1. Welcome to Gifted and Talented

2. Schedule 3 rd Grade Day B 12:05-12:45

3. Materials Needed Notebook (any color) Folder (any color)

4. The Purpose of the Notebook! The notebook will be used as a reflection journal You will answer questions about the days projects and think about how you did as a team member, leader, and the math project itself

5. Goals for the Year - Work as a team - Be a leader - Create and perform Math problems - Teach others - Learn about Project Based Learning - Learn about STEAM and STEM

6. What is Project Based Learning? Let’s Discuss

7. What is STEM and STEAM? http://www.stemedcoalition.org/ http://www.ed.gov/stem Let’s Discuss

8. How to Work as a Team? Introductory Project Get into 3 groups Using materials of your choice, construct a two dimensional town. You may choose to do 3 items in your town three dimensional. You must have the following in your project. (See Microsoft Word Document)

9. Sample Reflection Journal Questions! What was your activity today? What was the learning goal for the activity today? Did you feel you and/or your group met the goal or are working towards the goal? How do you feel your group worked as a team? What do you think you could have done better in your group? What were your strengths when working in the group? *Take 5 minutes to reflect and answer the questions in your journal