After TAKS this past week I took my 8th grade Technology Systems students into their first taste of Whyville. I signed on each student to Whyville, ask each student to pass the chat test, and introduced the salary ledger with the Skater Lesson Plan. This completely filled a 45 minute class period. Faster students were encouraged to continue increasing their salaries giving me time to help the slower students.
The second day most students had raised their salary to 5 clams, so I ask each student to raise their salary to a total of 10 clams before individual exploration of Whyville. The students were very easy to manage and learning was exciting and fun. I did not have the problems that I had with my first semester students because of the introduction to the salary ledger using the Skater Lesson Plan.
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Very useful feedback for how to introduce. We can use this experience in our summer presentations.
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