Connecting to the Common Core Workshop: Grades 4-8 Moderator, Organization Panel Members, Organizations Scribe: ? Date of Presentation 1 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

Connecting to the Common Core Workshop: Grades 4-8 Overview Art Sulzer, Moderator Renee Marazon, Maritime Academy of Toledo Joe Youcha, Building To Teach Practical Examples of Maritime Related Math and Language Art Activites The Common Core Standards are being used to steer U.S. K-12 education. TWSBA members need to understand this reality and to work in the resulting environment 2 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

What are the Common Core Standards? How do they get implemented? –National Standards, State and Local Implementation –What are intended and unintended consequences that effect TWSBA members? How can “Maritime” related projects be used to meet these Math and Language Arts standards 3 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

Math Threads that run through 5-8 th Grade Standards –Operations & Algebraic Thinking –Number & Operations in Base Ten –Number & Operations—Fractions –Measurement & Data –Geometry –Ratios & Proportional Relationships –The Number System –Expressions & Equations –Functions –Statistics & Probability 4 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

Building Model Boats 5 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference Skill5 th Grade6 th Grade7 th Grade8 th Grade Multiply and divide fractions. 5NF NS.1.7.NS.2. Define and demonstrate the use and calculation of ratios and proportions 6.RP G.1., 7.RP. 7.RP.1. Identify and draw basic shapes 5.G.3., 5.G.4.7.G.2. Demonstrate and use symmetry 8.G.1. Demonstrate and use congruancy 8.G.1., 8.G.2., 8.G.3., 8.G.4. Describe, identify, and interpret the coordinate plane. 5.G.1.6.NS.5., 6.NS.6, 6.NS. 7.NS.1.8.G.8.

5 th Grade 5.G.1. Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system… 6 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

6 th Grade 6.NS.1. Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem 7 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

7 th Grade 7.G.1. Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale 8 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

8 th Grade 8.G.2. Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations… 9 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference

Language Arts 10 Port Townsend, WA ~ April 30 – May 2, 2015 Teaching With Small Boats Conference