- consult the curriculum documents,
- note which outcomes the students have been working towards successfully and which they are still working on,
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Small Group Workshop

The teacher is:
- listening to the students,
- collecting questions and asking

The teacher posts all questions so that students can spend time considering each idea.

The teacher develops a task analysis for each question identifying all prior knowledge as well as all new knowledge that the students will need to successfully reach the solution. It is important to develop several solution paths for each question as students may go about the solving the question in many different ways.

Explore

Students are:
- investigating the empty popcorn bags,
- talking with their teammates about the kinds of popcorn they like, how much popcorn they could eat, when last they had popcorn, how much popcorn at the movies costs...
- recording all of their initial questions.

Over the next couple of days students read over each question, informally discussing which ones they'd like to try and how they might go about finding the solutions.

Whole Class Workshop

The teacher is:

Explore

The students are:
- sharing their ideas about each question,
- listening to other students ideas,
- deciding which questions they would like to try.

Mini lesson We are learning to

Small Group Workshop

Plan

Research

Mini lesson We are learning to measure.

Research

Small Group Workshop

Plan

Evaluate

Field Work

Mini Lesson We are learning to draw scale diagrams.

Workshop

Calculate and Solve

Communicate

Reason

Mini Lesson We are learning to use a chart to organize our data. 

Research

Workshop

Evaluate