Their Constitution

Fifth & sixth grade students, the Founding Students, just finished work they started before the break and finally voted and signed the Innovation Lab FAB Constitution. A big shout out to my friend, fellow digital coach and computer science teacher, Zak Kolar, for sharing the script that made capturing student signatures on our digital document. 

Every student in both fifth and sixth grade contributed to the creation of this document in part of our unit on "My Classroom, My Learning." Sixth grade students completed this work last year so they reviewed our FAB articles with a new lens being careful to consider our new remote and hybrid learning environments when listing and sharing ideas.

Their input was entered into a Google Form and later used to create word clouds. Word clouds show the frequency of responses in a culmination of words usually in the form of a shape, see 2 examples from our data collection below. The more frequently the word or phrase occurs, the larger the word or phrase appears in the shape. You will learn more about our work on data collection and representation in a future post.

Before each student signed this document they considered its contents as well as the ideas shared within their groups. Sixth grade students decided that no amendments were needed at this time. Although the tools they use may not be the same and they may learn differently, they believe that a positive learning environment should include and be FAB!

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