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n