Language Arts 7

Today students were taught how to make a progress rubric by making and assessing paper airplanes.

We first discussed the process of a baby/toddler first beginning to walk.  Students created the following rubric:

Students then generated criteria to use in the creation of a paper airplane.  Next, students began designing a plane using either a set of provided instructions, or could use their own expertise or the expertise of others.

Students were allowed a test trial.

Then, students had to create their master craft, which we tested in the gym.

Upon returning to the classrooms, students began filling in the rubric criteria for beginning, developing, accomplished, and exceeding.

	Beginning	Developing	Accomplished	Exceeding
Aerodynamic ·      move through the air ·      height	little success moving through the air hits ground straight away	had some success moving through the air flies for a bit but then hits ground	flies for a while successfully keeps its height for a while then slides on the ground for a bit	slices smoothly for a long time stays on the same track flies so high it gets stuck in a tree and can’t come down
Visual ·      quality of paper ·      accurate folds ·      symmetric ·      pointed nose	poor quality paper (lined, flimsy, thin) mistakes in folds lopsided, not symmetric flat nose	okay quality paper only a couple mistakes in the folds almost symmetric nose a bit crumpled
Distance ·      how far does it fly	falls to the floor straight away	flies one metre then falls	flies 2 metres then falls	flies over 2 metres before falling
Accuracy ·      can it hit a target	does not come close to hitting the target
Pilot Behaviour

After lunch, students set up for band.  We have now officially been introduced to three notes!