Co-Teaching+Grade+1+Lesson

-estimate and measure capacity Before: Which container holds the same capacity? During: How many cups would you need to fill the container? After (Practice): Which cup will you use to fill the container twice?
 * __ Co-teaching grade 1: Ms. DeSousa __**
 * Learning goal: **
 * Task Problem: **

-different cups hold different capacity -fill up the cup to the top -bigger cups have bigger capacity -capacity is how much something will hold -to co-teach effectively, we need to co-plan before -sometimes the questions in Nelson need to be tweaked to fit the learning goal -students use one to one counting when filling up container -students were able to use prior knowledge to relate to non-standard units of measure and to explain their thinking -by asking the right questions, students realize that making errors can help re-think their problem solving -the math concepts may need more than one day to be taught to the students -board space is important because it enables for a smooth transition from one activity to the next -how important it is to ask effective questions that will help students explain their math thinking and solutions to math problems and orient them to achieve the learning goal -it was challenging to use BANSHO during a measuring water activity
 * Solutions: **
 * Highlight/Summary: **
 * What did we learn? **

We used three different size containers and three different size cups; we found that the students were working with too many variables. We should have kept one variable, such as the size of the container, constant. A big concept was being introduced to the students, which took more time to explain and prepare for the actual “during” activity. We should have narrowed the “before” question to something more specific. What will be tomorrow’s lesson? We would give pairs of students the same size containers, but different size cups. This would reinforce the idea that it would take more smaller-sized cups to fill a larger container, than it would for a larger container to fill the same container. The students still need to learn that different sized containers hold different amounts of water.
 * How will we change the lesson? **