Visual Aids

We had a long talk today in class about acceptable visual aids for exhibitions. :) Because this will be the final exhibition for fifth-grade, visual aids are especially important. Students are supposed to bring in their visual aids this Thursday for Milestone #3. I will not be accepting visual aids that are not students' best work.

We discussed:
- being sure to write in pencil first for posters.
-drawing light lines in pencil on posters to make sure words are straight
-making sure words are spelled correctly
-writing in the neatest possible handwriting
-using markers to trace over what was written in pencil after everything is finished

For math students need to show their thinking for the calculations they had to do on a large visual aid. I did a lot of explaining for this today in class to clarify what is expected.

For reading cereal box advertisements students need to write small or type in order to fit everything needed on the cereal box. All parts are necessary, not optional.

For social studies I will have a blank map of Michigan that students will need to use to point out all of the cities (7 total where products are made in Michigan + state capital) from the chapters (copies were sent last week).

For science students should have a large visual that relates to the question they were given.

For driving questions students need to have everything listed on their learning plans and visuals that relate (scrapbook-Amazing People, poster-Amazing places).